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…
The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case has ordered gunman James Holmes to undergo a second mental evaluation by a different psychiatrist. Holmes was first examined last summer by Dr. Jeffrey Metzner. But prosecutors alleged that Metzner’s evaluation contained “numerous deficiencies” and that the doctor himself had an “unfair…
Last night was a particularly bloody one in the metro area, with much of the carnage taking place in a typically quiet portion of Thornton. The street in question sports the bucolic suburban name of Welby Road Terrace. Three bodies have been found, and investigators believe they represent the tragic…
During the seven months Michaelee Owen (seen here) spent in Pueblo County Jail back in 2012, he was never provided with either a sign-language interpreter or a device that would have allowed him to communicate with anyone — even his own mother. That won’t be the case for future inmates,…
Update: Last May, Routt County’s Lisa Marie Lesyshen, seen here, was arrested for the murder of Asher Lesyshen-Kirlan, her nine-year-old son. She subsequently appeared in a Denver court for an evidentiary hearing at which it was revealed that the shooting took place after she learned her husband was having an…
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation had designated the 2008 murder of Grizzly Rose security guard Timothy Minnick, seen here, as a cold case — and the process has taken years to warm up. Now, however, there has finally been a conviction in the slaying, albeit not involving the person who’s…
Yesterday’s arrest of Longmont parole absconder Kevin Denolf led to the release of his ink-splashed booking photo. It’s a memorable image — so much so that it instantly entered the list of our most memorable face-and-neck-tattoo mug shots of all-time. Look below to count down our top fifteen — and…
Yesterday, after a short chase, Denver police officers arrested three men allegedly embroiled in an extensive metro-area robbery and theft ring, with members suspected of hitting at least fifteen residences or businesses. And the spree may not be over: Cops are looking for at least two more individuals in regard…
When police officers are caught on the wrong side of the law, they don’t necessarily behave better than the people they’re accustomed to busting. That’s one takeaway from the arrest of Craig officer Eric Montes, who reportedly responded to law-enforcement contact following a boozy domestic incident by claiming to be…
Updated: On February 14, we told you about the arrest of six people as part of an alleged child-prostitution ring based in Lakewood, with members accused of luring three underage girls — including one who was just thirteen — with meth and other drugs. At the time of our original…
Update: More information has surfaced about the Sunday hit and run that killed an eleven year old; see our earlier coverage below. We previously knew the identity of the man said to have fatally struck the child and fled the scene: Oswaldo Lopez. But the loved ones of the victim,…
Last month, we told you about the police shooting of Blas Leroux, who’d taken a woman hostage at a local 7-Eleven. Now, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has issued a decision letter that calls the shooting justified even though Leroux was unarmed. See photos, a video, the decision letter and…
