The cab careened across a lawn on the 1100 block of Jasmine Street.
Martin A. Miley, 38
Courtesy Denver Police Department
It tore bark off of a tree and flattened a street sign. Neighbors heard a loud crash.
Only then did the Zone Cab stop.
Cab driver Martin A. Miley was found slumped over the steering wheel.
Police theorized at the time that the killer stole money from Miley following the crash and ran away, but neighbors did not see the suspect.
Police did not release the amount of money that had been taken in the robbery.
“But cabdrivers who ‘work the bells,’ that is, pick up and deliver passengers from door to door, say it couldn’t have been very much,” Ensslin’s story says.
The 38-year-old cab driver was rushed to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
He had a gunshot in the back of the head, according to news reports.
Miley had received a late-night dispatch to pick someone up on Glencoe Street.
It was the last known contact with him before he was murdered, according to police records.
It was the evening of Dec. 6, 1993, 20 years ago.
Miley had only been working for the cab company for five months at the time and it was his first job as a taxi driver, according to a Rocky Mountain News article.