Local authorities focused on other leads, and soon a witness came forward, claiming to have seen a yellow 1951 Mercury on the bridge around the same time that Adolph Coors disappeared. The story riveted the nation nearly 50 years ago from Adolph Coors IIIs disappearance to the discovery of his body in a dump south of Denver seven months later to Corbetts arrest in Canada in 1960. The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was among its first guests, and celebrities like Will Rogers, Jean Harlow and Mary Pickford would soon follow. Was it an accident? A man once sought more urgently than any outlaw since John Dillinger. Corbett lay in bed, motionless. Coors Says Autopsy Results Show Mouse In Can Short Period Of Time - AP NEWS A few years earlier, Coors had suffered an attack of influenza, and hed been advised to visit Virginia to build up his strength. The resort grew slowly, and its isolation was part of its allure. Further analysis of a shoulder bone confirmed that Adolph Coors had been murdered. [4] Due to international obsession with the case, including a picture of Corbett in an issue of Reader's Digest, he was recognized by two neighbors in Vancouver, BC, and was arrested. From left: Adolph Coors III; authoritieswith Jefferson and Douglascounties search an area nearSedalia where Coors remainswere found; Jefferson Countysheriff s officials examine Coors station wagon; Joe Corbett in aprison uniform in July 1979. A prison escapee who came to Colorado and murdered the head of the Coors brewing empire in a botched kidnapping. He became the chief suspect, and the FBI obtained a fugitive warrant and placed him on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. During the resort areas second season, the railroad company opened the Virginia Beach Hotel, which expanded and reopened four years later as the Princess Anne Hotel. For days leading up to the crime, Corbett's car, a yellow Mercury, was seen in the area as he cased the route Coors drove every morning. That new information went out across Canada, and on October 29, 1960, a Vancouver police officer reported a similar vehicle parked outside of local motor inn. The business practices of Coors werent the only legacy he left behind. With the ongoing unification wars in Germany, Coors decided to flee, stowing away on a ship headed for America.