The Denver coroner’s office has issued its report about homicides through June 2011. The 24 to date is way over 50 percent of last year’s 39 — but even if it wasn’t, loved ones of victims such as Gerald Schwartzman would still be grieving. Look below and page down to…
One terrible morning in 2004, Peter Spitz’s wife, Teresa, took their infant son to a friend’s house, then shot Spitz in the face, blinding him, and killed his mother. Last week, after years of rehab and legal battles, the ex-Marine got a precious piece of his life back, when a…
Update: Joseph Lightfoot was originally charged with felony child abuse for a legal medical marijuana grow simply because he had three kids living in the home where he was cultivating. The count was later bumped down to a couple of misdemeanors, to which Lightfoot pleaded guilty — a decision his…
Gina Gruenwald was a former Oklahoma State softball player with a bright future ahead of her when she was brutally stabbed to death in August 2004. Nearly seven years later, Billy Jene Wilson, a 42-year-old homeless man, has been arrested for her murder — and all because he allegedly bit…
Our latest mug shot roundup gives you a look at alleged criminals both minor (the so-called Dish Soap Six, the Drunken Tractor Driver) and the major, including a woman who may have buried a child alive and a man who killed himself after a triple homicide that targeted three teens…
Charles Farrar is serving what amounts to a life sentence for sexual assault on a child — even though his accuser, his stepdaughter Sacha, came forward months after the verdict and admitted to fabricating her elaborate story about years of sexual abuse. And that situation isn’t going to change any…
Daryl Rasmussen has got to be one of the most unusual murder suspects ever — a reportedly homeless cross-dresser who went by the name of Ms. Puppy. But now, this Puppy has been caged, and Denver Police will be eager to see if they can connect him to the brutal…
Zachary Kocman, nineteen, and Joseph Murphy, eighteen, had no marks on their adult record prior to last month. But they’re currently looking down the barrel of a bias-motivated crime charge, as well as third-degree assault, because, according to an arrest affidavit on view below, they saw two men holding hands…
This weekend, the manhunt for Michael Arangio, wanted for murdering three Colorado Springs teens, brought police to a Whistler Point apartment — and after a standoff of several hours, Arangio had apparently taken his own life. Afterward, a memorial for his alleged victims was vandalized…
Denver hasn’t exactly been bloodshed free of late. Note the shocking murders of Sergeant Anthony Silva and onetime medical marijuana dispensary owner Michael “SK” Walker in recent weeks. But the body count is higher in Colorado Springs, where four are dead in two separate incidents prompting searches for suspects Michael…
Update: The Denver Police Department has released a composite sketch of a man suspected of using a stun gun as part of an attempted assault on a woman walking alone early Sunday morning. And the DPD hasn’t ruled out the possibility that the same person is responsible for another attack…
In recent days, a man robbed Gigi’s Cupcakes using a syringe he said was filled with AIDS-infected blood. In some ways, says Gigi’s owner Carrie Bach, the syringe was “actually more frightening” than if he’d come in wielding a gun. “It was a really creepy weapon to use.”…
The recent encounter involving a ten-year-old girl and her seven-year-old cousin was wrong in two significant ways. It took place in a house where Horning doesn’t live. And he was naked at the time…
Update: The man found murdered near a Motel Six on the 3800 block of Paris Street early Saturday morning has been ID’d as Anthony Silva, an army sergeant stationed at Fort Carson. He was due for discharge soon and was headed back to Illinois to visit with his family. Denver…
The arrest affidavit in the Perrish Cox rape case was released Friday, and new details have come to light that the Denver Bronco no doubt wishes had stayed in the dark forever. According to the affidavit, Cox’s accuser believes she was drugged and raped in September 2010, and DNA evidence…
Judging from the emotionally charged online comments in response to this week’s cover story, “Beyond Belief,” many Westword readers are baffled, outraged and just plain frustrated about the bizarre and tragic case of Charles Farrar — a man who’s still serving a 145-year sentence for sexually assaulting his stepdaughter Sacha,…
While the parents of Kenia Monge are still hoping to get answers about their daughter’s whereabouts from Travis Forbes, the last person known to have seen her on April 1, offers of help for Lydia Tillman, the Fort Collins woman Forbes has been charged with attempting to murder and sexually…
We’re learning more about the homicide at the Arvada location of Special Kinds, a former pot shop (and a sketchy one at that). Police confirmed yesterday that the one-time dispensary’s owner, 34-year-old Michael “SK” Walker, was shot and killed Monday night in what looks like a home invasion…
Reports about a homicide at the site of Special Kinds, an Arvada medical marijuana dispensary that officially shut down last year, remain sketchy — much like the MMC itself. In the wake of the incident, medical marijuana critic William Breathes’s Special Kinds review is even more vivid and memorable…
At around 7 p.m. last night, Lakewood Police officers rolled onto the 1800 block of Kendall Street following reports of a shooting. They soon found a fatally injured man inside a unit at the Plaza De Lago apartments — and they’re looking for three men who may be responsible for…
Charles Farrar is serving a 145-year prison sentence at the Sterling Correctional Facility after being found guilty on 22 counts of sexual abuse against his teenaged step-daughter, Sacha Bruce. Except he didn’t do any of it…
Robert Walters has been quiet, at least publicly, since he was arrested last year for murdering his girlfriend and then hiring someone to kill his wife, to whom prosecutors say he confessed the crime. But the opposite was true before he was arrested. As explained in this week’s cover story,…
