Kevin Sypher’s ex-wife learned his secret just days before disappearance
Almost a year after he went missing, we’re learning a former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy is in the Teller County jail. Kevin Sypher is facing multiple charges including theft and misconduct in office.
Gazette news partner KOAA reports that the timing of his disappearance could have something to do with the dissolution of this second marriage. His ex-wife did not want to comment on the story.
Court documents show that she discovered Sypher was already married to another woman just one month after she married him. Days after her discovery, Sypher walked off into Rocky Mountain National Forest and wasn’t heard from for nearly a year.
His colleagues arrested Sypher on Tuesday and booked him into the jail around 6:30 p.m. The 57-year-old was charged with felony theft, felony charitable fraud and two counts of official misconduct.
In looking into Sypher’s background, KOAA learned Sypher and his wife, Sara, worked together and that she is also in law enforcement.
In her petition to declare her marriage to Kevin Sypher invalid, the court documents say that less than a month after they got married in March 2023, she learned her new husband was already married to a woman in California — three days before his disappearance in April 2023.
