Tag: cold case
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Utah victim linked to Bundy
SALT LAKE CITY — New DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, the local sheriff’s office said Wednesday. Laura Ann Aime, 17, went missing Halloween night 51 years ago after she left a party alone to go to a convenience store. About…
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20 years after Fort Carson soldier’s death, family seeks answers
Amber Stone reported her husband missing on Valentine’s Day 20 years ago. A week later he was found in a sewage treatment pond on Fort Carson. Stone is certain her husband, Joseph Eric Barker, didn’t walk barefoot across Fort Carson in the winter and go willingly into the pond. And so is his mom, Lynda…
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38-year-old cold case murder tied to infamous Denver-area serial killer
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office announced a resolution to a 38-year-old cold case murder Tuesday. Using modern DNA and forensic analysis, investigators determined that the killer of Rhonda Marie Fisher — found dead in 1987 — was Vincent Groves, believed to be responsible for at least a dozen killings in the metro Denver area during…
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Michael Clark murder defense seeks to link case to JonBenét investigation ‘mistakes’
In new legal filings, Michael Clark, now facing a second trial for a 1994 murder, seeks to link alleged Boulder police missteps in his case with the city’s most notorious cold case: JonBenét Ramsey. The unusual claim came within a flurry of 12 subpoenas to Boulder authorities seeking documents and other information connected to the…
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Weld County defendant need not turn over ‘all evidence’ of other suspect, Colorado justices rule
A Weld County judge went too far when he ordered the defendant in a murder case to reveal to the prosecution “all evidence” implicating another suspect, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, while acknowledging some information-sharing is nonetheless appropriate. For more than 40 years, the 1979 murder of Evelyn “Kay” Day in Greeley went unsolved.…
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Police still searching for person who killed 20-year-old UCCS student in 2013
Angelina Sicola’s body was discovered in her Colorado Springs apartment on May 2, 2013
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Colorado cold cases: Pueblo County reaches out to Florida forensic expert for help
In September 2022, investigators with the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office discovered skeletal human remains in a remote location in eastern Pueblo County. With no leads, foul play suspected and DNA test results taking longer than expected, Pueblo County sheriff’s Detective Vanessa Simpson decided to embark on a different method for identifying the remains. On the recommendation of a colleague, she reached out to noted…
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VIDEO | Colorado Springs woman identified in a 1993 cold case death investigation
Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock and Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth discuss recent progress in a 1993 cold case death investigation.
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Colorado Cold Case: Friends, investigators share hope for justice in triple-homicide
Before her name became linked with a notorious Colorado Springs triple-murder, Cassandra Rundle wrestled with the idea of death. She set down her questions in a poem, wondering what it sounded like. How it smelled. How it felt. “Does death begin with broken dreams Or simply slip behind you in the night Does it start…
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Colorado Cold Case: Confession in North Carolina triple-homicide raises questions about unsolved 1985 Valentine’s Day killings
In January 1992, a young soldier named Philip Wilkinson walked into a police station in Fayetteville, N.C., and said his conscience was bothering him. He ended up confessing to a 6-month-old triple killing that had stunned the growing military town and left police scrambling for the person responsible. Wilkinson, then 24, described what came next,…