Most burglaries are committed with a motive of stealing things. But that apparently wasn’t the case when it came to a home in Jefferson County. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the burglars who broke into a residence on the 8700 block of South Jellison Court sometime between April…
At first, the cause of death for Oklahoma’s Joshua Foster and Zach Moore in northern Colorado last year appeared to be a vehicle fire. But further investigation suggested that they’d been murdered, with the fire presumably set to cover up evidence of the crime. And now, months after their passing,…
On the day after Christmas in 2011, as we reported, father-of-five Youn Malual was murdered in an incident that shattered the local Sudanese community. More than four years later, Brandon Jackson — the first of five men thought to have been responsible for the slaying — has been found guilty…
Just what did Colorado taxpayers get out of the Justice Review Project, a four-year program that required state prosecutors to review more than 5,000 criminal cases, in search of possible wrongful convictions? The result was one exoneration through DNA testing — the only case in which DNA was tested at…
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on The Colorado Independent, whose Susan Greene has written definitive work about the case of Clarence Moses-EL; he served 28 years in prison for a 1987 rape case to which another man has confessed before the convictions were lifted and he was granted a new trial last…
We’ve been reporting about the murder of Pam Candelario in Walsenburg, a small community in southeastern Colorado. Her husband, Ralph Candelario, was charged with the crime despite an elaborate tale in which he claimed that intruders had broken into the couple’s home, killed Pam and roughed him up before he could…
It was one of the most shocking and brutal allegations of early 2015. And now, Joseph Romero, the man at whom the finger was pointed, has admitted it was true. Romero has admitted guilt in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, Phenia Martinez, when she was eight months pregnant. The acknowledgment…
A strange child custody case that originated in Massachusetts ended, at least temporarily, in Colorado. The child, a ten-month-old girl, is currently with family living in our fair state. But we don’t yet know the legal fates of her parents: Katelyn Monteiro, whose arrest for assaulting a police officer prompted a…
Last night, a vigil was held for Dion Damon, who was killed by a Denver police officer on Tuesday, April 12. A Denver Police Department spokesman now acknowledges that Damon wasn’t armed at the time he was shot to death by Officer Jeff Motz, a 22-year law-enforcement veteran. DPD maintains…
Let’s make one thing clear from the jump: David Batty hasn’t been charged with murder after a dead woman’s body was found inside a trunk in his apartment. Not yet, anyway. He’s currently being held by authorities in Weld County on parole violations. But investigators are looking closely at Batty…
Last week, we told you about the murder of a motorcyclist in a Denver alley. The victim has been identified as Aurora’s Scott Breitinger, 45. Breitinger is being remembered at a service tomorrow evening. In the meantime, there have been no arrests in the case nor any release of suspect…
In March 2014, we told you about the arrest of Thomas LaPerch for the murder of William Burchett, a longtime local musician he met via a Craigslist ad. Now, just over two years later, LaPerch has been found guilty of the crime. According to the First Judicial District DA’s office,…
“I’m about to do something stupid,” Colorado Springs’ Patrick Orozco reportedly said on one fateful night in November 2014. And he was right. Orozco has now been convicted of doing something very stupid, and very deadly — murdering Eugenio Solorio-Gomez, a former lover of the girlfriend who’d just given Orozco the boot…
New documents have been released in Robert Dear’s attack on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood office, which killed three people and injured twelve others. The search warrants and affidavits, on view below, reveal unequivocally that Dear was motivated by anti-abortion fervor For example, he’s said to have fantasized about being…
As we’ve reported, this Christmas will mark twenty years since the murder in Boulder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. Yet the fascination with the still-unsolved slaying refuses to dissipate. As evidence, consider the huge splash made in February by Internet speculation that JonBenét didn’t die — and she’s actually singer Katy Perry…
More than half of the 23 booking photos included in our most memorable mug shots gallery for March are related to each other. Allegedly through a heroin ring. Danielle Sciortino, seen above, is one of fourteen people busted in what authorities in northern Colorado say was a large-scale smack operation…
After midnight this morning, two people were shot outside My-Bar, a venue in Aurora. One of the people injured is said to be in critical condition. Yet neither of the victims is reportedly cooperating with investigators. First official word about the incident came via this Aurora Police Department tweet: Followup…
In late 2014, we told you about the arrest of Chataignier McCaffrey-Pickett, a then-21-year-old who became the fifth and final person arrest in relation to the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of Fort Collins’ Andrea Bartmess. McCaffrey-Pickett’s final Facebook post before being taken into custody didn’t directly address the case, but…
Last year, we told you about the death of Justin Burns, a fourteen-year-old from Palisade who was accidentally killed while hunting on the Grand Mesa, located on Colorado’s Western Slope. The shooter, Minnesota’s Guy Pohto, was charged in the incident, and Burns’s family has filed a lawsuit against him. Now,…
Last month, we told you about a Park Hill shooting that killed a man and injured a woman. Initial details were scarce, but the gang unit was reportedly on the scene. Weeks later, more information has emerged. The man killed was Tarell Burton, eighteen — and a young father, as…
Our Thomas Mitchell recently reported about a petition to ban all marijuana businesses in Pueblo County. Against this backdrop comes word about two busts of illegal marijuana grows in the jurisdiction — events that could become politicized by both supporters and opponents of the ban. The incidents resulted in the…
When the fourteen-year-old girl woke up unclothed in bed with Isaias Villa, twenty, he insisted that he’d taken care of her — not taken advantage. His DNA told a different story. Villa has now been charged with sexual assault against the teen — although it took nearly a decade to…
