Last week marked fourteen years since the unsolved killing of Ken Gorman, a hero in the marijuana-reform movement and it s hardly the only Mile High murder that has not yet led to an arrest. Indeed, it s incredibly rare for justice to be done on behalf of Denver victims of the ultimate crime, as well as their friends, family and loved ones, years or even decades after the fact.
Proof can be found on the portion of the Denver Police Department website devoted to cold-case homicides. The page includes murders dating back to 1970, more than fifty years ago. Of the 767 listed, only nineteen are designated as solved, while 748 are categorized as unsolved. An investigation is typically dubbed a cold case if it remains unsolved for three years or more.
Daybreak, her husband, Tyler Tysdal, is in the midst of a serious legal battle. On Thursday, February 18, he s scheduled for two appearances in Denver District Court involving a combined seventy counts connected to alleged financial malfeasance. Among the reported victims is a former National Football League all-pro quarterback.
The first of the hearings is a status conference related to a December 2019 grand jury indictment. Carolyn Tyler, spokesperson for the Denver District Attorney s Office, spells out the specifics, using abbreviations for the classifications of several felonies: Mr. Tysdal is charged with 67 counts. . The highest charge is violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (F2). He is also charged with multiple counts of securities fraud (F3), conspiracy to commit securities fraud (F4) and one count of theft (F2).
The Denver District Attorney s Office recently announced that it would try Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour, both sixteen, as adults for a case of arson that killed five people in August 2020. But that doesn t mean that they ll actually be prosecuted as adults or even if they are, that the process moves forward in a timely manner.
Take the case of Montbello resident Jennie Bunsom, who had just marked her sixteenth birthday in August 2018 when the Denver DA s office announced that she would be prosecuted as an adult in the death of Jordan Vong, her seven-year-old nephew. More than two years later, Bunsom s anticipated move out of the juvenile system still hasn t happened; a hearing on the matter that was originally expected to take place in mid-2019 is now scheduled for next month.
Two of the three teenagers arrested in connection with a house fire in Denver that killed five recent immigrants from Senegal, including two children, have been charged as adults, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The Denver District Attorney s Office has announced that Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour, a pair of sixteen-year-olds arrested last week in the arson deaths of five people in August 2020, will be charged as adults, but a third, fifteen-year-old suspect is set for prosecution in the juvenile system.
These decisions demonstrate how DAs try to balance public demands for justice in heinous cases involving underage individuals against the recognition that those accused of committing the crimes are technically still children. Similar dynamics came into play in the cases of at least fifteen other teens charged as adults for murders that took place in Colorado dating back to the early 1990s.