December 20, 1984Greeley, Colorado12-year-old Jonelle Matthews is taken from her home; her body will remain undiscovered for nearly 35 years Matthews was last seen on the night of December 20 after she sang Christmas carols with her school choir. She was taken home by a friend and the friend’s mother who watched Matthews walk into…
Teen kills mother and stepfather, either because of resentment over chores or prolonged abuse
October 26, 2009Monte Vista, ColoradoJohn Caudle (14) kills his mother and stepfather Caudle prepared for the shootings the night before, by taking two .22-caliber handguns from the home’s gun safe and stored them in his bedroom. When Caudle came home after school on October 26, he later told authorities, his mother Joanne Rinebarger (34) began…
Man kills wife, children, stages scene to appear wife had killed children in a murder-suicide
December 30, 1978 Littleton, Colorado Robert Spangler kills his wife Nancy and their children, David and Susan Robert had begun an affair with a woman named Sharon Cooper, putting strain on his marriage with Nancy, though the couple seemingly reconciled months before Nancy and her children were killed. In his confession to police decades later,…
Unsolved: two students who attended school during the Columbine shooting are killed during a robbery
February 14, 2000 Littleton, Colorado Nick Kunselman (15) and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell (16) are shot to death Kunselman and Hart-Grizzell (pictured) were dating at the time of their murders, and both were students of the nearby Columbine High School, which had infamously been the stage of a school shooting the previous April. On Valentine’s night, Kunselman…
Man kills, dismembers roommate’s body, is found with severed hands in his luggage
December 21, 1979 Denver, Colorado Lewis Roger Moore (30) kills his roommate William Charles Kidd (23), dismembers the body, and scatters the pieces Moore had been paralyzed while incarcerated at the age of 18, when he was stabbed in the back by a fellow inmate during a prison riot, resulting in his spinal cord being…
