DENVER — A Saudi man being investigated for the murder of former Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements lost his latest bid for parole on Tuesday morning.
Homaidan al-Turki, serving an eight-years-to-life term for keeping his housekeeper a virtual slave in Colorado and sexually assaulting her, now must wait another two years before his next appearance before the Colorado Parole Board.
Parole Board member Dr. Anthony Young took a hard line on al-Turki saying “you raped and enslaved a woman here and that is a despicable crime.”
Al-Turki has refused to participate in sex offender programs, required by Colorado law for anyone convicted of a sex crime. Al-Turki has said he would participate in such a program in Saudi Arabia, but Young told al-Turki he was convicted in Colorado and needs to serve his sentence according to Colorado law.
Al-Turki is being held on sex-offender charges but the larger significance of his case centers on his possible connections to terrorism and to the Clements murder in March.
Clements was killed on his doorstep in an obvious hit carried out by Evan Ebel, a member of the white-supremacist 211 prison gang who was paroled in February.
Al-Turki was moved into protective isolation shortly after Clements’ shooting death when his name came up as a person of interest in the investigation.
Federal and state agents are investigating any possible financial transactions between al-Turki and 211 Crew members.
Part of the mystery surrounds Nathan DeLeon, a Dominos delivery driver who Ebel apparently killed before shooting Clements.
DeLeon’s uniform was found in Ebel’s vehicle after he was killed in a rolling gun battle with law enforcement officials in Texas.
The possible connection, as FOX31 Denver has reported: an undercover agent was able to get a warrant to arrest al-Turki after going to his door dressed as a pizza delivery man and glimpsing his maid inside his home.
A week before his murder, Clements had denied a petition by al-Turki to serve out the rest of his sentence in Saudi Arabia.
Al-Turki’s attorney, Hal Haddon, has called the idea that his client was involved in the Clements murder “outrageous.”