Colorado Cold Cases: Arapahoe County prosecutor takes on and solves toughest...
Photo provided by CDACSenior Deputy District Attorney John Kellner, left, with District Attorney George Brauchler. Senior Deputy District Attorney John Kellner isn’t daunted by cold cases with...
View ArticleColorado man pleads guilty to woman’s 1970 rape, murder in Utah
Provided photoThomas Edward Egley A Colorado man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a murder charge in the 1970 cold case rape and slaying of a woman in east-central Utah, prosecutors say. Thomas Edward...
View ArticleInvestigators determine who fatally stabbed 17-year-old girl in 1977 in Buena...
Buena Vista Police DepartmentAudrey Marie Elizabeth Hurtado Buena Vista police and Colorado Bureau of Investigation crime analysts have solved a 39-year-old murder mystery by identifying who fatally...
View ArticleRocky Ford man sentenced in Utah woman’s 1970 sex assault, slaying
Provided photoThomas Edward Egley PRICE, Utah — A 76-year-old Colorado man who was charged four decades after police say he fatally stabbed a 23-year-old Utah woman was sentenced Tuesday to serve 10...
View ArticleEl Paso County sheriff releases reconstruction of unidentified man whose body...
Authorities in El Paso County have released a reconstruction of an unidentified man whose remains were found 30 years ago in an area south of Colorado Springs. El Paso County Sheriff's OfficeThe...
View ArticleBurke Ramsey, JonBenét’s brother, sues CBS in $750 million slander suit
The brother of JonBenét Ramsey has filed a lawsuit seeking $750 million against CBS Corp., saying the broadcast company produced a fraudulent documentary that slandered him by accusing him of striking...
View ArticleDNA evidence helps Colorado Springs police ID dead man as being responsible...
Provided by the Colorado Springs Police DepartmentDeborah Lynn May, as shown in a photo posted to the Colorado Springs Police Department’s cold case unit’s website. Colorado Springs police say their...
View ArticleForensic evidence ties man to woman’s 2010 Colorado Springs cold case killing
Denver Post fileYong Glenn Police say forensic evidence has led them to uncover the man responsible for killing a 56-year-old businesswoman in Colorado Springs in 2010. Investigators believe Robert...
View ArticleWhy did a Colorado sheriff’s officer keep bloody evidence from a murder case...
Courtesy of Heather Hiltz via Daily RecordCandace Hiltz Rick Ratzlaff opened the abandoned Cañon City storage shed that he had just bought for about $50 and discovered more than he had bargained for:...
View ArticleArmy investigators on hunt for killer decode DNA to sketch what suspect in...
The Army has released a state-of-the-art phenotype image of a man suspected in the Colorado Springs killing a young Fort Carson soldier in 1987. Investigators used the suspect’s DNA profile to predict...
View ArticleMurder of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements remains unsolved four years later
The murder of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements remains unsolved nearly four years after he was shot to death, but investigators say the case is still open. El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder told...
View ArticleFugitive arrested in Texas for 1977 Denver murder returned to Colorado
Denver District Attorney's OfficeBenito Soto An 84-year-old murder fugitive wanted in connection with the 1977 shooting death of a man in downtown Denver has been returned to Colorado following his...
View ArticleSuspect in notorious 1995 Greeley cold case murder leads investigators to...
John Sandoval, whose first-degree murder conviction in the death of his estranged wife was overturned last year, led investigators to her remains in exchange for a plea deal. The remains of Kristina...
View ArticlePueblo police serve search warrant, excavate yard in Kelsie Schelling cold...
Kelsie Schelling Pueblo police on Thursday morning served a search warrant at the family home of Kelsie Schelling’s former boyfriend, who has long been implicated in the pregnant Denver woman’s 2013...
View ArticleMan arrested, charged in 1992 cold case Commerce City sex assault
A 57-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the 1992 cold case sexual assault of a woman in Commerce City. The Adams County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Dionicio...
View ArticleDad of man shot to death in his apartment near DU worries Denver cops will...
Courtesy photoJesus Benavidez Jesus Benavidez stayed in Denver after breaking up with the mother of his child rather than return home to Texas, because he wanted to be a father to the now 2-year-old...
View ArticleInvestigators seek new leads in murder of Las Animas woman 20 years ago
Investigators are asking the public’s help in solving a murder that happened 20 years ago this month in southern Colorado. The body of Deborah Reid was found on Aug. 14, 1997, under a bridge about 16...
View ArticleMan convicted in Denver 1999 cold case sex assault
A 52-year-old man was convicted Friday by a Denver jury of kidnapping and sex assault. Provided by the Denver District Attorney's OfficeAlbert Matthews Albert Matthews was arrested in July on a cold...
View ArticleFamilies with missing loved ones gather Saturday for resources and support
Kelsie Schelling went to visit her boyfriend in Pueblo after he asked her to come down from Denver. She never returned. Years later, her family is still looking for her. Kelsie was 19 years old and...
View ArticleArrest made in cold case murder of Arapahoe County prosecutor
A 70-year-old man has been arrested in the 1999 murder of an Arapahoe County prosecutor whose death was staged to look like a suicide. Courtesy of Arapahoe Sheriff's DepartmentRobert Williams Robert...
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