References to 24-year-old CU Boulder student Merissa Hirneisen on the university’s website are impressive. She’s listed as an international affairs major, and she served as a student assistant for the 2013 Conference on World Affairs (her LinkedIn profile says she handled this task from 2009 to 2014) and an assistant editor for Occasions…
We recently shared video showing the jailhouse death of Michael Lee Marshall. The homeless man, who suffered from symptoms associated with paranoid schizophrenia, choked on his own vomit after being restrained by Denver deputies in a November 2015 incident the city coroner’s office has labeled a homicide. It’s a shocking…
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, attorney Darold Killmer said that the office of District Attorney Mitch Morrissey sent them multiple discs containing video showing Michael Marshall’s death in city custody last November. Killmer, who represents Marshall’s family, said he expects the DA’s office will be releasing footage to the…
It’s among the most bizarre attacks on a public figure in recent memory — the broad-daylight stabbing of Denver Fire Department Chief Eric Tade while he was sitting in his SUV at a busy intersection. And while Tade has been at the center of controversy in recent years — critics…
Yesterday, we told you about the death of Conifer’s Kelsey Hauser. The 25-year-old former bartender at Red Rocks was shot and killed while riding in a stolen car that became the target of a police chase in southern California, as was a pit bull also inside the vehicle. The car’s driver,…
Earlier this month, we shared Denver Police Department statistics showing that crime in the city was up in seven of nine categories, including homicides, which jumped an alarming 72.4 percent over the previous year. There were fifty homicides in Denver during 2015 — and it didn’t take long for the…
The Colorado Department of Corrections is confirming that Aurora theater shooter James Holmes has been moved from San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo, where he’d been housed since a transfer from the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. What officials aren’t saying is where Holmes is now — but it could…
Seth Beckton was almost to the top of the Loge Peak chairlift at Aspen Highlands on Sunday when he says that a comment he made to the skier sitting next to him caused the stranger to throw him off the chair. Beckton was uninjured after he fell into a pile…
At times, life sentences can seem excessive. Take the case of Katina Smith, mother of Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, who got life for her connection to a cocaine ring operated by her mother, even though Katina didn’t actually deal any drugs. President Barack Obama commuted her sentence after…
Onetime Conifer resident Kelsey Hauser’s Facebook page offers no clues about her sad and violent end. The gallery is filled with benign portraits that find her capturing the scenery around her Colorado home or Southern California, as well as shots in which she cuddles with puppies. But this weekend, she…
Denver Public Schools has come to a decision regarding East High student Elhadji Samba Dioum following closed-doors expulsion hearings last week. Dioum’s future in the school system had been uncertain since he was at the center of a lockdown that occurred on East High’s campus on December 3. Today it…
A just-released report on the 2013 Arapahoe High School shooting faults the school administration for failing to share information about troubled teen Karl Pierson, performing an inadequate threat assessment after Pierson declared that he wanted to kill a teacher, and ignoring other serious red flags in the months leading up…
A caption on the Facebook photo of 32-year-old Ramone Lonergan seen above reads, “I took this picture the day Ramone was free! Now I am posting this as a symbol of his eternal freedom. This is him in heaven with all his and our loved ones that have left! I…
Alex Perez, 24, was arrested early this morning in Georgetown mere hours after an Amber Alert was issued in Michigan regarding him and his two children — Nova and Luna, ages four and three, respectively. The kids are safe and Perez is in custody — and suspected of committing a…
Last week, Sienna Johnson, sixteen, was charged as an adult in an alleged murder plot at Mountain Vista High School. Another sixteen-year-old girl was also arrested in the case, and in recent days, her attorney, Dagny Van Der Jagt, attempted to distance her from Johnson, writing in a statement that…
Mateo Martinez has been brought home to die. Doctors don’t expect him to recover from effects of a subdural hematoma he suffered as a result of a beating that took place in October — a condition that reportedly went undiagnosed for six weeks. Authorities know who pummeled Martinez: Doug and Stacy…
It sometimes seems as if gangs are better armed than the police. And based on the arsenal seized in conjunction with the arrests of three Denverites described as self-admitted gang members, there’s a reason for that. The bustees are Mychael Thomas, 29, Deondrey Brandon, 21, and Jasirii Thomas, twenty. They…
Last week, we shared journal entries, poetry and more from Sienna Johnson, the sixteen-year-old charged as an adult in an alleged murder plot at Mountain Vista High School. Another sixteen-year-old girl has also been arrested in the case, but her name has not yet been made public — because representatives…
Samantha Benavidez, 23; Chelsey Gallegos, 25; and Sean Muniz, 22, died in a single-car crash back in August. So why are Investigators asking for possible witnesses of the crash or the circumstances surrounding it to come forward nearly five months later? They’re not giving specifics — but speculation centers on…
Interest in Powerball leading up to the next drawing, on Wednesday night, January 13, is reaching frenzied proportions thanks to a jackpot that’s currently being estimated at $1.4 billion — and could go higher. But even as excitement builds, an investigation into a lottery rigging scheme that prompted an indefinite…
During March and April of last year, we told you about a new Denver Police Department program to share information about sexually violent predators on YouTube Since then, the DPD has continued to post new videos about offenders known as SVPs, under the theory that more people can be reached…
In July, we told you about the bizarre story of Paul Patton, a detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department. And while we didn’t originally designate him as our Schmuck of the Week, the honor is a perfect fit. Patton was arrested on suspicion of charges that included attempting to…
