citations article_title name court
n ° 98-cr-1149 -lrb- colo. dist . -rrb- peggy hettrick murder case
 people v. masters district court , larimer county , colorado , u.s.
peggy hettrick murder case

the peggy hettrick murder case concerns the unsolved 1987 death of peggy hettrick in fort collins , colorado .
timothy lee `` tim '' masters enlisted in the navy following a high school career plagued by police accusation of murder when he was a sophomore at fort collins high school .
after eight years in the navy , he was honorably discharged .
masters worked for learjet as an aviation mechanic until 1997 , when he was arrested for the murder of peggy hettrick .
he was charged and convicted of the hettrick murder in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole .
his sentence was vacated in january 2008 when dna evidence from the original crime scene indicated that he was not the responsible party .
three years after his release from prison , masters was exonerated by the colorado attorney general on june 28 , 2011 .
to date , no one else has been charged with hettrick 's murder .
