Update: The Denver coroner’s office has now identified the woman killed in an incident at 1080 South Eliot: Crystal Crespin, 32. The cause of death: a stab wound to the thorax. Roberto Santistevan has been arrested in the case. Look below to see our earlier coverage…
Update: A trio of recent incidents involving police impersonators in the metro area prompted composite sketches from Aurora and Jefferson County, but not immediately from the Denver Police Department. Now, however, the DPD has issued its likeness, and while it doesn’t look much like the others, the cops haven’t ruled…
The parade of death this weekend, which began with ten-month old Adam Gonzales and followed with the gunshot slaying of David Hubbard continued with the early Sunday homicide of Byron Parker, 29. At this point, the Denver Police Department is providing only the barest details about the incident on the…
The death of ten-month-old Adam Gonzales on Friday morning was only the beginning of what was arguably the bloodiest weekend in Denver this summer, with three homicides taking place on Sunday. The first took the life of David Hubbard near the intersection of 33rd and Grape…
Nestor Vasquez, 64, has been charged with solicitation of prostitution — but not simply for propositioning a woman in hooker pumps and thigh-highs on the side of a road. No, he’s accused of targeting undocumented women — and among the treasures he allegedly offered in exchange for a little of…
Late last month, Denver Police circulated a composite sketch of a man who may have used a stun gun in a South Broadway attack on a woman. The cops have now arrested Clifton Ray Williams for the crime, and there’s no denying he bears an amazing resemblance to the illustration…
Update:Hours after Kimberly Powell, 48, was busted following the death of her toddler granddaughter, Amber Enard, she was released from custody pending further investigation and completion of the Denver coroner’s report — which was initially inconclusive, and could take weeks to wrap up. That leaves us with the grim clues…
It allegedly took two drunk drivers to kill Alan Dilley. The tow-truck operator was on the scene of an active DUI-crash investigation when he was struck and killed by a car piloted by Zachariah Dobler, who was reportedly drunk at the time. Criminal records show that was nothing new for…
The Denver coroner’s office has issued its report about homicides through June 2011. The 24 to date is way over 50 percent of last year’s 39 — but even if it wasn’t, loved ones of victims such as Gerald Schwartzman would still be grieving. Look below and page down to…
One terrible morning in 2004, Peter Spitz’s wife, Teresa, took their infant son to a friend’s house, then shot Spitz in the face, blinding him, and killed his mother. Last week, after years of rehab and legal battles, the ex-Marine got a precious piece of his life back, when a…
Update: Joseph Lightfoot was originally charged with felony child abuse for a legal medical marijuana grow simply because he had three kids living in the home where he was cultivating. The count was later bumped down to a couple of misdemeanors, to which Lightfoot pleaded guilty — a decision his…
Gina Gruenwald was a former Oklahoma State softball player with a bright future ahead of her when she was brutally stabbed to death in August 2004. Nearly seven years later, Billy Jene Wilson, a 42-year-old homeless man, has been arrested for her murder — and all because he allegedly bit…
Our latest mug shot roundup gives you a look at alleged criminals both minor (the so-called Dish Soap Six, the Drunken Tractor Driver) and the major, including a woman who may have buried a child alive and a man who killed himself after a triple homicide that targeted three teens…
Charles Farrar is serving what amounts to a life sentence for sexual assault on a child — even though his accuser, his stepdaughter Sacha, came forward months after the verdict and admitted to fabricating her elaborate story about years of sexual abuse. And that situation isn’t going to change any…
Daryl Rasmussen has got to be one of the most unusual murder suspects ever — a reportedly homeless cross-dresser who went by the name of Ms. Puppy. But now, this Puppy has been caged, and Denver Police will be eager to see if they can connect him to the brutal…
Zachary Kocman, nineteen, and Joseph Murphy, eighteen, had no marks on their adult record prior to last month. But they’re currently looking down the barrel of a bias-motivated crime charge, as well as third-degree assault, because, according to an arrest affidavit on view below, they saw two men holding hands…
This weekend, the manhunt for Michael Arangio, wanted for murdering three Colorado Springs teens, brought police to a Whistler Point apartment — and after a standoff of several hours, Arangio had apparently taken his own life. Afterward, a memorial for his alleged victims was vandalized…
Denver hasn’t exactly been bloodshed free of late. Note the shocking murders of Sergeant Anthony Silva and onetime medical marijuana dispensary owner Michael “SK” Walker in recent weeks. But the body count is higher in Colorado Springs, where four are dead in two separate incidents prompting searches for suspects Michael…
Update: The Denver Police Department has released a composite sketch of a man suspected of using a stun gun as part of an attempted assault on a woman walking alone early Sunday morning. And the DPD hasn’t ruled out the possibility that the same person is responsible for another attack…
In recent days, a man robbed Gigi’s Cupcakes using a syringe he said was filled with AIDS-infected blood. In some ways, says Gigi’s owner Carrie Bach, the syringe was “actually more frightening” than if he’d come in wielding a gun. “It was a really creepy weapon to use.”…
The recent encounter involving a ten-year-old girl and her seven-year-old cousin was wrong in two significant ways. It took place in a house where Horning doesn’t live. And he was naked at the time…
Update: The man found murdered near a Motel Six on the 3800 block of Paris Street early Saturday morning has been ID’d as Anthony Silva, an army sergeant stationed at Fort Carson. He was due for discharge soon and was headed back to Illinois to visit with his family. Denver…
