The mystery surrounding the death of Holly Lynn Moore, a 19-year-old college student found hanging in a closet in her Castle Rock apartment in 2015, just keeps getting deeper. Family members have spent months and thousands of dollars uncovering evidence that suggests Moore’s death wasn’t the suicide that it appears to be.
In the wake of his death, Aaron Tuneberg’s family set up Aaron’s Fund, which raises money to help at-risk adults live safer and more fulfilling lives.
Luke Pelham says he didn’t foresee what was going to happen the night he went to his friend Aaron Tuneberg’s apartment with another eighteen-year-old he barely knew. Pelham didn’t think it would turn tragic — not even when the other guy brought along a bat and a golf club. “If…
Just shy of two years after a pair of Denver police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car, the department for which they work has announced that they will face no discipline in the controversial case, since their actions didn’t violate policy about firing into a moving vehicle in place at the time of the incident.
Courtney Plante has taken a plea agreement in regard to attempted murder allegations against her significant other Sean Overstreet dating back to January 2016, when she was nineteen and he was 37. The deal trims time off her possible sentence but doesn’t let her off the hook for a crime against her former teacher that was as violent as it was bizarre.
Over recent weeks, there have been a series of high-profile crimes on Regional Transportation District buses in the Denver metro area, including a stabbing, an assault and a case of indecent exposure. Yet an RTD spokesman argues that despite such regrettable incidents, the district’s buses, trains and assorted properties are safe — and getting safer all the time.
A lawsuit inspired by a video in which Greg Heard, a homeless man, is tased while giving himself up to a Denver police officer is currently in the works. But Heard’s attorney, John Holland, is releasing the video prior to the suit’s filing (see it below) because “it’s a matter of public concern. It should be out there, so people can understand that they should be very, very careful when confronting police officers armed with tasers. Because they will be tased — and many people have died from tasing. It can be deadly.”
It’s taken nearly seven years to convict Javier Aguirre of killing Lyndsay Pham at Aurora’s Descano Plaza Apartments, which she co-owned and managed, even though even though police suspected Aguirre from the early stages of the investigation.
Otero County Jail inmate Jennifer Hernandez says she was sexually assaulted by a guard through the open bars of her jail cell amid a highly sexualized environment that allowed male corrections officers to routinely see her naked.
The City of Aurora has agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by fourteen people detained at gunpoint by police officers for over an hour during a clumsy search for a man who’d robbed a nearby bank while wearing a beekeeper’s suit.
Early yesterday morning, a man was shot to death outside a strip club — specifically PT’s All Nude, also known as PT’s Centerfold Show Club, located at 3480 Galena Street. Such venues have been the setting for similar violent crimes numerous times in recent years. Indeed, just last week, we reported…
Even the best skier or snowboarder has been on a chairlift and had this fleeting thought: “I could fall off this thing.” That nightmare scenario became a reality for Seth Beckton in January, when Thomas Proesel pushed the snowboarder off an Aspen Highlands chairlift after Beckton made a casual comment…
Here are some of the most notable stories that Westword has run over the years dealing with Colorado’s most infamous unsolved homicide.
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the death of JonBenét Ramsey on December 26, 1996. Many of the issues that dominated local headlines this year — including homelessness, the rising cost of housing and a steady influx of transplants, and an increasingly crazy election — were all too easy to…
When 3-1-1 operators receive complaints about graffiti, they first ask the caller: Is the graffiti profane, hateful or racist? Sonja Jackson says she has had to ask that question a lot lately. The 3-1-1 operator with the city of Denver says she saw “an almost immediate uptick in the number…
Through an open records request, Westword obtained records for fifteen years (2001-2016) on causes of death that the Colorado Department of Corrections submits to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Close to twenty percent of the deaths during that period were attributed to “end stage liver disease” or related illnesses.
Update: Last year, a series of bank robberies perpetrated by men wearing masks familiar from the movie Scream culminated in a massive manhunt for three suspects, one of whom wound up on the FBI’s ten most wanted list. All three of the suspects — Miguel Sanders, Tyrone Richardson and Myloh Mason —…
Attorneys who sued the U.S. Bureau of Prisons over alleged abuses of mentally ill inmates have reached a tentative settlement that could have a profound effect on how solitary confinement is used at the nation’s highest-security prison.
Update: In October, Tyrone Adair Jr., best known to members of the local hip-hop community as BossMan Goodie, was shot to death outside Cold Crush, a venue that was temporarily closed as a public nuisance after the incident; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced…
Early next year, Mitch Morrissey will end his term as Denver district attorney — an office he assumed in January 2005. Morrissey’s twelve years in office are among the most eventful of any DA in Denver’s history. Over that span, he earned national attention for his office’s use of DNA…
At least one cable channel is betting that the glut of JonBenét Ramsey specials three months ago hasn’t exhausted the public fascination with one of the nation’s most infamous unsolved homicides.
Comedian and Denver favorite T.J. Miller, who was born and raised in the Mile High, has had a busy past few days. Early Friday morning, according to TMZ, Miller, who is currently co-starring with Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston and plenty of other notables in Office Christmas Party, was arrested in…
