Why so much gun crime? Ask the shooters

Three Colorado professors wanted to know more about gun violence in America — the social and cultural forces driving illegal gun use, how criminals view their gats, how they use them and why. So they did something few criminal justice researchers have ever bothered to do. They asked the thugs…

Mile High Murder, No. 2: Remembering Leigh Landskroner

Last week, Broomfield Police officers killed Blair Kepler, 58, after he fatally shot his wife, Leigh Landskroner in their presence. The memorial service for Landskroner, whose family spoke about her love of animals and kin in a Daily Camera profile, took place on Friday. The Broomfield Enterprise also published a…

Colorado Crimes: Authorities on the lookout for a penis

Flashing: What a bad feeling — especially if you’re the one being unexpectedly confronted with a closeup view of genitals you really didn’t want to see in the first place. According to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, a young man has been waving his package around in serial fashion: once…

Colorado Crimes: Welcome back, Ronald F. Thrasher

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ronald F. Thrasher, formerly of Colorado Springs, has been on the run for the past fourteen years. That’s not entirely true: He’s probably rested a time or two since 1995, when he fled custody before he could be sentenced for assorted drug- and gun-related…