More than four decades after a 29-year-old man was found stabbed to death in an irrigation ditch outside Severance, the Weld County Sheriff's Office is renewing its call for anyone with information to come forward. Alex Casimiro Morado's body turned up on October 25, 1983, near County Road 74 and County Road 27, and no arrest or resolution in his case has been publicly announced.
The sheriff's office marked the anniversary of the discovery by urging the public to share any details they may have about the killing, according to a Weld County Sheriff's Office post on Facebook. That post lists Morado's death as having occurred on October 23, 1983, in Weld County, and also notes that no photograph of him is currently available to accompany the case file.
Investigators have said that Morado had been stabbed to death, according to crimesolverscentral.com, which describes his body as having been located in an irrigation ditch near County Road 74 and County Road 27. The site also states that an investigation by the sheriff's office followed the discovery, though the public case materials reviewed do not identify a suspect, a motive, or any additional details about how the killing unfolded.
Conflicting Accounts of the Timeline
Exactly how the final hours before Morado's death played out depends on which account is consulted, and the two differ on both the date and the sequence of events. The sheriff's Facebook post places the stabbing on October 23, 1983, while a separate account from Colorado Cold Case Files describes Morado as having been with a group at Bruce's Bar in Severance on October 22, 1983, after which, the account says, an argument broke out on Weld County Road 74, roughly five miles east of Eaton, once the group had left the bar.
Neither version has been reconciled in the materials reviewed, and it remains unclear whether the bar gathering and the roadside argument described by Colorado Cold Case Files are the same events referenced in the sheriff's October 23 timeline or a separate sequence altogether. What is consistent across the accounts is the eventual discovery of Morado's body two days later, on October 25, 1983, in the irrigation ditch near the two county roads.
Case Remains Open Decades Later
The renewed appeal places Morado's name among the unsolved cold cases the sheriff's office continues to revisit on significant anniversaries. The case file attached to the agency's post identifies it as a WCSO Cold Case Anniversary listing for Alex Casimiro-Morado, flagged specifically because no photograph of him has been located for the record.
Anyone with information about the murder is asked to contact the Weld County Sheriff's Office tip line at (970) 304-6464 or email [email protected]. More than 40 years on, investigators are still hoping that a long-dormant detail, a conversation half-remembered, or a name someone has carried quietly since 1983 might finally surface and move the case forward.
