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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 […]

BOULDER — After Colorado prison records proved Evan Ebel tampered with his ankle monitoring bracelet, the company who made the device is offering a behind the scenes look at the technology used on inmates across the country. The records show that a Boulder-based monitoring company contacted the Colorado Department of Corrections to inform them Ebel had tampered […]

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 […]

KAUFMAN, Texas (CNN) — Kaufman County is on edge. Two prosecutors killed in two months, including the district attorney, gunned down in his home over the weekend. What’s going on? Is someone assassinating prosecutors? As armed guards surround the Kaufman County Courthouse and police shrouded some public officials in around-the-clock protection, it seems there are […]

(CNN) — There are indications that the man believed to have killed the head of the Colorado prison system this month may have been released from prison early because of a clerical error. Evan Ebel entered the Department of Corrections in February, 2005, sentenced to three years in prison on robbery and menacing charges. In […]

DENVER — President Barack Obama is planning to visit Denver on Wednesday to discuss gun control with local law enforcement officials, the White House announced on Saturday. The announcement comes after a wave of rallies across the country sought to increase pressure on Washington to act. Obama is scheduled to visit with local law enforcement […]

(KDVR) — After a high speed chase and shoot-out with police ended with Evan Ebel’s death in Texas, documents reveal investigators discovered key pieces of evidence inside his car. Detectives found bomb-making materials and instructions, as well as surveillance equipment, and many handwritten documents — including what sources are calling a hit list. The list […]