"48 Hours" probes murder of Aspen legend Nancy Pfister

48 Hours Murder in Aspen .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-48-hours.jpg'); } December 19, 2015 / 11:00 PM EST / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Produced by Liza Finley[This story was first broadcast on March 7, 2015. It was updated on Dec. 19.]No one could believe it. Nancy Pfister, one of Aspen's true originals, was dead. She was found bludgeoned in her own bedroom -- her body bound with an electrical cord, wrapped in plastic garbage bags and hidden underneath sheets in her closet."Whoever did this really did this in an extremely horrible way. I mean, in her bed, in her sleep. I mean could you imagine?" said Mark Seal, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a CBS News consultant who calls Aspen home. "Everybody wanted to know what. Everybody wanted to know how. Everybody wanted to know why. And everybody wanted to know who." Suddenly, doors were being locked and alarms turned on. "Aspen residents wanted to know that they were safe," Deputy District Attorney Andrea Bryan said. "This was a very big deal for the community." Nancy Pfister's Aspen home And it was a very big deal for Andrea Bryan. It was her first homicide case -- her first visit to a working murder scene."I was feeling a little bit of fear," she said. "And you don't know what your reaction is going to be to seeing a dead body."It was the first time she had smelled death. "You could tell immediately -- that there was a body in that room," she said.Yet strangely, the room itself didn't look like someone had just been beaten to death."It wasn't particularly bloody. There was hardly any visible blood at all except for a small smear on the headboard, a very small smear," Bryan explained. Nancy Pfister With the death of Nancy Pfister, Aspen lost a piece of its history, a member of its royalty. In this part of the world, the Pfister family is as much a part of landscape as the trees for which this city was named. Buttermilk Mountain, one of Aspen's world-famous...