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GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A former Nevada prison inmate was found guilty of murder on Thursday, his second conviction in a long unsolved killing involving a hammer in the Denver area nearly 40 years ago.
Ewing was convicted in the Bennett family slaying last year. He's now on trial for a similar hammer attack in Jefferson County also in 1984.
Alex Ewing was convicted in the 1984 killing of the Bennett family. He's currently on trial for the killing of Patricia Smith in Lakewood.
Smith was beaten to death in Lakewood in 1984 weeks before the Bennett family was killed in Aurora. Alex Ewing was linked to both cases by DNA in 2018.
Smith was fatally attacked with a hammer in January 1984 days before the attack in Aurora on the Bennett family. Ewing was convicted in that attack.