Miriam Helmick News Today

After 17 years on the bench, District Judge Valerie Robison is retiring this fall.

A Whitewater woman serving a life sentence in the 2009 murder of her husband won’t see any part of her 12-count conviction reduced, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

Dunte Lamont Holmes brutally stabbed Mitchell Jones to death at his Georgia home. The cops were able to track the killer with Google data.

Miriam Helmick shot dead husband Alan Helmick and then tried to steal the identity of his previous wife, who had died years beforehand.

Michelob ultra. the superior light beer. investigators now believed that alan helmick might have been murdered not by an angry business associate but by his second wife, miriam.

Capture the purchase. during her trial, miriam took the stand in her own defense. trial watchers said her performance did more harm than good. >> i held his hand for a few minutes and tried to make some sense of it all. >> in speaking with the jury, when i asked what was your impression with her, about six people answered together and said "liar." >> we, the jury, find the defendant, miriam helmick, guilty of first-degree murder. >> miriam helmick was sentenced to life in prison, plus 108 years....

Several drawers were pulled out, and the jewelry box was empty. but there was no forced entry. so that theory was quickly ruled out. >> it was not consistent with other burglary cases that i have worked. the rest of the house was not ransacked as you would expect to find in most of the burglary cases that weve worked. >> since miriam helmick found the body, she was automatically considered a suspect, but she willingly agreed to take a gunshot residue test. anyone who fires a gun usually comes in...

Was delivered. it was a cash purchase at a store 13 miles from the helmicks house. detectives asked to see the stores surveillance tapes. >> lo and behold, who is purchasing the greeting card? its miriam helmick. >> based on her haircut, her glasse the way she walked, her body shape, theres no doubt in our mind that it was miriam helmick. >> miriam was confronted with the surveillance image. >> she did admit to placing the card at her house. her explanation was to get law enforcement to refocus ...

>> also strange was miriams explanation as to why jack committed suicide. >> she said yes, he was very depressed because of her daughter, amy who had supposedly overdosed. miriam changed that story when she told it to me quite a few times. it was overdose once and one time it was some sort of physical ailment. >> records showed miriam was the beneficiary of jack giles $100,000 life insurance policy. while trying to solve the murder of miriams second husband, alan helmick, investigators found a s...

When police checked her background, they discovered something suspicious. six years earlier, miriams first husband, jack giles, shot himself to death while he was sleeping next to her. >> anytime you hear that a woman has more than one husband die of a gunshot wound to the head, you get concerned. >> and colorado investigators soon discovered something odd about this suicide. for one thing, it was miriams half-brother, a local policeman, who was first on the scene and declared the death a suicid...