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After the nationwide search unfolded for Gabby Petito, there is a renewed effort to find missing people.

DENVER — Kelsie Schelling’s family is doubling its reward for information that leads to her remains in the month of February, hoping $100,000 convinces someone to come forward. Kelsie Schelling disappeared in 2013. Police said she told her boyfriend, Donthe Lucas, she was pregnant and then drove from Denver to Pueblo to meet with him. […]

DENVER — Dozens of families will gather at the State Capitol on Monday for Missing Persons Day in Colorado to commemorate their missing loved ones publicly and raise awareness about the need to support legislation that helps solve these cases. Kelsie Schelling’s mother, Laura Saxton, organized the event. Schelling went missing in February 2013 after […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — The suspect in the death of Kelsie Schelling pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Tuesday. Schelling disappeared and was killed in 2013. The suspect, Donthe Isiah Lucas, 25, did not say a word when he was in the courtroom on Tuesday. A trial date of April 2 was set and it is […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — The man accused of killing a pregnant Denver woman five years ago was arraigned inside a Pueblo courtroom on Tuesday. Donthe Lucas pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges, which means his case will head to trial. The trial will begin April 2 and is expected to last three weeks. The defense on […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of a pregnant woman who disappeared in Pueblo. Friends and family gathered to remember Kelsie Schelling, whose body has never been found. Laura Saxton, Kelsie’s mother, cried as she said, “I don’t get to help her plan a wedding. I don’t get to go through the process […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — It was an emotional day in a Pueblo courtroom as the mother of Kelsie Schelling, Laura Saxon, attended the hearing for the suspect in her daughter’s death. Schelling has been missing for nearly five years and Donthe Lucas has been arrested as a suspect in the woman’s death. Lucas and Schelling had […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation will breathe new life into a cold case involving a pregnant woman who went missing in 2013. Kelsie Schelling, 21, was eight weeks pregnant when she disappeared four years ago. The investigation and search for Schelling will reopen Wednesday and will focus on the areas near where Schelling […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — A Pueblo man named as a person of interest in the case of a missing Denver woman appeared in court for a different case Friday. Donthe Lucas and his brother were arrested Monday for aggravated robbery. Donthe and his brother, Dushon, are accused of pulling a gun and beating a man, then stealing a […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — Police made an arrest in the death Kelsie Schelling on Friday. Schelling disappeared and was killed in 2013. The suspect, Donthe Isiah Lucas, 25, was already in custody at the Pueblo County Detention Center on unrelated charges. Investigators said he faces a charge of first-degree murder and is being held without bond […]

BEULAH, Colo. — Nearly 40 people showed up in Beulah to look for clues in the disappearance of Denver woman Kelsie Schelling on Saturday. On foot, horseback and rock climbers, friends and concerned citizens scoured steep terrain southwest of Pueblo. Searchers were brought to the location based on cellphone pings. Schelling disappeared in Pueblo in February […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — A private investigator hired by a missing woman’s family in 2013 to look for leads in the case spoke out Friday night after her ex-boyfriend’s arrest and said he believes more people will be arrested. Kelsie Schelling disappeared in Pueblo in February 2013. Police said Schelling texted her ex-boyfriend Donthe Lucas a […]