Tomorrow night’s episode of the CBS true-crime show 48 Hours will tell the story of Brittney Brashers, a 21-year-old Air Force member who was beaten and choked to death by her boyfriend, Robert Walters, in November 2009. Walters tried to cover up the murder by making it look like a…
Update below: Prosecutors say victims of the Aurora theater shooting are “severely concerned” about their own safety and for that reason, the names of all victims and witnesses in the case should be kept secret. The argument came in response to a request from several media outlets to release the…
The Aurora Police Department has made an arrest in the October 2 death of a man later identified as 24-year-old Darius Norris. Tisihia Allen, 26, is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder. Get more details below…
Ken Feinberg, the “special master” of the Aurora Victim Relief Fund, stood Thursday night in a suit and tie before a couple dozen theater shooting victims at the Aurora library and explained his idea for doling out the more than $5 million in donations to the fund: The “bulk of…
Given all the attention being paid to the disappearance of Jessica Ridgeway, it’s easy to forget that there are other missing children out there. Indeed, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children lists a shocking 38 in Colorado, most (but not all) of them family abductions or endangered runaways…
Had 35-year-old Consuela Zavala crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in the fifteen years since he was accused of brutally gunning down a man in a Weld County onion field? No one’s saying right now. But his attempt to enter Arizona last month triggered a Colorado arrest warrant that led to Zavala’s…
In this week’s feature, “On a Roll,” we take a look at the growth of cycling in Denver and the potentially fatal consequences. As more Denver residents are hopping on bikes, tensions on the road seem to be at an all-time high — and collisions between bikes and cars certainly…
Attorneys for accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes have answered the question we posed last week in this headline: “Should law enforcement be punished for releasing strange new mug shot?” The answer is no — at least according to Holmes’s lawyers, who were the ones asking for the punishment in…
Sandi Peterson sometimes worried about how her son Dan, who moved to Denver in 2010, was getting by in a new city. And when she flew here in July from Wisconsin, it was meaningful to meet so many of his friends at once, even if it was under the worst…
Today, three new documents were released in the case of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes pertaining to a pair of controversies — defense attorneys’ call for sanctions against prosecutors for allegedly lying about Holmes being banned from the Anschutz Medical Campus, and a request from three shooting survivors suing…
The second-degree murder charge against Fort Collins’ Nicole Marie Ryan will likely be a complicated one to prove. The facts on the surface seem simple: Ryan appears to have slashed the throat of her fiance, Raymond Wimmer, who later bled to death. But this act was prefigured by a back…
One of the central questions in the case of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes involves whether his attorneys will employ the insanity defense. The legal tactic has been used many times in mass slayings and other shocking crimes, and not always effectively: Note that serial killers John Wayne Gacy…
Update below: Families representing eleven of the twelve people who died in the Aurora theater shooting have asked Colorado’s attorney general and secretary of state to investigate Community First Foundation and its website, GivingFirst.org, which collected more than $5 million in donations to the Aurora Victim Relief Fund. The letter…
Just a few weeks after a honk-happy Colorado driver was arrested for harassing two cyclists on an open road in Longmont, another bike rider has been victimized — this time on a path with no cars. A barbed wire trap on a trail in South Platte Park threw a woman…
Update: Last week, we told you about a homicide in Green Valley Ranch on Wednesday evening; look below for our previous coverage. Now, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the victim as Matthew Gianopoulos, age 21. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds. Here’s a little more about a…
Mike White is searching for answers. To find them, he hopes to return to the Aurora theater where a gunman opened fire on White, his family and others who’d come to see the July 20 midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. “I’m not sure what the questions are,” White…
In August, Gail Parrish shared her frustration about the absence of a guilty plea in the January hit and run that killed Jenna Breen, her beloved daughter. This week, however, that situation changed. Viet Nguyen, the man charged with committing the crime, finally pleaded guilty to all charges against him…
What’s creepier than a sex offender groping an unsuspecting woman who’s legally blind? A sex offender groping an unsuspecting woman who’s legally blind in front of her three-year-old son. The crime, for which James Rodgers was sentenced this week, is detailed in an arrest affidavit on view below…
No, it’s not surprising that someone would create a mask of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes just in time for Halloween — not given the continuing fascination with the man at the center of various James Holmes is Innocent Facebook pages. But the item itself, seen from two angles…
Last week, we reported about the arrest of Dennis Esquibel in the tragic hit and run that killed Laura McDermott. Shortly thereafter, Esquibel’s mother claimed he wasn’t actually driving at the time of the collision, while the police insisted otherwise. A copy of Esquibel’s probable cause statement obtained after he…
Releasing a second mug shot of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes violated the case’s gag order, Holmes’s attorneys argue in a new motion. A judge has granted their request for a hearing to investigate. The mug shot was “leaked to the media” on September 20, Holmes’s attorneys say –…
In their first group message focused on gun policy, family members of those who died in the Aurora theater shooting have come together to urge presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer to press Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on the topic of firearms violence when the candidates face off in Denver…
