Update: More information has surfaced about the Sunday hit and run that killed an eleven year old; see our earlier coverage below. We previously knew the identity of the man said to have fatally struck the child and fled the scene: Oswaldo Lopez. But the loved ones of the victim,…
Last month, we told you about the police shooting of Blas Leroux, who’d taken a woman hostage at a local 7-Eleven. Now, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has issued a decision letter that calls the shooting justified even though Leroux was unarmed. See photos, a video, the decision letter and…
Two days a week, Bob Autobee has been outside the Douglas County courthouse with his signs, protesting the lack of justice in the criminal justice system. Yesterday, he was invited inside, to explain to Judge Richard Caschette why he should be allowed to tell the jury in the long-delayed trial…
Update: Wednesday, when we shared shocking details about a double-murder/suicide in which Cimmeron Johns killed his wife and mother-in-law before taking his own life, we speculated about possible charges against Rosann O’Donnell, a friend who knew about the slayings but didn’t inform police. Now, O’Donnell is learning about the price…
On Monday, a ten-year-old Parker girl did what plenty of adults have probably fantasized about doing before thinking better of it: She crashed a sports-utility vehicle into a DMV. The story made local newscasts. But now it’s gone national thanks to the Parker Police Department’s decision to release surveillance footage…
Last October, we reported about the sex-assault charges against Bojan Vuckovic and Dennis Hanson, who were accused of getting two girls drunk and violently raping them. In the end, the only conviction against Vuckovic that stuck was supplying alcohol to minors, despite shocking injuries to the young woman. Now, with…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you about the arrest of Quinton Stanley after a child in his care died; see our previous coverage below. Although the mother of the two year old had only been in a relationship with Stanley for two months or so, she stood by him…
The tragic Weld County deaths of Alisha Johns and her mom, Sheri Pachello, as well as the suicide of Cimmeron Johns, Alisha’s husband and the women’s presumed killer, may have taken place late last week, but the story may not be over. A friend of Cimmeron could conceivably face charges,…
So you think your neighbor’s a pain in the ass? If the portrait of 74-year-old Silverio Nuanez painted in a complaint filed against him by the Boulder DA’s office is accurate, he’s allowed his abode to deteriorate into such a hellhole that even the church across the street wants something…
Last June, we told you about a triple shooting at 1235 Albion that injured two people and killed one man, Gabriel Scott. Early on, Tayvon Martin, 21, was the prime suspect, but shortly after the shooting, he fled the state. Then, earlier this month, cops learned Martin was back –…
This week’s cover story, “Mind Games,” takes a look at what happens when accused killers plead insanity in Colorado — just as Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes has done. That case is still working its way through the court system; a trial scheduled for this month was postponed because…
A lot’s changed since October, when we last posted about Colorado’s twenty most wanted sex offenders. In December, a new suspect rose to number one: Roger Dale Price, age 61, seen here. But this week, both Price and Eugene Parker, listed at number sixteen, have been busted. Look below to…
Creep. Perv. Douchebag. If Denver police are right about the man seen here, all of these names and more like them apply. That’s because he’s thought to have taken photos of two young girls under the doors of a bathroom stall at a metro area King Soopers. Get details and…
Last month, we told you about the arrest of 85-year-old Marshall Smith in a hit-and-run that killed Leanne Hund, who was crossing a street when she was struck. It was the second fatal accident involving a driver over eighty in a matter of days. Smith has now been charged with…
From the beginning, authorities were unclear why Nicolas Ortega, 22, ran across Interstate 225 on Sunday evening — a dash that resulted in his hit-and-run death and the subsequent arrest of the alleged driver, Tashima Littleton. Days later, his family is still searching for answers even as they grapple with…
Since last summer, we’ve been following the story of Jeffrey Johnston, a veteran Littleton police officer with a lucrative side business. Turns out he was also an ecstasy dealer. Now, Johnston has been given a four-year sentence for his extracurricular activities, which derailed a promising law-enforcement career according to his…
Update:Among the most shocking crimes of last June was the slaying of Angus Gaudin, age seventeen, at a raucous camping party in Nederland. Afterward, nineteen-year-old Spencer Crawford was charged with murder amid reports that he’d been on drugs when he’d stabbed Gaudin to death amid confusion over a machete. In…
We’re learning more about Don Pooley, who held a thirteen year old hostage in Arvada yesterday. A parolee with a long criminal history, Pooley appears to have been keenly aware of his own mortality: The profile pic on his Facebook page features a skeleton holding what’s known as the dead…
In a booking photo provided to the press by the Eagle County District Attorney’s Office, Emily Anderson looks friendly, charming and benign. But she apparently has another side to her personality — one that came out last year, when she nearly beat her boyfriend to death using a table leg…
Imagine one identical twin trying to blame sex assaults on the other, because their DNA is virtually identical two — with the second one being arrested after the first pleads guilty for similar crimes. Sounds like fiction, but it’s a real story we told this past month, and we’ve got…
Back in 2012, we told you about the tragic deaths of William and Tyler Jensen, ages two and four, who succumbed in a running car while their mother, Heather Jensen, left them in a running car with the heat blasting as she smoked marijuana and had sex with a man…
The long, troubled effort to execute Edward Montour Jr. for the 2002 murder of Limon prison guard Eric Autobee, a prosecution already under fire from Autobee’s parents, who oppose the death penalty for their son’s killer, just got more complicated. A defense motion filed Monday morning contends that Montour was…
