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Post by LadyBlue on May 8, 2004 21:53:59 GMT -5
A Clement Hall resident assistant who disappeared nearly two weeks ago has turned up in Denver and is all right, police say. Jeffrey Faw has been living at an apartment in Denver, said Detective D.R. Cook of the UT Police Department. Faw called Cook Monday to say he was in Denver on his own free will and he was all right. Faw did not mention why he had mysteriously disappeared.
Cook tracked the student to Denver after he made a credit card purchase there last Monday. He said that he received a copy of the card receipt Monday and determined the signature was Faw's. His car, wallet and checkbook were left in Knoxville.
A search of local hospitals and jails, which is a standard procedure in missing person cases, failed to reveal Faw's location.
Faw disappeared the morning of Thursday, Nov. 21 after taking a walk at 1:30 a.m. He told desk worker Bianca Bianconi he couldn't sleep because he had been thinking about a lot of things and that he would be back in an hour. Bianconi said that he only seemed to be tired, not upset.
Police consider the case closed, Cook said. Faw will send the detective a letter allowing him to clear the case from files at the National Crime Information Center. Faw's family has been notified of his location.
Phil Scheurer, vice chancellor for administration and student affairs, said that it is his understanding that Faw does not intend to return to UT. The Department of Residence Halls will have to provide a replacement for him for the remainder of the semester.
"Since we've only got a couple of weeks left, we will probably have to shift his duties to other hall staff," said Jim Grubb, director of residence halls. "Assuming he won't come back, we'll hire someone else. Tia Doxey (the Clement Hall director) will select someone to replace him for next semester."
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 24, 2004 13:45:43 GMT -5
A 26-year-old Arapahoe County woman who had been missing since Monday afternoon was found Tuesday evening at a fast-food restaurant in east Denver.
The woman, who suffers from serious medical ailments and is mentally handicapped, did not appear to be harmed when she was found about 6:30 p.m. at a Burger King restaurant near East Colfax Avenue and Quebec Street, Arapahoe County sheriff's deputies said. She was reunited with her family Tuesday evening.
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Post by LadyBlue on Sept 21, 2004 23:26:56 GMT -5
The remains of a woman found inside a submerged 1993 Chevy Suburban are believed to be that of Patricia Ann Medina, who has been missing since 2001.
Crews draining a retention pond in Thornton made the startling discovery Monday afternoon as they were pumping water out of the pond.
The woman's skeleton was found inside the vehicle which had license plates that matched the one she was last seen in.
Medina, 26, disappeared on Oct. 20, 2001, after leaving the Welcome Inn Bar, located at 3759 Chestnut Place in Denver with an unidentified man. She was last seen driving a Chevy Suburban with license plates that matched the one pulled from the pond.
Family members told detectives at the time that they felt foul play might be involved because it was very uncharacteristic for Medina not to contact them.
Detectives must wait for the results of DNA testing to make a positive identification. Officers said there were no obvious signs of damage to SUV.
The retention pond at 83rd and Dahlia is on fenced city property, but it's not clear if the fence was already in place when the vehicle entered the pond.
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Post by LadyBlue on Sept 30, 2004 10:52:01 GMT -5
Terry Johnson's body decomposed for two years near the top of Independence Pass as thousands of motorists drove by just a few hundred yards away.
Then Gerald Bennett, a hunter from Granby scouting the area out, found Johnson's jaw bone. Bennett called the sheriff's office in Leadville, and the mystery of Johnson, a Boulder man who disappeared in late September 2002, began to unravel.
According to the investigation report, Lake County Sheriff Ed Holte and two deputies hiked into the scene on Sept. 20 and found more of Johnson's remains, his mangled Mazda Miata and a fanny pack with his driver's license. They also found bone fragments, a belt buckle and remnants of his clothing.
The report indicates Johnson was traveling too fast to negotiate the final hairpin turn at the top of the east side of the pass. After losing control, he careened off the shoulder and over a cliff. The car continued down the mountainside until it hit a tree.
Diana Holte, dispatch supervisor for the Lake County Sheriff's Department, said Johnson and his car remained out of sight for so long because the forest and the geography conspired to hide the accident scene from everyone but the hunter.
The thick stand of trees that checked Johnson's fall kept his body and car hidden from drivers on the switchback below. And the cliff that Johnson and his Mazda Miata went over kept him from the sight of motorists coming down from the pass summit.
In the week after Johnson's body was found, the accident scene was secured and police brought in a dog trained to find people or body parts. "We found everything possible [of Johnson's remains]," Diana Holte said.
On Sunday, the car was hauled back up the cliff it carried Johnson over.
The investigation report indicates Johnson was traveling faster than the 30-mph speed limit when he lost control on that final turn. Signs leading up to the turn clearly indicate that it is extremely sharp and requires drivers to slow to 10 mph.
"If you don't do what the speed limit sign says, nine times out of 10 you're going to lose," Diana Holte said.
Johnson's jaw was sent to a lab in Jefferson County to confirm his identification with dental records.
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Post by LadyBlue on Oct 3, 2004 11:36:35 GMT -5
The body of a woman has been found buried in a backyard in Fountain. Police say the woman was in her mid-40's. Two arrests have already been made--Joseph Morris is being held on charges of first degree murder. His wife, Rebecca Morris, is accused of being an accessory to murder. As autopsy has not yet been performed on the victim.
