Update below: Some deaths are so brutal, so shocking to the public conscience, that they seem to cry out for retribution. That seemed to be the case in the fatal trauma suffered by thirteen-month-old Brookelynn Palmer, whose head injuries were so severe that prosecutors maintained she must have been swung…
Female students at CU-Boulder are on alert this morning over disturbing reports about a man who’s been fondling and harassing women near one of the most traveled spots on the campus. Continue for photos, video, a larger version of the sketch above. See also: Gun-Free CU-Boulder Dorms are Target Areas…
KKTV in Colorado Springs didn’t have to look far for a story last night. There was one waiting in its parking lot — specifically what initially looked like an explosive device left in the vicinity of an employee’s vehicle. But it turned out to be a lot less incendiary than…
Chuck E. Cheese restaurants are designed to attract kids — and knowing that, the eatery’s security team has designed safety measures intended to keep perverts away. But that apparently didn’t stop Robert Weber, a sex offender, from getting inside a local branch and inducing a three-year-old girl to perform a…
The body found in a Xenia Street alley late Thursday night wasn’t the only grisly discovery in the metro area late last week. A dead woman was spotted along North Chambers Road in Aurora on Friday morning, with local law enforcers initially expressing exasperation that the incident came to their…
“To say Plaintiff Denny Lovern has a problem with alcohol, and in particular drinking and driving, is an understatement,” notes a recent U.S. Court of Appeals judgment prompted by Lovern’s arrest for crashing into a wall and a fence with a blood alcohol content of .321, roughly four times the…
In his preparations for his attack on his school last December, Karl Pierson developed a hit list of specific students he planned to target and even scoped out in advance the locations where his intended victims could be found. Yet those details were omitted from the official report on the…
There’s a good reason why most people don’t recall the Denver police shooting that killed Joseph Valverde this past July: It took place mere hours before officers killed Ryan Ronquillo at a funeral home staging a memorial service for one of his friends. But even though the Valverde incident was…
Update: Booking photos have been released for the four people previously arrested in connection with the homicide death of Andrea Bartmess; see our earlier coverage below. In addition, a fifth person, 21-year-old Chataignier D. McCaffrey-Pickett, has also been taken into custody regarding the crime, and while her mug shot was…
Our most viewed crime post of November involved Meghan McKeon, who was sentenced to 22 years after her toddler died while she spent time with a bottle. Her story is among twenty shared here by way of links to the month’s most memorable mug shots. See them all below, and…
Is Snowmass Village’s Michael Phillips a hip-hop poet or a dangerous stalker who used his Instagram account and other online sites to threaten a former girlfriend? Those are among the questions surrounding the arrest of Michael Phillips. See photos and get details of his strange case, which pivots on communication…
Last month, we told you about the death of Rachel Neiman, a Regis University student who was killed after being struck by a suspected street racer. Now, two men, William Chicano and David Felan, have been formally charged in the case — and Felan, whose Facebook page is filled with…
Update: Last week, we reported that Jose Alderete-Gomez had been arrested in conjunction with an attack on a Fort Collins woman — and speculation was rife that he was responsible for a string of assaults in the area; see our previous coverage below. Now, the charges against Alderete-Gomez have expanded…
Last week, we shared allegations against a Denver police officer caught on video punching a suspect six times in the face and tripping a pregnant woman. In addition, officers were accused of deleting the video, which was later said to have been recovered from a cloud-based storage system. Around the…
Ten Fort Collins women have been attacked over the past few months, and police believe the same man assaulted many, if not all, of them. Against this backdrop, 27-year-old Jose Alderete-Gomez has been arrested in one of the incidents — and investigators are working to see if they can link…
Black Friday marks the official start of the holiday shopping season — and presumably also the holiday shoplifting season. With that in mind, the Aurora Police Department is sending a simple seasonal message: “Shoplift in Aurora and go to jail!” Those are the first words in a new APD Facebook…
Back in August, we reported that Jennifer Reali, who’d gained a lot more notoriety as the so-called Fatal Attraction killer of her lover’s wife than she has for the gospel singing on self-released albums that she recorded while doing time at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, was living in a…
Early Sunday morning, a man was killed at The Beach, a nightclub near Mile High Stadium, and friends are identifying him as Kevie Durham, better known to local hip-hop fans as KL Tha General; read a remembrance of him in our Backbeat blog. Here’s the latest about this crime and…
Three years ago, Colorado’s state prison system kept nearly 10 percent of its population held in solitary confinement, a rate that was about seven times the national average. That excessive use began to change under Department of Corrections executive director Tom Clements, until his 2013 murder by Evan Ebel, an…
How badly did Matthew Hickcox and friends allegedly want meth? Enough to rip a mailbox out of a sidewalk. That’s among the assertions about what prosecutors describe as an identity theft ring — and two members, including Matthew’s brother Robert, remain on the loose at this writing. Photos, details and…
The murder at Aurora’s Bronco Bar wasn’t the only example of gunfire in the metro area last night. Two people were also shot in Commerce City — and the individuals behind the triggers were Denver police officers. Continue for details about the incident, which flowed from a failed traffic stop…
What’s among the worst ways to convince a police officer you’re completely innocent of a hit-and-run crash? Trying to punch him in the face after admitting you’re a habitual drunk driver. That’s among the alleged reasons Gonzalez has now been charged with hitting and running in a violent weekend smash-up…
