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Murder suspect known as the Hammer Killer arrives in Colorado decades after...
Alex Christopher Ewing, the man accused of bludgeoning four victims to death with a hammer three decades ago, has arrived in Colorado, where he will face charges in the cold case killings. The Nevada...
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Alleged Hammer Killer appears in Jefferson County court as victim’s family...
A man suspected of using a hammer to bludgeon four people to death in Colorado was advised Tuesday of the charges he faces more than three decades after the alleged crimes. Alexander Christopher Ewing,...
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Florida sheriff wants new leads following Netflix series “Tiger King”
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida sheriff is asking for new leads in the disappearance of the former husband of a big cat sanctuary owner featured in the new Netflix series “Tiger King.” Hillsborough County...
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DNA testing identifies suspect in 1963 cold case of 16-year-old killed at...
Colorado Bureau of InvestigationMargaret “Peggy” Beck Advances in DNA technology allowed Jefferson County investigators to crack a 56-year-old cold case and identify a suspect in the killing of a...
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Boulder County Sheriff’s Office solves 1970 rape and murder case
Betty Lee Jones (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office) The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said DNA evidence has identified a man who died in 2019 as the person who likely raped and murdered a 23-year-old...
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“She is someone, she is no longer our Jane Doe”: Douglas County authorities...
A young woman whose body was found in 1993 near a makeshift camp in the forest of Douglas County has finally been identified, the sheriff’s office announced Thursday. Now, the search for the person or...
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Weld County DA to make “major announcement” in 1984 disappearance and death...
Jonelle Matthews Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said he will make a “major announcement” at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the 1984 cold-case disappearance and death of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews....
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Colorado “Hammer Killer” suspect won’t face death penalty in 1984 slayings
The man accused of bludgeoning four people to death in Colorado with a hammer in 1984 will not face the death penalty. Alexander Ewing, 60, instead faces life in prison with the possibility of parole...
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“Someone must know something”: Denver police ask for help to solve state...
Denver Police DepartmentTrooper Thomas Carpenter Forty-seven years ago on this day, a Colorado State Patrol trooper was shot to death in his patrol car — and the killer was never caught. Denver police...
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Guest Commentary: I’m an innocent man who was on death row. Abolish the death...
I am a lifelong conservative Republican whose faith in the criminal justice system was shattered by my near-death experience with it. I came within nine days of being sent to the gas chamber for a...
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Arrest made in 1982 deaths of two young women near Breckenridge
A Colorado man is in custody in connection to the 1982 deaths of two young women near Breckenridge. Alan Lee Phillips, 70, of Dumont, was arrested for investigation on murder charges in the killings of...
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“Hammer Killer” suspect to stand trial 37 years after slaying of Aurora family
A lifetime ago on a Sunday night, Connie Bennett taught her 7-year-old granddaughter to pick out a melody on a chord organ, an early birthday gift she’d nabbed from a thrift store for the girl, who’d...
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Defense in “Hammer Killer” trial says multiple attackers carried out Aurora...
Family photoPolice say DNA evidence links Alex Ewing to the 1984 murders of three members of Bruce and Debra Bennett and their 7-year-old daughter Melissa, left. Only 3-year-old Vanessa, at right,...
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Jury finds Alex Ewing guilty in 1984 “Hammer Killer” murders of Aurora family
An Arapahoe County jury on Friday found Alex Ewing guilty of murder in the horrific 1984 killings of a 7-year-old girl and her parents in Aurora — an emotional moment of justice nearly 40 years in the...
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“Just trying to get control”: A Colorado woman’s quest for closure after...
On a frigid January night in 1984, Kim Rice woke to a flash of pain and sat up in bed to see a stranger’s silhouette, his arm raised to strike another blow with a hammer. She screamed, and the stranger...
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Nearly four decades after Greeley’s Jonelle Matthews disappeared, a suspect...
The Idaho man accused of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews in 1984 will stand trial this month on murder charges almost four decades after the girl disappeared from her Greeley home...
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Killer or “true crime junkie”? Suspect’s long obsession with Jonelle...
Jonelle Matthews Steven Pankey’s decades-long fixation on the 1984 disappearance of Greeley’s 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews is at the center of the murder case against him. Whether that fixation is...
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Second “Hammer Killer” trial ends in mistrial after one day
One day in and Alex Ewing’s second trial in connection with a series of brutal 1984 hammer attacks is already over. A Jefferson County judge on Wednesday morning declared a mistrial after granting a...
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Longtime unidentified murder victim of serial killer in Alaska is identified...
A cold case victim, known for 37 years as Horseshoe Harriet, of a serial killer in Alaska has been positively identified as a Colorado native. Anchorage Daily News via APThis Oct. 1971 file photo shows...
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Jonelle Matthews case: Jurors deliberating in Steve Pankey’s murder trial
Jonelle Matthews GREELEY — Jurors started deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged with murder in the death of a 12-year-old Colorado girl who...
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