The more we learn about Evan Ebel, the man thought to have murdered pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado prison boss Tom Clements, the more disturbing is the portrait he left behind after taking a bullet in the head at the end of a Texas police chase. Now, a letter…
Last week, Michael Chavez was murdered near the 1600 block of Bryant Street; at this writing, no one has been arrested or charged for the crime. Now, there’s been another fatal shooting not far away — near 26th and Bryant, according to the Denver coroner’s office, which has identified the…
March in Colorado crime was dominated by Evan Ebel, who’s thought to have murdered pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado Department of Corrections executive director Tom Clements before being gunned down in Texas. But he was far from the only person whose booking photos rose to the top of the…
Last week, we shared the prison records of Evan Ebel, the man thought to have murdered pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado prison boss Tom Clements. But while references in the documents (on view below) to guard-punching and feces smearing may have grabbed the most attention, another word was more…
Update: After DA George Brauchler announced at today’s Aurora theater shooting hearing that he plans to seek the death penalty against James Holmes, Judge Carlos Samour turned his attention to defense attorneys’ desire for Fox News reporter Jana Winter to reveal sources who gave her information about a notebook the…
We don’t tend to think of mid-morning as a likely time for homicide. But that’s when a man was stabbed to death on Saturday in an Aurora cul de sac. At this writing, a suspect who was taken into custody shortly after the incident has yet to be identified. But…
If it was intended as an early April Fools’ Day joke, it wasn’t a very funny one. On Saturday night, vandals splashed green paint on the Big Blue Bear, the symbolic mascot of the Colorado Convention Center, and of Denver tourism in general — if you don’t count DIA’s demon…
The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case has agreed to hear oral arguments on Monday about whether Fox News reporter Jana Winter should have to testify about her unnamed sources. But he is requiring Winter to travel to Colorado, despite the fact that her attorneys requested she not have…
Update by Melanie Asmar: Was James Holmes’s court filing stating that he was willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty a publicity stunt? That’s the allegation being made by prosecutors in a response to Holmes’s filing (on view below). The filing, they wrote, “appears to be an attempt…
Just a couple of weeks ago, we noted that Edwin Ernest Rivera Gracias, suspected of committing a brutal murder in Jefferson County circa 2011, had been added to the FBI’s updated Ten Most Wanted list. Gracias didn’t stay there long, however. He surrendered to the FBI in El Salvador and…
There have already been several weird twists in the story of David Reathman, 65. And don’t bet against more of them popping up before the final chapter is written. Unfortunately, the end has already come for Reathman’s wife, Barbara, age seventy, who was found dead in her Golden home on…
Update: Evan Ebel is dead, but the investigation into his suspected murder of pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado Department of Corrections boss Tom Clements goes on, and it’s making more ripples nationally than at any point since the news broke. As the Colorado Department of Corrections released his prison…
Update: Earlier today, we told you about a murder on the 1600 block of Bryant Street; see our previous coverage below. Now, the identity of the victim has been released, albeit a bit prematurely. The Denver Police Department sent out a news release without the name of the man, but…
In July, we told you about Greeley high school teacher Rhonda Eisenberg’s arrest for sexual assault in a case involving what was at the time an underage student. Eisenberg subsequently pleaded guilty in the matter, and she was sentenced yesterday. But the resolution of the case was complicated by two…
Update: At a news conference moments ago, a Denver Police Department spokesman identified the woman arrested in a fatal hit-and-run that took place yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of 13th and Kalamath as Latoya Nelson, thirty. The victim in the case has also been ID’d. He was Charlie Herrera, 85,…
In recent days, members of Colorado’s general assembly have been battling over legislation intended to outlaw the death penalty in Colorado. Yesterday, however, the proposal failed in the House Judiciary Committee. This development distressed the Colorado ACLU; see the group’s statement below. But it was good, or at least positive,…
Attorneys for Fox News reporter Jana Winter, who reported that Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes sent a notebook “full of details about how he was going to kill people” to a psychiatrist, are fighting to postpone a hearing at which she has been subpoenaed to testify about where she…
Family members of the victims in several mass murders, including Columbine and the Aurora theater shooting, are calling on the federal government to establish a protocol for a “national compassion fund” that would ensure that any money donated in the wake of a tragedy goes directly to the victims. “Our…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you that Warren Watson had been captured in Idaho after being named a person of interest in the slaying of Lakewood family attorney Claudia Miller; see our previous coverage in its entirety below. Now, a grand jury has named Watson in eighteen charges, including…
March 22 was a brutal night — snow, sleet, chilly temperatures — and no doubt mom Zama Bee Khan wanted to get her two kids, Za May, eight, and Ah Zet, six, out of the cold and into the warmth. But she never got the chance. As she crossed the…
Earlier this month, we told you about a reported sexual assault of a man in Capitol Hill by two still-unknown male assailants. Afterward, a reader argued that the case had gotten so much attention because the victim was male, whereas incidents of women being raped in Capitol Hill happen frequently…
Update: The tale of Evan Ebel, the man shot during a gun battle with law enforcers in Texas on Thursday (see our previous coverage below), seems to grow stranger with each passing day. Hours after Ebel was taken off life support, as evidence that he had killed both pizza-delivery man…
