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MURDERED: Oakey "Al" Kite

When Oakey “Al” Kite is brutally murdered in his own home in the spring of 2004, investigators rushed to find his killer. But when they finally identified a suspect, he seemed to vanish without a trace.
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38m
Broadcast on
01 Sep 2025
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When Oakey “Al” Kite is brutally murdered in his own home in the spring of 2004, investigators rushed to find his killer. But when they finally identified a suspect, he seemed to vanish without a trace. 

  • If you know any information about the murder if Oakey “Al” Kite please contact Detective McDonald at the Aurora Police Department at 303-739-6013.
  • Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is also offering a reward of up to $2,000 for tips. You can call them at 720-913-7867 or visit their website at Metro Denver Crime Stoppers to leave an anonymous tip.

Click HERE to listen to Oakey “Al” Kite – 9 of Hearts, Colorado, Part 2. 

 

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Hi, crime junkies, Brit and I are off this week, but I am not going to leave you hanging. I wanted to bring you a case that is easily in my top five for keeping me up at night. I mean, not since we talked about Israel Keys has a predator unnerved me so much and this guy still isn't caught, at least not yet. I did two episodes on this case for the death and when I covered it, I know there was some DNA stuff happening and that might mean that a solve is to come in the near future. If and when that happens, all anyone's going to be talking about is this case. So I want to make sure you're in the know ASAP and more importantly, I want this story to get as far and wide as possible because a crime junkie out there might have be one tiny piece of information that law enforcement is waiting for. So check out this episode of the deck and reminder, I put out new episodes of the deck every Wednesday, wherever you listen to podcasts and the deck is now included in the crime junkie fan club app, where you can listen to all of our episodes, add free. And by the way, the deck is even the only show we've added. If you haven't been there in a while, you can now find multiple shows from our network like dark down East, counterclock and more. Now there is so much to today's case that I actually had to separate it into two parts like I was saying. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you the first part right here and then you can listen to part two right now by searching the deck in any podcast player or you can listen add free to part two in the crime junkie fan club. I'm going to have a link to that in our show notes, but this is the story of Okey Al Kite. Our card this week is Okey Al Kite, the nine of hearts from Colorado. There are certain cases that I obsess over. The ones that dig their way under my skin and keep me up at night or just pop into my head in the middle of the day unannounced banging on my conscious demanding answers. And the 2004 case of Al Kite is one of those. This case is the definition of a mystery. And for over 18 years, investigators have looked at this case from every angle trying to track down an elusive killer, but they have been stumped at every turn. However, technology is changing and investigators hope that that means their luck is changing too. I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. It was mid morning on Monday, May 24th, 2004. When a man named Philip was just realizing that one of his employees, Al hadn't come into work. They both worked in the office of a construction company in Aurora, Colorado, and Al was never late. He'd been in accounting for years and took a lot of pride in his job, so his absence stuck out like a sore thumb. Even to his other coworkers, who after a few hours started to worry too. At some point that morning, they decided to go ahead and call his landline just to check on him and make sure that he was okay. But no one picked up. They tried his cell phone next, and this time someone did answer, but it wasn't Al. The man on the other end said that his name was Joe and he had the phone because he found it on top of a payphone in the neighboring city of Denver the night before. It was at that point that Philip was convinced that something was wrong with Al. The guy on the other end of the phone, Joe, offered to meet up with Philip and give him the phone if he wanted.

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When Oakey “Al” Kite is brutally murdered in his own home in the spring of 2004, investigators rushed to find his killer. But when they finally identified a suspect, he seemed to vanish without a trace.