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DENVER — A woman from Commerce City has been arrested after authorities accused her of providing the gun that was used to kill Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements. The Colorado Bureau of Investigations announced Wednesday night that Stevie Vigil, 22, was in custody. The CBI says she sold the gun to murder suspect […]

DENVER –Sources say the man suspected of killing Colorado Dept. of Corrections Director Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon may have had more targets. They tell FOX31 Denver that they found a hit list among all of the other items in Evan Ebel’s vehicle. He died a week ago in a wild […]

DENVER — The 9mm handgun Evan Ebel used to shoot a Texas police officer last week is the same weapon that killed Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements, ballistic analysts concluded Monday afternoon. The confirmation goes well beyond proving the same caliber and brand of ammunition used and all but guarantees the accuracy of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Murdered Department of Corrections director Tom Clements was remembered Monday as a tireless optimist who believed that no one was beyond saving. “He lived his life believing in redemption and the ability of the human heart to be changed,” his wife, Lisa Clements said during a memorial at the New Life Church […]

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 — A Commerce City woman accused of giving a gun to Evan Ebel, the prime suspect in the murder investigation of DOC director Tom Clements, made her first court appearance Thursday morning. Stevie Vigil, 22, appeared in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs in Arapahoe County Court. The judge decided to keep her bond at […]

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 — 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 […]

(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 […]