Gov. Jared Polis agrees to review petition seeking outside DNA testing in...
Gov. Jared Polis’s office has agreed to review a new petition calling on the Colorado governor to transfer decisions involving DNA evidence in the unsolved JonBenét Ramsey case from the Boulder Police...
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Windy Point Jane Doe identified as missing Washington woman decades later,...
Susan Hoppes, a 45-year-old woman who was reported missing from Peirce County in Washington in 1993. Her remains were found in Montrose County. (CBI-Montrose County Sheriff’s Office) The Montrose...
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After 41 years and a false confession, a Colorado woman’s true killer is...
Sylvia Quayle The long search for justice in a 1981 cold-case murder in Cherry Hills, derailed first by a false confession and more recently a mistrial, ended this week with the conviction of a suspect...
View ArticleTrial begins in case of missing California college student Kristin Smart
SALINAS, Calif. — The man last seen with Kristin Smart, the college freshman who vanished from a California campus 25 years ago, is on trial more than a year after he was arrested on a murder charge...
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Judge sentences killer to life for 1981 murder in Cherry Hills Village: “You...
Sylvia Quayle Exactly 41 years to the day after Sylvia Quayle’s body was discovered in her Cherry Hills Village home, a judge sentenced her killer to life in prison. A jury convicted David Dwayne...
View ArticleJury finds Steve Pankey guilty of 1984 kidnapping, murder of Jonelle Matthews
GREELEY — A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate was convicted Monday of kidnapping and killing a 12-year-old Greeley girl who went missing nearly 40 years ago. Jurors found Steve Pankey, 71,...
View ArticleMan gets life in killings of 2 women outside Breckenridge in 1982
DENVER — A man convicted of killing two women who disappeared near a Colorado ski resort town nearly 40 years ago after DNA testing identified him as a suspect was sentenced on Monday to two terms of...
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Former Denver Post journalist Kirk Mitchell remembered as “a dogged...
Kirk Mitchell relished making sense of a mystery. It’s no secret how the longtime Denver Post reporter earned himself the nickname Kirk “Cold Case” Mitchell following years of dedicated coverage of...
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Douglas County sheriff asks public for information in 43-year-old murder case...
Douglas County Sheriff's OfficeJames “Jim” Ihm (Courtesy Douglas County Sheriff’s Office) The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit is seeking public assistance in resolving the 1981 murder of...
View ArticleA fake name, a pornographic video and a murder: How a confession in a 1988...
Thirty-six years ago, Denver police found Edward Chase dead in his living room. The 53-year-old man had been stabbed 11 times, beaten and strangled in his home at 1328 S. Acoma St. His hands were bound...
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