The Colorado Springs Police Department would like to thank the numerous units/agencies who have provided a tremendous amount of investigative assistance in this case over the years including the Fountain Police Department, the Forth Judicial District Attorneys Office, The El Paso County Coroners Office, the Metro Crime Lab, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and Parabon. MURDERED 53 YEARS AGO TODAY. Anyone with information regarding the unsolved murder of Ricky Lane Allen is encouraged to contact the Colorado Springs Police Department at (719) 444-7000. (Courtesy of Parabon Labs) . Dona Jones, daughter-in-law of Iowa state senator Frank Jones, was widely rumored in Villisca to have had an affair with Joe Moore. Read the initial story at gazette.com. 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The murders convulsed Villisca, particularly after a few clumsy and futile attempts to search the surrounding countryside for a transient killer failed to unearth a likely suspect. Using DNA evidence recovered from the pants of Jennifer Watkins, Parabon produced trait predictions for the associated person of interest (POI). Privacy Statement Case: 73-14300 United States, Copyright 2023 El Paso County, CO Crafted by Oxbow Labs, 719-520-7100 / 719-390-5555 (after hours). 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On September 18, 2009 his body was discovered in the bushes off of Highway 115. 94 just east of Colorado Springs. Daily Briefing COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Police in Colorado Springs announced they solved the cold case murder of a hospital employee after her body was found more than 20 years ago. Christmas is a time for celebrating family and friends, but for the friends and family of Margaret Sweet, who was murdered on Christmas Eve . Ms. Harris' body was discovered on November 16, 1969, along the road to NORAD. Case: 12-12983 Sandberg exited a vehicle to confront a pedestrian and disappeared. She was driving a white and blue Chevrolet Blazer, Colorado license plates UA-6471. Name: Bustos, Martin. One person is dead following a single-vehicle accident in northeast Colorado Springs Monday night, according to the Colorado Springs Police de. Monique LaSuer Age: 26 Incident Date: August 30, 2000 Employees of the Best Western Palmer House found LaSuer deceased. The cause of death was said to be strangulation. Angelica is the owner of The Criminal Journal. Read the initial story at gazette.com. Some investigators estimate he actually murdered over 30 women. The finding concluded that the human remains were those of a Caucasian male, 54 to 57, 30 to 40 years of age, hair color is unknown. Other information, such as age, location, triangulation between matches, and/or ancestry and phenotype (trait) predictions, were used to narrow down the possibilities before a final list of leads was produced. Family photo via Colorado Springs Police Department More than two decades after the slaying of. What happened next marked the Villisca killings as truly peculiar and still sends shivers down the spine a century after the fact. Investigators removed the plastic and found the dead body of an adult white female with brown hair. Bryan was last seen on September 8, 1982, leaving the Rainbow Motel in Colorado Springs. Angelina Marie Sicola Age: 23 Incident Date: May 2, 2013 The body of Angelina Sicola was found in her apartment at 3807 Half Turn Road, #315. He was heading to the Denver area. Learn more about this case at colorado.gov. Colorado has seen its share of horrible crimes. There were things about Kelly that made him seem an implausible suspectnot least that he stood only 5-foot-2 and weighed 119 poundsbut in other ways he fit the bill. According to the network, Kenda has solved 356 homicide cases and has a 92 percent solve rate. By sundown there was not a dog to be bought in Villisca at any price. He seems to have stayed inside the house for quite some time, filling a bowl with water andsome later reports saidwashing his bloody hands in it. Jocelyn Sandberg Age: 42 Incident Date: April 26, 2002 Sandberg was found stabbed to death on the sidewalk in front of Armstrong Hall on the Colorado College campus. Villisca: The True Account of the Unsolved Mass Murder That Stunned The Nation. The autopsy revealed Sicola had been strangled. The reporting parties informed investigators the two missing boys lived at 18060 Granite Circle in Monument, Colorado, with their adoptive parents Edward and Linda Bryant. Randolph L LeBeau Age: 36 Incident Date: July 13, 1995 Colorado Springs Police Department responded to a call of a person slumped over the steering wheel of a running vehicle. Is comparing Colorado Springs' and Denver's homeless populations fair or unfair? Learn more about this case at colorado.gov. _gaq.push( Case: 90-2993 Read more about this case at colorado.gov. The Moores were not discovered until several hours later, when a neighbor, worried by the absence of any sign of life in the normally boisterous household, telephoned Joes brother, Ross, and asked him to investigate. Mr. Copley has never returned home. Homicide Hunter has aired on ID since 2011. His mother, Joanne Brownlee, was 72 years old and had gone blind from glaucoma when she didn't show up to a family gathering in January of 2013. "I just would like to know what happened," David said. The autopsy revealed the cause of death was strangulation. On September 11, 1988, her body was discovered in a ditch off of Goldfield Road near the Widefield subdivision. Ms. Lewis, a 17 year old, was last seen on September 8, 1988 at Prospect Lake. Edward claimed the boys ran away on separate dates while Linda stated they ran away at the same time. Thomas Raymond Kinslow Age: 20 Incident Date: November 22, 2005 Colorado Springs police officers arrived at the 3900 block of Constitution Avenue and found Kinslow lying in the middle of the street a short distance from his residence. 