CO CO - Oakey 'Al' Kite, 53, Aurora, 22 May 2004

[geojeffrey]

Genetic genealogy offers the best hope for solving this case; hoping and praying they are hard at work tracking down this dangerous psychopath!!

 

[DetectiveAficionado]

Praying this case gets solved and justice for Oakey gets served! Made an account on the Forum just to bump this post, this is one of those cases that just sticks with you. Hoping 2025 is the year they put that animal behind bars!

 

[Janitor101]

Blood coagulates very quickly so RC would need a fresh blood sample always at the ready if his real intention was to hoodwink detectives by leaving a fake blood drop on the basement steps.

Is it possible he worked as a lab technician/nurse at the hospital in the area he most frequented where he could easily steal blood samples?

(my gut feeling is that the blood drop was from RC himself).

 

[dotr]

• By Spencer McKee Jun 11, 2025
• COLD CASE: Brutal killing of Colorado homeowner has ties to mysterious renter | OutThere Colorado
• 
• ''While on Oxygen television show The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes, an Aurora police detective stated that it was believed the torture of Al Kite lasted for hours, also saying “some of the injuries were things I’d never seen before. Like a knife into above the eye, into the ears, down through the shoulders, just a crazy amount of torture.”

''The few witnesses who saw Cooper described him to authorities as a white male in his 40s or 50s, about five-foot-ten and between 170 to 180 pounds. It was also said he walked with a limp and used a cane, possibly having a Romanian accent, too.''

''Holes suggests that bruises on Kite's feet could have been evidence that a torture method caused falaka was conducted – a type of foot-beating that has ties to southeastern Europe. This detail coupled with the Romanian accent and the specific way that Kite was tied up were used by Holes to support this thought – that a Turkish Hezbollah member fled Europe and immigrated to the United States after the disbanding of the group, continuing signature torture practices in the Denver metro area with Al.''

 

[maamager]

No updates as far as I'm aware... Bumping for Al, as he was on my mind this morning

 

[AlexFromnic]

Blood coagulates very quickly so RC would need a fresh blood sample always at the ready if his real intention was to hoodwink detectives by leaving a fake blood drop on the basement steps.

Is it possible he worked as a lab technician/nurse at the hospital in the area he most frequented where he could easily steal blood samples?

(my gut feeling is that the blood drop was from RC himself).

You make a good point about the blood but I don't believe it is quite that difficult. It was just one drop. I know for a fact blood in a syringe can keep from hardening and stay in liquid form provided there is no air pocket in the syringe. This is similar to how paint is. If you seal the can it stays liquid if it is exposed to the air it drys very quickly.

We would have to think if that blood drop was planted how would it be transported? I can only imagine a syringe. Unless this guy is a phlebotomist or nurse I would also wonder how he could safely get a blood sample without being suspected. Can you imagine asking someone for some of their blood?

It is interesting how much the suspect tried to decieve by faking an accent/limp and cleaning the scene. All this being said transporting a drop of blood would be next level.

I think its important to remember that sometimes the most likely answer is correct. I think the drop of blood was almost certainly the perps. But by all means yes let's not get tunnel vision. Honestly though I'm not sure where other than the DNA sample to focus on. Im trying to think about it now but the DNA seems to be the path forward even if for some strange reason it was a planted sample because then we have another likely witness bare minimum but more realistically its the perp.

 

[JaneGaGa]

Super longshot but this guy on Interpol (the eyes!) or another wanted on Interpol:

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[geojeffrey]

Super longshot but this guy on Interpol (the eyes!) or another wanted on Interpol:

View Red Notices

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www.interpol.int

He is super creepy looking, but would have been 16 in 2004.

 

[Lisbeth_S]

You make a good point about the blood but I don't believe it is quite that difficult. It was just one drop. I know for a fact blood in a syringe can keep from hardening and stay in liquid form provided there is no air pocket in the syringe. This is similar to how paint is. If you seal the can it stays liquid if it is exposed to the air it drys very quickly.

We would have to think if that blood drop was planted how would it be transported? I can only imagine a syringe. Unless this guy is a phlebotomist or nurse I would also wonder how he could safely get a blood sample without being suspected. Can you imagine asking someone for some of their blood?

It is interesting how much the suspect tried to decieve by faking an accent/limp and cleaning the scene. All this being said transporting a drop of blood would be next level.

I think its important to remember that sometimes the most likely answer is correct. I think the drop of blood was almost certainly the perps. But by all means yes let's not get tunnel vision. Honestly though I'm not sure where other than the DNA sample to focus on. Im trying to think about it now but the DNA seems to be the path forward even if for some strange reason it was a planted sample because then we have another likely witness bare minimum but more realistically its the perp.

- Blood in a syringe indeed coagulates quite quickly regardless of presence/absence of air. The contact with the syringe itself triggers one of the pathways of the coagulation cascade (if there is no anticoagulant in the syringe). Other changes also occur in the blood cells. So if the sample was stored and then planted the lab technicians would be able to detect changes in cells, presence of anticoagulant, etc and realise pretty quickly that the sample is not fresh. Source Source 2

- My understanding is that the eastern european accent was real since DNA phenotyping traced his ancestry back to southeastern europe.
I don't remember where I read that genetic genealogy so far have traced some relatives in the same area of southeastern Europe but nothing has come of it yet. I need to find that article again.

Hopefully more will come soon.

This case is horrendous and I can't help but think that this perp has done it before and/or after.

 

[Marziaforevercherry]

Just was thinking about this case the other day . I really hope it can be solved . This was so disturbing .