# Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/
- Also known as: Henrietta Dietemann and her son
- Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2905, -104.4047 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Henrietta Dietemann and her son, about five, were killed and scalped while her husband was in Denver; her daughter, sister-in-law and a farmhand escaped. Their bodies were shown in Denver (News, Sept. 2, 1868; von Ahlefeldt p. 24).

## Where it was

Scott's X 'Dietemann Massacre Aug. 27, 1868', just west of Comanche Creek: Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet). 'Henrietta Dietermann and her son … killed near their house on Comanche Creek' (Weekly News, Sept. 2, 1868, S-0097).

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

## Nearby

- [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 5.1 mi northwest
- [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 5.2 mi northwest
- [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 5.9 mi east
- [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 6.0 mi southeast
- [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 8.6 mi southwest
- [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 8.9 mi south

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.