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['_setCustomVar', 4, 'ga_page_type', 'path'], Read the initial story at gazette.com. It is the sincerest hope of all those involved in the CBI Cold Case Unit's efforts that the necessary tips and information can be provided to the agencies investigating these "cold cases" such that they may resolve their own investigations and provide some justice and resolution to these tragedies. Darlene D Krashoc Age: 20 Incident Date: March 17, 1987 Krashoc was discovered at the Korean Club Restaurant parking lot by two Colorado Springs Police Department officers. Case: 82-1516 Case: 94-4553 The victim was wearing a teal colored uniform smock, a purple blouse, and black pants. 33, inside a home on the 1600 block of Howard was determined to be a murder-suicide by Colorado Springs Police. Access all of our premium content, get unlimited digital access and more! Though never formally charged with any involvement in the murders, Jones became the subject of a grand jury investigation and a prolonged campaign to prove his guilt which destroyed his political career. Mr. Severt cannot be excluded. In 1914, living in Winner, South Dakota, he would advertise for a girl stenographer to do confidential work, and that ad, placed in the Omaha World-Herald, would also specify that the successful candidate must be willing to pose as model. When a young woman named Jessamine Hodgson responded, she received in return a letter, described by a judge as so obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy as to be offensive to this honorable court and improper to be spread upon the record thereof. Amongst his milder instructions, Kelly told Hodgson that she would be required to type in the nude. The cause of death is undetermined. Over the years, we've seen our fair share of unsolved murders in Colorado and various phenomena that have baffled both law enforcement and the general public alike. Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Community Guidelines | KRDO Jobs | FCC Applications |, KRDO FCC Public File | KRDO FCC Applications, Breaking News The cause of death is undetermined. His sister lived with his mother at the time. Thursday, Sept 6, 2007, Littleton Police announced. The co-worker and another individual discovered him in an upstairs bedroom. This composite was subsequently released to the media in an effort to generate leads. In February 2003, her body was found in a farmer's field in Weld County, Colorado. Investigators say that Stephanie Bauman's body was found. The El Paso County Sheriffs Office currently has 18 cold homicide cases and 7 missing person cases with suspicious circumstances. At first glance, the case against Kelly seemed compelling; he had sent bloody clothing to the laundry in nearby Macedonia, and an elderly couple recalled meeting the preacher when he alighted from a 5.19 a.m. train from Villisca that June 10 and being told that gruesome murders had been committed in the towna hugely incriminating statement, since the preacher had left Villisca three hours before the killings were discovered. The latest breaking news, delivered straight to your email! He was taken to the hospital and died as a result of his injuries. If you have any information on any of the Sheriffs Office unsolved cases, please contact Dispatch at (719) 390-5555 and ask for Investigations or call the Sheriff's Office Tip Line at 719-520-6666. The 23-year veteran of the Colorado Springs Police Department spent 21 years chasing murders as a homicide detective and commander of the major crimes unit. In news that will either excite or scare, the series has featured cases from Colorado over 40 times. When they entered the stairwell area, they detected a distinctive smell. The elevator personnel looked under the stairwell and saw what appeared to be the shape of a body wrapped in plastic and bound with duct tape. Investigation soon made plain that there were links between Lyn Kelly and the Moore family. Case: 88-3053 Two DNA profiles, other than the victims, were developed from the evidence items submitted for analysis. He telephoned his girlfriend from the bus terminal and stated he would be returning home since he missed his connection. That was the theory of James Wilkerson, an agent of the renowned Burns Detective Agency, who in 1916 announced that Jones had hired a killer by the name of William Mansfield to murder the man who had humiliated him. A suspect allegedly connected to several armed robberies in Colorado Springs was arrested Thursday afternoon after accelerating into civilian . 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Lena and Ina Stillinger. He said he doesn't even know if she's still alive. "For Colorado Springs Police Department, it's our only unsolved triple murder, and not only that, but there are two children involved, so the case itself is pretty traumatic," Colorado Springs . Because Ricky Severt was killed in a traffic accident in 2001, the investigation into the murder of Jennifer Watkins will be closed out as Exceptionally Cleared / Death of Offender. The Charley Project Keith Reinhard Keith Reinhard, 49, disappeared from Silver Plume, Colorado in 1988. The cause of death was strangulation with contributing injuries of blunt force trauma. Mr. Copley left his residence located at 4319 W. Colorado Ave in Colorado Springs on June 20, 2014, to attend a 9:00 AM counseling meeting at the Warriors Support Center located at 1330 Quail Lake Loop, Colorado Springs. Yet other similarities among the crimes are much harder to explain away. Still carrying the ax, the stranger walked past one room in which two girls, ages 12 and 9, lay sleeping, and slipped up the narrow wooden stairs that led to two other bedrooms. New downtown Colorado Springs transit center plans updated, councilman calls it a 'boondoggle', Colorado Springs high school student arrested after allegedly bringing loaded gun to school. Rodney D Kirschenman Age: 24 Incident Date: February 17, 1991 Kirschenman was found deceased by a security guard of a local business. Ms. Aguilera, a 23 year old, was last seen on September 17, 1987. He was left-handed, and Coroner Linquist had determined from an examination of blood spatters in the murder house that the killer probably swung his ax that way. Investigators later learned Bryan might have met up with a man named Carlos Anthony Torres aka: "CAT." Case: 82-1153 Learn more about this case at colorado.gov. Her death was ruled a homicide. 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