Neighbors say the dead woman was Morris' mother. They say she was last seen in June, and had tried to kick-out Joseph and Rebecca because of drug use.
As police were digging up the body, they also found a discarded meth lab. Officers from the Metro Vice Unit of the Colorado Springs Police Department processed the lab.
This is the second murder of the year in Fountain. Typically, the city reports just one murder a year.
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Post by LadyBlue on Oct 23, 2004 13:29:10 GMT -5
The green Honda that a missing Douglas County woman was last driving was found Friday at the bottom of a golf-course pond.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Department expects to send divers into the water Saturday to find out if Quynh Tu Truong, 57, is inside the car.
An accident had occurred Wednesday on Lincoln Avenue just west of Yosemite Street near Rosemont Avenue, the same day Truong disappeared.
A woman suspected of driving under the influence had hit the Honda, said sheriff's Deputy Cocha Heyden.
The Honda went through a wrought-iron fence around a golf course in Heritage Estates and into the water.
The female driver left the scene of the accident in another car and did not appear to know that she had hit the Honda when she was interviewed by investigators, Heyden said.
The woman could face vehicular manslaughter charges if it's determined Truong is in the car and that the accident caused her death, Heyden said.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 1, 2004 11:24:30 GMT -5
A woman's skull found in northeastern Colorado has been identified as that of a hotel owner missing since 1997.
A rancher discovered the skull on Oct. 2 near the summit of Douglas Pass in western Garfield County. Dental records were used to identify it as that of Sabrina Bebb-Jones, 31, who had been missing since Sept. 16, 1997.
''Now, at least her fate is known to us,'' Grand Junction Police Chief Greg Morrison said Friday. ''It's no longer a case that's in limbo. We have a case with focus and direction.''
Bebb-Jones and her husband, Marcus Jones, owned the Hotel Melrose in Grand Junction. Her husband who was then 34, told police his wife left the city with the couple's then 3-year-old son after the couple argued at Mesa Mall.
He later told guests at the hotel he was headed to Las Vegas to look for Bebb-Jones, who grew up in the area.
The couple's son was found alone in a Las Vegas motel room on Sept. 21, 1997. The next day, Marcus Jones apparently tried to kill himself. He shot himself in the head, but the wound was not life-threatening, police said then.
He was granted conservatorship of Bebb-Jones' possessions in May 1998 and sold the hotel later that summer. He reportedly moved back to his native England to be with his son and mother.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 2, 2004 13:52:47 GMT -5
Dillon police have identified the body found Sunday at the Dillon Marina as that of 45-year-old Silverthorne resident Kathleen St. James.
Sgt. Wendy Kipple said St. James left her house after having an argument with her boyfriend Thursday evening and was reported missing on Friday.
Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson said the cause and manner of death is still being investigated and won't be known until the autopsy and toxicology reports are in, which could take up to two weeks.
A group of people out for a walk Sunday afternoon found St. James' body face down on the dock.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 12, 2004 20:07:06 GMT -5
The Adams County Coroner has officially confirmed the identity of a body discovered in an SUV found submerged in a retention pond in September.
The body has been identified as Patricia Ann Medina of Thornton. Medina's family reported her missing in Oct. 2001. The coroner didn't give a cause of death but did say the body likely had been submerged since the time Medina was reported missing.
Preliminary findings by investigators indicate that the death was accidental.
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Post by LadyBlue on Dec 13, 2004 20:07:19 GMT -5
Westminster police today released the identity of the woman whose body was found nearly two months ago near a trash bin with her hands cut off. The homicide victim has been identified as 26-year-old Catrina Rene Powell, police spokesman Tim Torres said. Powell's body was found Oct. 25 by trash haulers behind the Country Meadows strip mall at West 75th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard. The body was naked. "A family member tentatively identified the victim through the composite drawing obtained from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children," Torres said in a statement. The illustration was circulated by Denver-area news outlets. A final positive identification was made through dental records. Police said the homicide investigation into Powell's death is continuing. Powell was last seen alive in the area of East Colfax Avenue and Ogden Street on Oct. 24, Torres said. Anyone with information about Powell is asked to call the Westminster Police Department at 303-430-2400 and leave a message for the detectives assigned to the case. Detective Bernard Vonfeldt can be reached at extension 4248. Detective A.C. Stutson can be reached at extension 4252. www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2595160,00.html
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 2, 2005 13:14:18 GMT -5
Searchers said Wednesday they found the body of a snowshoer who disappeared on a family outing nearly five months ago.
A Mesa County Search and Rescue helicopter crew spotted Daniel Walker, 54, on Tuesday and ground crews were retrieving the body Wednesday, sheriff’s spokeswoman Susan McBurney said.
Walker, his wife and their daughter got lost on an outing on the 10,500-foot-high Grand Mesa in western Colorado on Jan. 9. He left them and their family dog in an attempt to find help.
Rescuers found his wife, Deborah, and 18-year-old Camille Walker two days later after they spent one night huddled under a tree and the next night in a snow cave they had dug out.
The search for Daniel Walker was called off days later, with overnight temperatures falling below zero with wind chills as low as minus-19 on the mesa.
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