Earlier this year, we told you about the arrest of Meghan McKeon after the death of her three-year-old son, Austin Davis. Now she’s been sentenced to more than two decades in stir for her actions, which included leaving the boy home alone for days while she was “spending time with…
We recently told you about Jeremy Yachik, a former police officer who allegedly beat his daughter for eating carrots (as opposed to punshing her for not eating them). Now comes an equally extreme and bizarre case of abuse, this one involving Lee Kizer, who has reportedly admitted to beating a…
As is clear from this photo, Nancy Worrell had a smile more than capable of lighting up any room she entered — which only makes her murder late last month that much sadder and more tragic. The person accused of ending her life has now been formally charged with her…
Update: Yesterday morning, we reported about two assaults near Washington Park prior to the bust of a man for a separate incident who was being eyed as a suspect in the earlier crimes; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Denver Police Department has identified the arrestee as Kijana Jelks,…
According to an arrest affidavit on view below, Thomas White considered himself to be a rapper. But instead of making rap his career, he will soon start serving one for, among other things, prostituting an underage teen. And if things break a certain way, his sentence could be nearly half-a-century…
Meth was apparently all in the family for Darin Ninneman, whose mom, Lorri, is said to have regularly shared the substance with him and his brothers. In the end, however, Darin brutally stabbed Lorri to death, then fled the scene reluctantly — because he wanted to take his iPad with…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the two women murdered in an apartment at the French Quarter complex late Wednesday night as Amanda Anders, nineteen, and Nancy Worrell, 22. They died of multiple gunshot wounds. In addition (update), the Denver Police Department has released the mug shot of the…
The two women shot to death at the French Quarter apartments weren’t the only homicide victims in the metro area this week. Also slain was Robert Goldsberry, a sixty-year-old who was gunned down in the parking lot of a South Parker Road Walmart. The man being held for the crime…
Last October, Colorado Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov was arrested for allegedly abusing Evgeniya Vavrinyuk, his girlfriend, only to have the case dismissed a couple of months later. Now, Vavrinyuk has filed a civil suit against Varlamov, claiming years of horrific abuse in Russia and beyond leading up to the Denver…
There have been other DIA-bound passengers busted for unwanted sexual advances on flight attendants over the years. But the accusations contained in an affidavit aimed at Vadym Pecherskyi, a 42-year-old from Kiev, Ukraine, hit new heights of creepiness, with one alleged victim saying she felt he would have raped her…
Yesterday, during a preliminary hearing, a deputy took the stand in Arapahoe County Court to posit the theory that Naomi Almodovor burned down a Centennial apartment complex as payback against a former girlfriend who had subsequently gotten into a relationship with a man. And the arrest affidavit in the case…
Last week, attorneys representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes requested yet another delay in jury selection, which had been set for December 8 — and prosecutors didn’t object. That put Judge Carlos Samour, who’s overseeing the case, in a difficult position. But while he’s now agreed to push back…
Update: Gregory Lewis’s crime spree ended after his capture in New York State. He’s now been formally charged in Colorado with a slew of very serious charges: attempted first-degree murder, three counts of sexual assault, two counts of first-degree assault and aggravated robbery. Continue for our previous coverage. See also:…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you about a series of attacks on Fort Collins women that local police believe were committed by the same man; see our previous coverage below. Now, two more assaults have taken place involving a suspect fitting the same description, bringing the latest estimate for…
Earlier this week, we reported about a motion filed by the defense team representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes asking for the current December 8 trial start date to be pushed back. Prosecutors have now responded, and they raise no objections to the request, making it likely that the…
Update: Rocky Mountain National Park may not have been the only site in Colorado tagged by accused vandal Casey Nocket. The National Park Service announced in a memo on October 29 that it was investigating Nocket for allegedly defacing Colorado National Monument, as well as RMNP and seven other national…
Remember Luke Chrisco, the guy who was arrested back in 2011 for hiding inside the tank of a porta-potty in order to scope the underside of users at a Boulder-area yoga festival? Well, he’s back with another memorable gambit. Even as he faces a possible return to a cell for…
Accidents happen in school science labs — but they hardly ever result in criminal accusations. Daniel Powell is an exception to this rule. He’s been charged with multiple assault beefs for a methanol explosion that injured four students, including one who spent weeks in the hospital for burns that initially…
Timothy Heckler has made his mark on the Denver Police Department — and more. Heckler’s bust for alleged tagging while wearing a Tigger costume — just in time for Halloween! — has inspired a new DPD Facebook feature entitled “What in the Wednesday.” But his own Facebook posts are stranger…
Update: Roderick Penny, who was the only person indicted in the Rollin 60s sweep described below, had been at large when our original post was published. He has now turned himself in to police. See our previous coverage below. Original post: Yesterday morning, members of the Aurora Police Department and…
The trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes has already been postponed twice — and now, Holmes’s defense team is hoping to convince the judge in the case to push it back a third time. The reason, according to a document filed yesterday and on view below, is the…
Following Keith Rohracker’s conviction for neglecting his elderly mother on an epic scale, a judge told him he would receive one year less than the maximum sentence — but only because his mom didn’t die. It was touch-and-go for a while. When Rohracker was finally taken to medical professionals to…
