Policeman killed on day of promotion in Colorado Springs
Donald Robert Laabs had distinguished himself in one of the most dangerous areas of police work. He was an undercover officer who posed as a drug buyer to catch drug dealers. Sgt. Donald Robert Laabs...
View ArticleWoman’s charred skeleton found under funeral pyre near Black Hawk
It was one of Colorado’s biggest unsolved murder mysteries of the 1950s. Jane Doe, funeral pyre victim Who placed a log on top of a woman and torched her body in Gilpin County? It came to be known as...
View ArticleJournalist shot to death as he flees robbers in Denver
Nicolas Ferrel-Ibarra was a reporter in Mexico, one of the most dangerous places on the planet to be a journalist. Nicolas Ferrel-Ibarra, 35 Only eight other countries around the world including Iraq...
View ArticleDenver woman disappeared under suspicious circumstances
Amy Ahonen’s black 2005 Jeep Liberty was found abandoned in Clear Creek Canyon near the side of Highway 6 in Jefferson County. It was near the Mayhem Gulch Trail, a well-traveled scenic route where...
View ArticleElderly man crushed by own car in apparent carjacking in Aurora
The argument broke out in the middle of the day on August 9, 1997 in the parking lot of Plaza Liquors, 1144 Yosemite St. in Aurora. Joseph Michael Neiens, 71 It was an unusual confrontation, with an...
View ArticleMost fragile of Colorado murder victims left in trash bins and toilets
Maybe the most troubling part of the discovery of a dead newborn in 2002 was the fact that a law had been passed to stop such an abandonment. Baby Boy Doe Over the years many newborns have been...
View ArticleDenver cops say government spokesman shot wife, staged suicide scene
Kurt Sonnenfeld is charged with shooting his wife to death and Denver prosecutors know exactly where he is living. Kurt and Nancy Sonnenfeld But they may never be able to bring him to trial. His fate...
View ArticleSerial killer bludgeons Lakewood woman with hammer
When her daughter was divorced in 1983, 50-year-old Patricia Louise Smith moved with her daughter and her two young grandchildren to a Green Mountain townhome. She wanted to help them adjust from their...
View ArticleColorado Springs lingerie model vanishes on photo shoot trip to Denver
On the night that part-time model Kara Nichols disappeared, she was scurrying to put makeup on and get ready for a modeling appointment with a Denver photographer. Kara Nichols Nichols, 19, lived in a...
View ArticleYoung computer programmer fatally shot during Denver witching hour
Murders in Colorado often have one thing in common: the time of death is within minutes of 2 a.m. Jason Auguillard, 24 It’s not a fluke and it’s not surprising to police. It’s when bars close up (for...
View ArticleHip hop fan “Winkie” gunned down at Denver nightclub
When he was a child growing up in Los Angeles, Byron Lynn Parker loved playing basketball and listening to West Coast rap. He idolized Tupac Shakur, the popular rap artist gunned down in Las Vegas in...
View ArticleCedaredge High School student possibly kidnapped at gunpoint, led into woods
More than 30 years ago, 17-year-old Roger Ellison was last seen in the basement of Cedaredge High School. There has been no sign of the popular student since then. His mysterious disappearance has...
View ArticleColorado cold case: 3 disappear on a take your daughter to work day
Sarah Skiba stayed with her father every other weekend after her parents divorced in 1993. Sarah Skiba, 9 The Sunday she disappeared, Feb. 7, 1999, the 9-year-old girl had climbed into her father’s...
View ArticleDying Denver man said murdered grandson had arrived to get him
Gilbert Garcia had a different perspective than many kids. Teens often play sports and work out with the dream of being a famous athlete, or at least to be popular in school. Denver Police...
View ArticleWoman traumatized by Columbine massacre turns to drugs, vanishes
One rumor had Brandi Jo Malonson dying of a drug overdose the day after Christmas in 2006. According to another, she was murdered and her killer tossed her body in the Platte River. A third variation...
View ArticleAdams County jury convicts woman in security guard’s cold case murder
An Adams County jury has convicted a 32-year-old woman in the 2008 murder of a security guard who was gunned down in the parking lot of The Grizzley Rose nightclub. Timothy Minnick, 48 Jennifer Lewis...
View ArticleKidney transplant survivor who liked to fish shot in Denver home
Alphonso Clark wasn’t in the best of health a year after a kidney transplant. It was one of the reasons neighbors of his brick duplex home at 3676 Hudson St. kept an eye on the quiet man who mostly...
View ArticleMonument couple gets $174,000 in subsidies for long-missing adoptive sons
The smiles of the carefully groomed boys gleamed as they posed for school pictures. Austin Bryant Dylan Bryant and Austin Eugene Bryant appeared to be well-cared for. Their hair was meticulously...
View ArticleRemains of missing woman Amy Ahonen discovered
The remains of a 37-year-old woman who disappeared nearly three years ago have been found and identified, according to a Denver police news release on Thursday, March 6, 2014. Amy Ahonen Amy Ahonen was...
View ArticleDenver teen stripped, raped and murdered in church
In 1979, Martha Guzman, 19, was a very active member of the Spanish Church of God at 3401 Bryant St. who had been attending the church for about 2 1/2 years. She was appointed as a committee member of...
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