Colorado Springs Police DepartmentWilliam Dieckmann loved to drive fast. Sometimes too fast.
He liked all cars but Chevies in particular. He was a big NASCAR fan.
William Lee “Will” Dieckmann loved to work on cars and race them.
At a young age he picked up things in his father’s mechanic’s garage. As an adult he worked at the Springs Auto and Truck Service Center in Colorado Springs.
He had a natural talent for working on cars, his mother, Barbara Dieckmann, 58, said.
On weekends he liked to race a red Chevy he painted with 10. He would go to a racetrack near Pueblo. He liked competing at a figure eight race track.
Dieckmann liked to make people laugh and would sometimes pretend he was tripped up.
Dieckmann was born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. He had a daughter, Miranda, and a son, MacKenzie. The boy’s mother was his girlfriend.
His mother said he cared about other people and would do anything he could for other people. He liked to go camping in the mountains.
Dieckmann’s interest in driving fast got him in trouble quite often though. He had several speeding citations.
On July 12, 2004, Dieckmann got into the wrong kind of race with a police officer. He stole a car and tried to outrun a police officer. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
By the fall of 2006, he was living with his father.
He went out late on Nov. 28. That night he never came home.
The Colorado Springs Police Department received a phone call at 6:19 a.m. on Nov. 29, 2006. A bus driver had found his body lying next to a bench at the bus stop at Mallard Drive and Teal Court.
His body was covered with snow.
An autopsy report showed that Dieckmann had been shot multiple times in the chest.
Following his brother’s murder, John Dieckmann kept his brother’s car and occasionally he races it himself.
People with information about the case are asked to contact the Colorado Springs Police Department at 719-444-7613 or CSPDHomicide@springsgov.com.
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