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Love Crazy
The nurse, the cop, the yegg: Fate brought them together and claimed four lives. Then the newspapers stepped in, and things really got insane.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 9, 2003
Forget Kobe. Adios, JonBenét. To hell with Court TV. Crime ain't what it used to be. A place is shaped by its resident evil as much as its good, and by how the...
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Denver's Chronicler of Crime
One cop's passion became a historian's goldmine.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 9, 2003
Sam Howe loved being a Denver cop. He also loved to clip stories about crime and police work from the newspapers. Fortunately, he worked at both jobs for a long, long time....
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A Simple Case
How a drunk-driving fatality got lost in the system.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 25, 2003
Debi Drewes was in the kitchen of her Athmar Park home when she heard the crash. It was shortly after seven in the evening on September 11, 2001 -- a day already overburdened...
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Pro Boner
Auraria's effort to offer students "free" legal services cost plenty and ended badly.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 11, 2003
As an aspiring attorney-to-be, William Safford figured he'd found the ideal job at Auraria's Student Legal Services. The 23-year-old Metropolitan State College of Denver...
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Toxic Shock
Starting a meth lab takes little skill or cash. The cleanup is another story.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 4, 2003
Randy Goin remembers his first visit to a methamphetamine lab six years ago. It was the beginning of a long and disturbing chemistry lesson. A Thornton narcotics detective...
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The Death of Innocence
The police say Krystal Voss shook her son hard enough to kill him. The evidence says something else.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 31, 2003
An accident. A terrible accident. That was the first story told about how Kyran Gaston-Voss got hurt. The baby fell. The baby hit his head. It was an accident. That's the...
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Ten Ways They Got It Wrong
Critical issues overlooked by prosecutors.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 31, 2003
In pursuing a murder case against Krystal Voss for the death of her son, Kyran, the prosecutor and police in Alamosa may have disregarded critical evidence and developed a...
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The High Cost of Free Speech
RTD pays a six-figure settlement for muzzling its own directors.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 31, 2003
Jack McCroskey is a man of many opinions -- some pungent, some pure acid. Take, for example, these barbed appraisals from his recently self-published book, Light Rail and Heavy...
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The Law Firm of Smith & Wesson
Other employees at her office were packing. So why did she get canned?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 10, 2003
Depending on your job, there could be fifty good reasons to bring a gun to work. If you happen to work in a law firm, make that a hundred. The top five: 5. Compare muzzle...
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Cowboy Justice
They ran the toughest cellblock in the most dangerous prison in the state. It was the perfect place to beat inmates.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: June 26, 2003
The seven men sat around the defense table Tuesday afternoon, murmuring quietly to each other and exchanging hearty good-luck handshakes with their attorneys. The tension was...
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The Long Road Home
Why so many parolees go back to prison, and how a new approach could help turn them around.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 22, 2003
"Welcome to the John Inmann Work and Family Center. Welcome home." Mario Salinas stands in a cramped conference room, studying the faces of the eight men and one woman...
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The Revolving Door
Some parolees face a run-on sentence.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 22, 2003
Atif Gamal can open the door or close it. Either way, he loses. If he keeps the door closed, the walls start to close in on him. His room at the 11th Avenue Hotel is not much...
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Busting a Cap
As the economy sags, Berthoud's tough stance on growth comes under fire -- again.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 8, 2003
It's spring. The birds are singing, the bees are strumming their little guitars, and in the petition-happy town of Berthoud, the locals are headed for another special election,...
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Female Trouble
A guard's acquittal, new leadership -- and more allegations of misconduct at YOS.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: April 24, 2003
Former guard Duane Coleman got to go home. Embattled director Brian Gomez got a new job. And the teenage girls of Colorado's Youthful Offender System got a change of scenery --...
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A Lasting Tribute
Finding the right words for a Columbine memorial.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: April 17, 2003
Four Aprils ago, as investigators strung yellow crime-scene tape and boarded up bullet-riddled windows around Columbine High School, snow began to fall -- a wet, heavy spring...
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Coup de Condo
The battle for Cedar Pointe has turned into a tempest in a Tea Party.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: April 10, 2003
Looking back, Sharon Kratze says, she should have asked more questions. When she decided to run for the board of the Cedar Pointe Condominium Association, she thought she was...
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From Locusts to Limos
By Alan Prendergast
The rise of the Tea Party
By Alan Prendergast
Published: April 10, 2003
When the Tea Party first burst on the scene in Glendale five years ago -- in response to Mayor Joe Rice's effort to impose new restrictions on strip clubs -- the group was...
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Prisoners of Sex
Colorado's costly program for violent teens was supposed to turn these girls around. Instead, they got turned out.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: March 6, 2003
The night her roommate was raped, Angel Castro says, she had a ringside seat. She was in the upper bunk when the bed below her began to shake. The man who came into their room...
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Leave the Driving to Bill
When special interests collide over auto insurance, consumers feel their pain.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: March 6, 2003
It isn't that the governor of Colorado hates you soccer moms out there. He just thinks you people shouldn't have the right, when some drunk driver plows into the family...
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Bruce Talk
The father of tax limits offers a radical diet for lean times.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: January 30, 2003
At first glance, the Golden Corral on the north side of Colorado Springs doesn't seem to be the right place to be talking about tightening the ol' belt a few notches. Patrons...
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