After almost 40 years, blood on a victim’s glove IDs the killer

The same day that Annette Schnee and Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer went missing from Breckenridge, Colorado, a man is rescued on a mountain pass. Decades later, police tie him to their murders.

Jeff Oberholtzer told “48 Hours” he knew something was horribly wrong when his wife, Bobbie Jo, didn’t come home the night of Jan. 6, 1982. The next day, he found some of her belongings, including a bloody glove and a tissue, strewn on the side of a highway outside of Breckenridge, Colorado, not far from where they lived.

At the time, no one knew the DNA from this evidence would be critical to solving the mystery of her death  — and that of another young woman – almost 40 years later. 

Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer goes missing

Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer was a free-spirited 29-year-old who had recently moved to Colorado. She and her husband Jeff settled in the town of Alma, around 30 minutes south of the popular ski resort of Breckenridge.

On the evening of Jan. 6, 1982, Bobbie Jo called Jeff, saying she was out for drinks with friends in Breckenridge and would be home soon. Bobbie Jo frequently hitchhiked, as did many people at that time, and told Jeff she would get a ride. But she seemingly vanished around 7:50 p.m. after leaving a local pub

When she didn’t make it home, Jeff went to the police, but was told it was too soon to file a missing person’s report. 

Alarming items found at a ranch

The next morning, a rancher rang Jeff and told him that he found Bobbie Jo’s driver’s license and some of her other items in his driveway.  Jeff headed to the ranch and, on the way, found Bobbie Jo’s backpack, and that bloody glove and tissue in the snow.

A group of friends then set out to search for Bobbie Jo on the snow-covered Hoosier Pass, between Breckenridge and Alma. Bobbie Jo usually took this route home.

A gruesome discovery

The group of friends, on cross-country skis, found Bobbie Jo’s lifeless body lying off the…