Russell Clark was 24 years old when he was killed.
He had a job at the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver.
Russell Clark had married Valerie a few months earlier.
Three weeks earlier they had spent their first Christmas together as a married couple.
A picture of the handsome young man shows Christmas stockings hanging from a mantle behind him.
It was late at night January 15, 1983 when there was a noise at the apartment door of Russell and his wife, Valerie.
Neighbors later told police that they heard an argument next door at around 9 p.m.
Valerie would tell police that a man she didn’t recognize burst into their small apartment and attacked her husband.
Valerie dashed around the fighting men and ran to a neighbor’s door to get help.
Police were called. There was a gunshot.
Valerie returned to find her husband, 24, with a single gunshot wound to the chest.
If you have information that could help solve Russell Clark’s homicide, please contact Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-2000.