Tomorrow, Jacob Garcia will appear in court to answer charges leveled by the Denver DA’s office. They are: first degree murder and child abuse resulting in death. Seems Garcia was watching his girlfriend’s year-and-a-half old son and something went wrong — terribly wrong. Garcia told authorities it was all a…
You knew Richard Heene had to have a helluva nerve (or severe brain damage) to even attempt to pull off his now-infamous October stunt — insisting that his son, Falcon Heene, was inside an inflatable silver chef’s hat that floated away from his Fort Collins home. But even the guilty…
Murders were down within Denver’s city limits last year — but the homicide roundup released by the Denver Coroner’s Office yesterday remains a grim roster of pain and death. Below, find an accounting of all 45 homicides totted up by the DCO last year, complete with basic information the victims,…
View Larger Map The hard-boiled tale seems straight out of a gripping detective novel: Last night, just a few hours after Denver City Council discussed new regulations for the city’s flourishing dispensary industry, a man was shot dead from what the cops are saying was a medical-marijuana transaction gone awry…
Former UNC professor Vance Fulkerson once taught a class called “Self-Defense Singing” — and among the folks from whom his students needed protection was him. In July, Fulkerson was charged with sexual exploitation of children related to a video system set up in (eeesh) his bathroom. Nine more counts followed…
View Larger Map We still don’t know the name of the seventeen-year-old male arrested in connection with a January 3 homicide near 4th Avenue and Utica Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). But the Denver Coroner’s Office…
View Larger Map That news about Denver’s murder decrease in 2009 rings hollow in the face of recent bloodshed. There have ben eight homicides in the metro area since December 22, and three in Denver proper between January 1 and today, including an early hours shooting that reportedly involved a…
View Larger Map Update, 3:51 p.m.: A juvenile has been arrested in connection with this crime. Get more information after the original item… More irony in news that the falling 2009 murder rate in Denver. This is the seventh blog we’ll publish today about a homicide in the metro area…
As noted in our first Mile High Murder No. 59 blog, murders in Denver proper were down in 2009. Unfortunately, though, the first homicide of 2010 took place mere hours after the start of the next decade. The incident took place on January 1 at 1434 North Lipan Street. Although…
View Larger Map There are more questions than answers thus far in the death of a woman found dead on December 30 in a Sixth Avenue West subdivision — an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Contacted this morning,…
Homicides aplenty took place in the waning days of 2009, as is clear from our reports about Mile High Murders No. 59, No. 60 and No. 61. The 62nd victim? Michael Canada, 55, who was reportedly killed in his Edgewater home, at 2547 Harlan Street, by James Alan Clark, 49,…
View Larger Map More holiday-season cheerlessness: a December 29 murder at the Riviera Motel, 9100 East Colfax Avenue — an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The victim in the shooting was identified as Kendrick Anthony Williams, 25, and…
View Larger Map Another Aurora homicide took place on December 22 in addition to the killing of Eleanor Joann Sears, 75, allegedly at the hands of her own daughter. The victim in the second incident was found in an alley near the 2500 block of North Joliet Street, an area…
View Larger Map This morning’s Denver Post leads with a report about the decline of Denver’s murder rate in 2009, mirroring a national trend. But that hardly means slayings have become rarities in the metro area. Indeed, there were several during the last two weeks of the past decade, and…
Last time I checked, Aspen was still nominally associated with the rest of Colorado. But its legal system sometimes has about as much to do with what happens elsewhere in the state as, well, the microstate of Liechtenstein has to do with Madagascar–not much. And that’s plenty of reason for…
You may not remember Brian Bonsall, and that’s okay, because the former child actor doesn’t remember much either, at least when it comes to the night of December 5, when Boulder police say he hit his best friend repeatedly in the face with a broken stool. On Monday, Bonsall, who…
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without the annual appeal from John Ramsey for help solving the 1996 murder of his six-year-old daughter, JonBenét. Check out the latest announcement on his Fair Justice Foundation website and this video. Ramsey is asking “everyone to examine their consciences” and to “share any…
We’ve chronicled the story of disgraced One Lincoln Park developer Erik Osborn, who was accused of stealing from partners such as “Dealing Doug” Moreland and talk-show host Tom “Lou from Littleton” Manoogian, in a May feature article and a series of blogs accessible here. The latest development? Osborn has been…
Keeping a dog alive doesn’t seem like such a difficult task, but every once in a while a very dumb man discovers a new way to kill one. A while back, it was Quincy Vanderbilt, who left his dog in a closed-up car while his girlfriend tried out for American…
This time of the year is all about family. But that’s not always a good thing. Denver Police Department reps were called after an infant was checked into an area hospital with terrible injuries. Next step? DPD arrested the child’s parents, Travis Anderson, 26, and Crystal Eccleston, 27, for investigation…
The attempted armed robbery at The Healthy Choice Wellness Center yesterday was followed by lots of misinformation. For instance, Channel 7 initially reported that three people were transported to an area hospital with unknown injuries. But according to Denver Police Department spokesman Officer Joe J. Ramirez, the only person hurt…
There have been nine bank robberies in the Denver area this week, three each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. With developments like this, it may seem like Colorado is getting overrun by stick-up artists — and, in actuality, that’s more or less the case. According to FBI Community Outreach Specialist…
