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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 […]

DENVER — Two months after a former Colorado inmate killed two men and lead police on a nationwide manhunt, a sheriffs office in Texas is releasing new images of an attack between the suspect and police. The video clip above is graphic.I On Wednesday, the Montague County Sheriffs Office released dashboard camera video that shows a 27-year-old deputy […]

DENVER — The early results of an audit of the sentences of prisoners in Colorado has found potentially hundreds of errors. Corrections officials are alerting judges throughout the state to the errors. The reviews are happening after it was disclosed that the man accused of killing Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements and Commerce City […]

DENVER — Thomas Guolee, a suspected member of the white supremacist 211 Crew and an associate of murder suspect Evan Ebel, has been arrested, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday evening. Police have been seeking Guolee, 31, since last week. He and another man, James Lohr, were wanted for questioning in connection with […]

DENVER — The Colorado Department of Corrections will implement new measures designed to capture former prisoners who break their parole, the agency announced Wednesday. The new measures include monthly roundups of fugitives who break parole and a new rule requiring a two-hour response time for investigating all ankle bracelet tampering alerts. The Capitol’s Joint Budget […]

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. — One of the two suspected gang members wanted in connection with the murder of the Colorado’s Director…

(CNN) — The man believed to be the one who killed Colorado’s prisons chief fantasized in a letter to a friend about torturing and killing guards at the state correctional facility where he was incarcerated. He signed it “Evil Evan Ebel.” Whether it was meant as a joke or something more sinister may never be […]

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.  — Authorities are questioning two associates of the man suspected in the killing of the state prisons director, a law enforcement source close to the investigation said Thursday. The two men, whom the source declined to identify, are in addition to James Lohr, 47, and Thomas Guolee, 31, two men the […]

DENVER — Evan Ebel, the main suspect in the murders of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements and pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, signed his name with a swastika in a letter he wrote in prison that was confiscated because it threatened guards, FOX31 Denver learned Wednesday. The letter was written to Shawna, a female pen […]

DENVER — Authorities knew the ankle bracelet on parole Evan Ebel was tampered with  days before he allegedly killed pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon and state prisons chief Tom Clements, new documents show. Ebel was released from prison on January 28, 2013 and was supposed to wear an ankle monitor. According to state documents, Ebel […]

DENVER — Evan Spencer Ebel, the man suspected in a crime spree that included the murders of Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, was released up to four years early due to a clerical error by Fremont County courts, a review of case records has found. The 11th […]

The following is the full text of a media release by the 11th Judicial District (including Chaffee, Custer, Fremont and Park Counties) regarding a clerical mistake involving Evan Spencer Ebel.     The district court, in response to media inquiry, has reviewed the record in Fremont County case number 07CR105, People of the State of Colorado […]