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…
Two days a week, Bob Autobee has been outside the Douglas County courthouse with his signs, protesting the lack of justice in the criminal justice system. Yesterday, he was invited inside, to explain to Judge Richard Caschette why he should be allowed to tell the jury in the long-delayed trial…
Update: Wednesday, when we shared shocking details about a double-murder/suicide in which Cimmeron Johns killed his wife and mother-in-law before taking his own life, we speculated about possible charges against Rosann O’Donnell, a friend who knew about the slayings but didn’t inform police. Now, O’Donnell is learning about the price…
On Monday, a ten-year-old Parker girl did what plenty of adults have probably fantasized about doing before thinking better of it: She crashed a sports-utility vehicle into a DMV. The story made local newscasts. But now it’s gone national thanks to the Parker Police Department’s decision to release surveillance footage…
Last October, we reported about the sex-assault charges against Bojan Vuckovic and Dennis Hanson, who were accused of getting two girls drunk and violently raping them. In the end, the only conviction against Vuckovic that stuck was supplying alcohol to minors, despite shocking injuries to the young woman. Now, with…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you about the arrest of Quinton Stanley after a child in his care died; see our previous coverage below. Although the mother of the two year old had only been in a relationship with Stanley for two months or so, she stood by him…
The tragic Weld County deaths of Alisha Johns and her mom, Sheri Pachello, as well as the suicide of Cimmeron Johns, Alisha’s husband and the women’s presumed killer, may have taken place late last week, but the story may not be over. A friend of Cimmeron could conceivably face charges,…
So you think your neighbor’s a pain in the ass? If the portrait of 74-year-old Silverio Nuanez painted in a complaint filed against him by the Boulder DA’s office is accurate, he’s allowed his abode to deteriorate into such a hellhole that even the church across the street wants something…
Last June, we told you about a triple shooting at 1235 Albion that injured two people and killed one man, Gabriel Scott. Early on, Tayvon Martin, 21, was the prime suspect, but shortly after the shooting, he fled the state. Then, earlier this month, cops learned Martin was back –…
This week’s cover story, “Mind Games,” takes a look at what happens when accused killers plead insanity in Colorado — just as Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes has done. That case is still working its way through the court system; a trial scheduled for this month was postponed because…
A lot’s changed since October, when we last posted about Colorado’s twenty most wanted sex offenders. In December, a new suspect rose to number one: Roger Dale Price, age 61, seen here. But this week, both Price and Eugene Parker, listed at number sixteen, have been busted. Look below to…
Creep. Perv. Douchebag. If Denver police are right about the man seen here, all of these names and more like them apply. That’s because he’s thought to have taken photos of two young girls under the doors of a bathroom stall at a metro area King Soopers. Get details and…
