Number 8 Arrest of Karen Garner On January the 26th of 2020,
Karen Garner left a Walmart, in Loveland, without paying for items that amounted to nearly $14.
73-year-old Garner suffered from dementia and sensory aphasia, a condition that involves
sufferers not understanding written or spoken language. Staff followed her out and took the
items from her, refused to allow her to pay for them and called the police after Garner pulled off
an employee’s facemask. The police later found the elderly woman picking wildflowers from a field on
the side of the road. First-year officer Austin Hopp aggressively moved in to arrest Garner,
who was frightened and confused. Hopp forcefully pulled her arms backwards and handcuffed her.
On multiple occasions, the woman said “I am going home” only to be repeatedly thrown to the ground
by Hopp, even though she only weighed around 80 pounds. Third-year officer Daria Jalali came to
assist Hopp and helped him hold Garner against the hood of the squad car. They ultimately hogtied the
elderly woman. A bystander who questioned the officers’ aggression was ordered to leave the
area. The senior citizen suffered a dislocated shoulder, a fractured arm, a sprained wrist and
bruises all over her body. The arresting officers failed to provide her with medical care for six
hours after she was taken into custody. To make matters worse, video surveillance
from the station would capture Hopp and Jalali laughing and fist bumping as they watched the
body cam footage from the arrest. They believed that they’d “crushed it” and Hopp described the
sound that Garner’s shoulder had made when he’d dislocated it. Garner’s family sued the officers
for use of excessive force and her attorneys released the body cam footage as well as the
surveillance footage from the station on YouTube, prompting a public outcry. In the aftermath,
Hopp and Jalali resigned and were charged by state prosecutors with a number of offences, including
second-degree assault and official misconduct. Number 7 Kelsey Berreth
29-year-old Kelsey Berreth was last seen on Thanksgiving Day, 2018, in the area of her
Woodland Park home. At the time, she was in the company of her fiancé, Patrick Frazee, who was
also the father of her 1-year-old daughter. The police found evidence of foul play and,
about a month after Berreth’s disappearance, they arrested 33-year-old Frazee as the main suspect in
her murder. He maintained that he was innocent but a series of gruesome revelations followed. The key
witness in the case was his ex-girlfriend, Krystal Lee, with whom he was reportedly having an affair.
Under a plea deal, Lee told the court that, on Thanksgiving Day, she’d received a call
from Frazee telling her there was a mess at Berreth’s home, which she needed to clean up.
Lee arrived to find blood on the living room floor, splattered on the walls, on kitchen
appliances, stuffed animals and other home items. It took Lee four hours to clean up the crime
scene, claiming she’d done so out of fear that Frazee would hurt her family. Berreth’s remains
were never found as, according to Lee, they took the body back to Frazee’s ranch and burned it.
Frazee opened up to Lee about the murder. He’d blindfolded Berreth with a sweater, under the
guise that he would have her guess the smell of scented candles. Then, as their young daughter sat
in a backroom, Frazee beat Berreth to death with a baseball bat. The motive remains unclear, but it’s
been speculated as a breakup and Frazee wanting to avoid a custody battle. He was ultimately
sentenced to life in prison plus 156 years. Number 6 David Smith
In 2016, a South Dakota man died after being struck by an avalanche near Wolf Creek Pass,
in southern Colorado. 23-year-old David Smith was snowmobiling with three companions when
he got stuck in a gully and triggered the slide on an eastern portion of the pass.
The group was caught in the avalanche with Smith being completely buried under the hard-packed
snow. A second snowmobiler was also partially trapped but managed to break free. The slide
occurred at around 4 pm and the group went to find emergency assistance but didn’t get
a cellphone signal until about two hours later. A rescue effort was mounted by local authorities and
other riders but Smith had already succumbed to his injuries by the time that help arrived.
Number 5 Suzanne Morphew Nearly a year after she’d gone missing,
on Mother’s Day 2020, the authorities arrested a man for the suspected murder of 49-year-old
Suzanne Morphew. Her disappearance was reported by a neighbor, after she’d gone for a bike ride and
never returned to her $1.7 million Chaffee County mansion. Suzanne’s husband, 52-year-old Barry,
was on a work trip to Denver and he told the authorities that she was asleep, at around 5 am,
when he left. He offered a $100,000 reward, which was matched by a family friend, and put out an
emotional video on social media pleading for the mother-of-two’s safe return, while holding back
tears. Yet, as the investigation progressed, Barry became the primary suspect in the disappearance of
his wife. It was revealed that she’d been having an extramarital affair, for nearly two years, with
a high school friend and that, in April, they’d been talking about moving to Ecuador together.
Texts exchanged between Suzanne and her friends also indicated that she no longer felt safe around
Barry, who’d allegedly shoved her and held a gun to her head. On the day that his wife was reported
missing, Barry was seen dumping items in various suburban Denver trash containers, a total of five
times. He reportedly had no reaction upon being shown surveillance photos of him doing so by the
authorities. Cellphone data placed his truck in the area from where his wife’s bicycle was
later recovered. Suzanne’s body was never found and the case is ongoing but, if found guilty,
Barry could be sentenced to life in prison. Number 4 Moose Trampling
In March of 2020, a woman was attacked by a young moose bull, near Breckenridge,
after she’d gotten too close to it. The unnamed victim, reported as being in her 50s, spotted the
moose, at around 6 pm, as it was blocking some residents from getting out of their vehicle.
