Aspen is still reeling from the murder of Nancy Pfister, a member of a famous local family and a familiar face in the community’s social scene. And equally shocking is the unlikely couple charged with the crime: Longtime Denver doctor William Styler and his wife, Nancy. The Stylers’ arrest hardly…
Update: Earlier today, we shared early information about a triple homicide in Canon City; see our previous coverage below. The more details that emerge, the more horrific the story becomes. The victims in the case were reportedly a woman and her two children — and the suspect in custody, Jaacob…
Lately, the metro area has been the setting of several high-profile hit-and-runs, with suspects including an elderly man and an alleged street racer. The latest incident is a study in contrasts. A man was struck by two drivers: one who stuck around, the other — eighteen-year-old Eliu Jiminez — who…
The Loveland Police Department is on the lookout for a man suspected of stealing an iPad and then taking a selfie that wound up on the iCloud account of the business from which it was snapped. Seems like an open-and-shut case? Well, it’s only been a few weeks since what…
After twelve years of trying to put Edward Montour Jr. to death for the murder of a Limon prison guard, it took only a few minutes late yesterday afternoon to sentence him to life without parole, after prosecutors grumblingly agreed to a plea deal that they said would provide only…
Update: Yesterday morning, we noted that three of the four inmates who’d escaped from Otero County Jail earlier in the week, but not Angel Castrejon, who’d gotten away from the same facility last year and remained at large for months. He wasn’t as fortunate the second time around. Castrojon has…
In November 2012, we told you about the arrest of William Costello, a successful real estate broker with powerful political ties, on accusations of serial rape — and the next month, he was linked to two more sex assaults. This week, prosecutors finally began laying out their case against Costello,…
Ashleigh Padilla’s Facebook page is loaded with gorgeous selfies that show her keeping up with the latest fashion trends — and recent purchases at stores such as Ulta, Victoria’s Secret and Macy’s no doubt gave her a big assist in this respect. Problem is, the Denver police believe she made…
Alan Prendergast has been reporting about Edward Montour, a prison murderer the 18th Judicial District DA’s office now headed by George Brauchler has targeted with the death penalty — a controversial effort further complicated by a changed finding in the case that landed Montour behind bars in the first place…
Update: An arrest has been made in the weekend shooting of Loveland Police Officer Garret Osilka; see our previous coverage below. Cody Powell, 23, who’d been identified as a person of interest in the case, phoned the authorities from a Loveland Walmart and offered to turn himself in. He’s now…
Stephvon Atencio’s red eyes in his booking photo suggests that he’d been crying some time before the image was snapped. Presumably, those close to an elderly Lakewood man were shedding tears, too, but for a very different reason. The man was found dead in a trailer on Saturday — after…
Even as Denver police released suspect Aaron Little in an apparent homicide case that quickly fell apart, more information was emerging about what seems to be a less debatable incident. Investigators with the Aurora Police Department are focusing on the death of a man whose body was found on a…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about the nationwide search for convicted child rapist Eric Hartwell, who’d escaped from a Denver-area facility after cutting off his ankle monitor. Earlier today, however, Hartwell was captured — but not before he put a lot of distance between himself and Colorado. He…
Update, 2:40 p.m.: Earlier today, Judge Richard Caschette issued a ruling denying District Attorney George Brauchler’s motion to delay the murder trial of Edward Montour Jr. or to bar testimony from eleven defense expert witnesses. That sets the stage for opening statements in the death-penalty case to begin on Tuesday…
Update:Yesterday, when reporting about the bust of Aaron Little for second-degree homicide (see our previous coverage below), we noted the relative dearth of details about the incident, which took place on the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. Now, we’ve got more information, and it’s sure to raise more questions about…
Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes has a new trial date: October 14, 2014. But that date, which is already a postponement from Holmes’s original February trial date, could be pushed back again. At a court hearing this morning, Holmes’s defense attorneys indicated that they plan to challenge a ruling…
They may have been dressed like paranoid beekeepers, but their foul-mouthed ways earned them a much tougher-sounding nickname: the Trash-Talking Bandits. And they’re wanted for what the FBI believes is among the biggest bank robberies in Colorado history, as well as one with a bizarre aftermath. How so? Apparently, one…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about a murder outside Aurora’s Smoky Hill Liquor store; see our previous coverage below. The victim has now been identified as Ryan Thompson, 22 — and there’s been an arrest in the case. The suspect in custody is a seventeen year old whose…
In an unprecedented move, the El Paso County Coroner’s Office has amended the death certificate in the 1997 death of a twelve-week-old infant, changing the cause of death from “homicide” to “undetermined” — dealing yet another blow to prosecution efforts to seek the death penalty for the infant’s father, Edward…
Over the years, we’ve intermittently highlighted unsolved Colorado murders listed on the indispensable Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons website. Our most recent offering appeared last September, on the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. For loved ones left behind, however, every day is a day of remembrance…
Last year’s slaying of Douglas Menjivar in Glenwood Springs was followed by lurid reports. Among the claims: Fredy Cabrera, a prominent local businessman, had shot Menjivar for going out with his eighteen-year-old stepdaughter, Leydy Trejo, because he wanted to have more than a fatherly relationship with her. Such rumors appear…
Update: Late last month, we told you about the Highway 93 crash involving Kenneth Hosch, age 83 — an incident that killed Dave Baldwin, a veteran Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office sergeant; see our previous coverage below. Now, after the better part of a month, Hosch has been arrested on suspicion…
