Steven Pankey, listens to testimony on the first day of his trial in Weld County District Court, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2020, in Greeley, Colo. A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl says he didn't know her or her family before she vanished and denied any involvement in her disappearance. Pankey was a neighbor of Jonelle Matthew and her family at the time. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP, File)
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Man denies involvement in '84 disappearance of Colorado girl
Pankey said in court that he pretended to know information about the case out of bitterness for police and for his former church and former employer