She approached it and tried to guide it away only to be charged by the massive animal. The woman was
brutally trampled and suffered several broken bones. She was taken to a local hospital, where
doctors were able to stabilize her condition, and she was eventually able to give her account of the
incident to wildlife officers. They euthanized the bull, in accordance to agency regulations,
as most research indicates that once a wild animal displays aggression and attacks a human,
it’s likely to happen again. Number 3 Jepsy Kallungi
Dane and Jepsy Kallungi met through a dating app, in 2017, and got married after the latter moved
to Colorado Springs, from the Philippines. The wedding took place two years after Dane’s first
marriage had ended in divorce. 28-year-old Jepsy was last seen alive in March of 2019,
with her family reporting her missing the following month, after she’d gone silent in
their online communication. When questioned by the police, Dane claimed that he didn’t know anything
about her whereabouts. He stated that on March the 20th, between 11 pm and 12 am, she’d left him
after they’d had a fight. Dane told officers that he’d found text messages between her and someone
named “Travis” who she was planning to meet. Investigators later learned that he was one of
two soldiers at Fort Carson who Jepsy was seeing but could tie neither man to her disappearance.
The case went cold in January of 2020 and Dane moved to California. Officers interviewed him in
San Diego about a cellphone tower ping that placed him in the same area as Jepsy’s cellphone, five
days after their reported fight, but Dane invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. The
police was suspicious of him, after learning that he’d strangled his first wife, Alaine,
on five to seven separate occasions. However, the break in the case didn’t come until March of 2021,
more than two years after Jepsy had gone missing. Alaine called a detective and told him that Dane
was briefly returning to Colorado and that he’d asked if they could meet for lunch. She agreed
and, during the meet up, they had a conversation in which Dane confessed to her that he’d killed
Jepsy. Several days later, Alaine set up a phone call with Dane, while a detective was listening
and recording. He revealed the full story of the killing and how he’d strangled Jepsy to
“literally stop the words from coming out of her mouth for a second”. Dane then realized that he’d
squeezed her throat for too long and had “done some damage”. He put her in the trunk of his
car and drove to the Florissant area where he dug a hole, as deep as he could, until
3 in the morning. It was there that he dumped her body. Based on the recorded conversation,
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Number 2 Bear Mauling in Garage In late May of 2021, a Colorado man was severely
mauled by a bear in his garage, near Steamboat Springs. The incident occurred at around 11 pm,
on a Sunday, when the unnamed victim noticed the open garage door and went to close it. Inside,
he saw a mother bear with two cubs. The homeowner tried backing away, at which point the sow charged
him, most likely as a way of protecting its young. The animal bit and clawed the man,
inflicting deep cuts to his legs and head, before fleeing the premises. He was rushed
to a local hospital and required surgery but was expected to survive. It was later revealed that
the victim had stored birdseed and other items that could attract bears inside the garage. The
sow was hunted down in the aftermath, by wildlife officials, and traps were set up for the cubs,
with the intention of relocating them. Number 1 United Bank Tower Robbery
On Father’s Day, 1991, a violent bank robbery occurred at the United Bank Tower, currently
called the Wells Fargo Center, in Denver. The bank had recently changed its policy, requiring guards
to be unarmed. At around 9 am, a man falsely claiming to be a Vice President at the bank,
asked to enter through a side freight elevator. A guard rode the elevator up to meet him
and was held at gunpoint when the doors opened. The guard was forced to take him to an area of
the bank located below the basement. It was there that the robber killed the guard, hid his body
in a storage room and made off with his access card. He then kept moving through the tunnels and
reached the basement area, which housed the guard room and the vault. He killed three more guards,
two of whom he ambushed inside their station and one who’d returned to it after hearing gunshots.
Throughout the killing spree, he’d fired a total of eighteen bullets on the guards,
only one of which had failed to reach its targets. He then erased traces of his presence
from the crime scene by removing his shell casings, pages from the guard logbooks and
surveillance videotapes. The robber made his way into the vault, where six tellers were
processing cash deliveries. They were ordered to lie on the floor with their eyes closed and
the senior vault manager was told to fill a satchel with cash from the work stations.
One curious aspect was that only about $200,000 was taken even though $2 million were available in
the cash room and vault. The tellers would later describe the suspect as a man in his 50s or 60s,
with a bandage on his cheek, who was wearing mirrored sunglasses and a brown fedora along
with a gray sports coat and blue or gray slacks. After the satchel was filled, the robber locked
the employees into a mantrap, an access room with interlocking doors, and made his escape.
In the ensuing investigation, the authorities focused their attention on James King,
a retired Denver police officer and former guard at the bank. He’d left the job ten months prior
to the robbery and was in massive debt. A search of his home found no evidence to concretely link
him to the crime. The only suspicious items were a detailed map of the bank, in a folder marked
“plans”, as well as several fake IDs showing King’s picture and various aliases. The latter
were dismissed by a judge since it couldn’t be proven King had used the IDs illegally. A jury
ultimately acquitted him of all charges after 53 hours of deliberations. The FBI kept King under
surveillance for years after the trial, hoping more evidence would turn up but nothing ever did.
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