There has been an arrest in the case of a Longmont transient who was found dead in 2006.
On Feb. 24, detectives from the Anchorage Alaska Police Department arrested John Michael Angerer on a Boulder County Sheriff’s Office warrant for the 2006 murder of Angela Wilds.
On June 4, 2006, hikers discovered the badly decomposed, naked body of Wilds southwest of Lyons in the South St. Vrain Canyon. Wilds was a transient woman who had most recently lived in Longmont.
During the investigation, officers collected male DNA from items found at the crime scene, and on Jan. 22, 2009, they were notified of a preliminary match to John Angerer, who was in custody at a correctional center in Palmer, Alaska. In March 2009, investigators traveled to Alaska and collected additional DNA samples from Angerer.
On Feb. 24, investigators with the sheriff’s office issued an arrest warrant for Angerer’s arrest with a bond of $1 million. Authorities in Alaska executed the arrest warrant at the Anchorage Corrections Complex, where Angerer was in custody on a probation violation charge. Angerer’s extradition from Alaska is pending.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation can contact Det. Brian Zierlein at 303-441-1681.
