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Crime investigators say they believe Laszlo Boszormenyi was the victim of a random shooting by a local robber near Kremmling, Colo. His sister and former colleagues, however, say they think he was targeted by a Cold War spy, The Denver Post reported Monday.

Whatever the outcome, "This could be one of our last chances to develop evidence in this case", said Matt Harmon, a court investigator.

Agents from the then-Naval Investigative Service -- now Naval Criminal Investigative Service -- and Grand County sheriff's investigators concluded Boszormenyi's Jan. 29, 1981, slaying was a robbery in which the killer lifted Boszormenyi's wallet holding more than $1,000. He was driving from San Diego, where he was stationed, to Omaha, where he was enrolled in an intelligence course.

Harmon said, he doesn't think a spy would wait until Boszormenyi got to Colorado, then shoot him along a highway as school buses whizzed by.

But the victim's sister, Margaret Hill, said the theory that a stranger spent hours getting to know her brother before killing him in a random robbery, didn't sound plausible to her.

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