Update: Last week, we told you about a fatal stabbing on Elm Street, with the suspected killer described as having known the victim; see our previous coverage below. That turns out to have been an understatement. The dead man has been identified as Jesse James Morrison, 23 — and the…
By law, police agencies are required to let people know about the presence of sexually violent predators in their communities. At present, Denver lists fourteen of them. Below, get more information about each Denverites categorized under this designation, including photos and official SVP notification forms, which contain plenty of additional…
Rachel Neiman, a Regis University student, took no part in a suspected street race that ended when another vehicle slammed into hers. She was an innocent victim, and in the wake of her death a week later, she’s being remembered as a promising and adventurous young woman whose life was…
Among 2012’s most heinous crime was the murder of 56-year-old Beverly Liggett, whose body was dismembered, allegedly by her son, Ari Misha Liggett. On Monday, a jury found Liggett guilty, and this afternoon, he’ll be sentenced for a slaying said to have been motivated by his discovery that Beverly had…
What were the biggest federal crimes associated with Denver? The FBI has shared a history of the Mile High City’s office, complete with vivid descriptions of busts going back more than half a century. Continue to see our photo-illustrated picks for the ten most memorable, arrayed in chronological order and…
As we’ve discussed in tragic stories such as Chris Bankert’s killing of high-school sweetheart Kacey Heberlein and himself late last month, police reassurances that the public isn’t at risk following the discovery of two or more violent deaths almost always translates to a murder-suicide scenario. However, there’s a strange twist…
Last year, we told you about the belated arrest of Markie Lee Peoples — “belated” because the kidnapping and rape of a teenage girl for which he’d been busted was committed in 1995. Now, Peoples has pleaded guilty for the crime, which is detailed below via photos, an arrest affidavit…
When security guards Christina Kolk and Cameron Rust heard the first gunshot, they headed toward the north hall of Arapahoe High School. Only moments earlier, a janitor had called them on the radio, saying something about a suspicious individual at the north entrance. Three more shots erupted in the next…
Lee Riddle taught German at Widefield High School in Colorado Springs. But he’s been sentenced to jail for other lessons — ones involving contact with the genitals of his male students, allegedly via “cup checks” that allowed him to discern the size of their penis. Continue for the bizarre details…
Update: Yesterday morning, we told you about the death of a man near the Tamarac exit on Interstate 225; he’d died of a gunshot wound after allegedly passing deputies on a traffic stop too closely. (See our previous coverage below.) Now, police are reporting that Santamaria shot himself during the…
Update: Anthony Martin, wanted for strangling his ex-wife in front of their kids this past week, has been captured. The location where he was caught: Wheatland, Wyoming. Continue for a press update from Longmont Police Department spokesman Commander Jeff Satur, followed by our previous coverage. See also: Photos: FBI’s Top…
During the early hours of the morning, a man was reportedly shot near the intersection of Ohio Avenue and Shoshone Street, not far from Huston Lake Park. At last report, he’s in critical condition and the person who pulled the trigger remains on the loose. Here’s what we know thus…
Update: The Denver Police Department has released information about the ten people arrested during Wednesday’s Million Mask March, when the Colorado State Capitol was tagged with graffiti; see our previous coverage below. Continue for photos and details about charges, plus probable cause statements, booking slips, a video about cleanup efforts…
Update: The story of Stefan Sortland’s arrest, spelled out in our original post and an update on view below, just keeps getting stranger. Now, reports suggest that he was on molly at the time of his arrest (not Adderall, which he had in his possession) following a Halloween concert. Moreover,…
Earlier this year, we told you about the arrest of Meghan McKeon after the death of her three-year-old son, Austin Davis. Now she’s been sentenced to more than two decades in stir for her actions, which included leaving the boy home alone for days while she was “spending time with…
We recently told you about Jeremy Yachik, a former police officer who allegedly beat his daughter for eating carrots (as opposed to punshing her for not eating them). Now comes an equally extreme and bizarre case of abuse, this one involving Lee Kizer, who has reportedly admitted to beating a…
As is clear from this photo, Nancy Worrell had a smile more than capable of lighting up any room she entered — which only makes her murder late last month that much sadder and more tragic. The person accused of ending her life has now been formally charged with her…
Update: Yesterday morning, we reported about two assaults near Washington Park prior to the bust of a man for a separate incident who was being eyed as a suspect in the earlier crimes; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Denver Police Department has identified the arrestee as Kijana Jelks,…
According to an arrest affidavit on view below, Thomas White considered himself to be a rapper. But instead of making rap his career, he will soon start serving one for, among other things, prostituting an underage teen. And if things break a certain way, his sentence could be nearly half-a-century…
Meth was apparently all in the family for Darin Ninneman, whose mom, Lorri, is said to have regularly shared the substance with him and his brothers. In the end, however, Darin brutally stabbed Lorri to death, then fled the scene reluctantly — because he wanted to take his iPad with…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the two women murdered in an apartment at the French Quarter complex late Wednesday night as Amanda Anders, nineteen, and Nancy Worrell, 22. They died of multiple gunshot wounds. In addition (update), the Denver Police Department has released the mug shot of the…
The two women shot to death at the French Quarter apartments weren’t the only homicide victims in the metro area this week. Also slain was Robert Goldsberry, a sixty-year-old who was gunned down in the parking lot of a South Parker Road Walmart. The man being held for the crime…
