Howard Morton

Gone, Not Forgotten

A Cold Case Frozen in Time

Until this cold case heats up, Sharon Skiba is lost in limbo.

Strip Search

Jennifer Marcum's path ends and begins at Shotgun Willie's.

Student Aid

CU is keeping tabs on Colorado's cold cases.

A Cure for the Common Cold Case

Greg Tyner is a man on a mission.

GETTING HIS DIGS IN

OUTSPOKEN EVERGREEN UNDERTAKER AND REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPER RON LEWIS HAS TWO KINDS OF CUSTOMERS: COMING AND GOING.

GET OFF MY CLOUD

PLANS TO PUT A "LEARNING CENTER" ON MT. EVANS LEAVE SOME FUMING.

Is the death penalty worse than life in the hole?

Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent fund ... More >>

Nails were bitten in yesterday's death-penalty vote

A Flickr photo Yesterday, I predicted that the Colorado Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the death penalty in the state wouldn't be a nail biter, Senator Morgan Carroll's suggestions to the contrary. But her command of math proved far superior to mine. In the end, the measure fell just one vote s ... More >>

How victim rights became a juggernaut shaping spending, laws and the future of punishment

A Flickr photo Yesterday, I predicted that the Colorado Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the death penalty in the state wouldn't be a nail biter, Senator Morgan Carroll's suggestions to the contrary. But her command of math proved far superior to mine. In the end, the measure fell just one vote s ... More >>

Colorado's cold case backlog: 1,518 murders still unsolved

M. Weaver​This week's cover story, "The Victim Lobby," delves into the growing power of the victim rights movement and the sometimes clashing agendas of groups within that movement. But there's one issue crime victim advocates strongly agree about: The pile-up of unsolved homicides over the ... More >>