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PUEBLO, Colo. — The Pueblo District Attorney Jeff Chostner confirms the Donthe Lucas trial will begin Monday. Jury selection begins at 9 a.m.  Lucas is charged with first-degree murder in relation to the February 2013 disappearance of then 21-year-old Kelsie Schelling. He has pleaded not guilty to the crime. Lucas was Schelling’s boyfriend at the time she went […]

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 […]

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. […]

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. — 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. — 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 […]

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 […]

PUEBLO, Colo. — The mother of a man arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in the disappearance of a pregnant 21-year-old woman is in custody for investigation of robbery. Sara Lucas, 49, was arrested Friday in connection with a September robbery. Her sons, Donthe Lucas and Dushon Lucas, were arrested in November on charges stemming […]

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 […]

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 […]