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for being here today we're discussing how DNA connected and solved four different cold cases
in Denver from a spree serial killer active in the late 70s to the early 80s let's get into it
on December 7 1978 in Denver Colorado Antonio livadez arrived home from work at
6 pm he instantly knew something was wrong his nine-month-old daughter was in swing on a back
porch alone and his three-year-old was watching TV in the dark Antonio immediately went upstairs and
looked in his bedroom and found his wife 33 year old Madeleine foray Liva days in a pool of blood
Madeline Antonio married in Philadelphia where Madeline had worked for a children's
nature magazine called Ranger Rick and research for the magazine let her travel the world she
had her two daughters in Philadelphia and wrote a children's science book
the family had recently moved to Denver Colorado where Antonio got a job at an architectural office
at the crime scene it was discovered that Madeline had been stabbed several times and there
were other details of the case being withheld but law enforcement confirmed that there were
sexual elements in addition to the stabbing there was no sign of forth's Entry so it is believed
that her attacker had knocked on the door then forced their way into the home and made her go
to the bedroom there the assailant stabbed her the two children were not harmed in the attack
authorities had no leads and said that at the time that Madeleine had been killed authorities
had been hampered by several unsolved murders and resources had been stretched thin they did state
that Madeleine's murder was unrelated to all their other cases several samples of forensic
evidence were taken and stored but as it was 1978 there was not much they could do with DNA evidence
two years later on Sunday August 10 1980 Denver Police responded to a call on the
500 block of East 17th Street to a report of a woman lying in the road
responding officers discovered 53-year-old Dolores Barajas who suffered multiple stab wounds Dolores
died at the scene before medical help arrived Dolores had been walking on her way to work
at the Fairmont Hotel she had recently moved to Denver for the summer to visit family originally
from El Paso Texas that day was supposed to be her last shift of work before moving back to
Texas she was a mother a grandmother and very much loved by her family the senseless attack had left
law enforcement baffled and for many years there had been no connection to Madeleine's murder case
later that year another woman was found on December 24 1980. she could
not be identified at the time but was later identified as 27 year old Gwendolyn Harris
gwendolyn's body was found with multiple stab wounds money was still on her body eliminating
robbery as motive Gwen had last been seen at the Apollo Club Lounge on December 20th
four days before her body had been found again little Headway was made in solving her murder
forensic evidence was collected and stored and because it had been so different from
Madeleine and Dolores murder the three cases were not connected then on January 24 1981 a
teenager named Antoinette Parks was found dead in a field next to 64th Avenue and Broadway in Denver
Annette was stabbed 23 times she had been a 17 year old high school student she loved
children and hoped to work with kids someday Antoinette was just over six months pregnant
at the time of her death her family said that she'd been very excited to be a mother herself
after exhausting All Leads and evidence from these cases all four cases would go cold
the circumstances of the cases had all been different Madeline had been murdered in her
home when a man presumably walked up to her door barged in during broad daylight and attacked
her while her children were also in the home Dolores had been attacked in the street in the
early morning hours Gwen had been abducted on her way home in the very early morning
hours and Antoinette a teenager was abducted on her way home from school and dumped in a field
in 2004 Denver Police started a dedicated Cold Case crime unit they began to look at the cases
of all four women in 2013 they got their first connection DNA evidence collected Dolores and
Madeleine to the same killer two years later in 2015 authorities could also connect Harris to
that killer and finally in 2018 Parks was added to the list of victims of the same assailant in
2014 the Denver Police Department used genealogy DNA services to locate relatives of the killer in
Texas after working with Texas departments in 2021 they came up with a suspect Joseph Michael Irvin
additionally they also discovered that he was wanted on a murder charge in Texas and had an
extensive criminal history in 1969 Irvin who was 17 at the time was at a local bowling alley when
he and an unidentified friend walked up to a car of 21 year old Rodney Bonham Irvin asked Rodney
and his passenger a question the confrontation turned hostile and Irvin pulled a gun and shot
Rodney in the neck Irvin then asked the passenger if they could drive the passenger then managed to
close the door and run to the bowling alley to call for help after four days in the hospital
Rodney bottom died from the gunshot Irvin is said to have called the family after Rodney had died
saying quote I'm sorry he's dead but we all have to go sometime I'm sorry I shot him end quote
it is then believed that he had fled to Colorado according to criminal records in Colorado he had
been arrested in 1970 for a slew of burglaries and sexual assaults including the sexual assault
of a 10 year old girl he was acquitted by reason of insanity and was sent to a mental hospital in
Pueblo Colorado but was released on a conditional bail in 1977. then on June 27 1981 Aurora PD
officer 26 year old Deborah Sue core pulled over a man that she believed was intoxicated
she radioed in her location the man's name and license plate number asking
for help in the arrest she was in the process of arresting the man when he managed to break free
there was a scuffle and in the struggle the man managed to get a hold of Deborah's service weapon
at this time a local man named Glenn spies was driving by and stopped to help the suspect shot
Deborah in the head and Glenn in the back before fleeing the scene when police arrived Deborah was
declared deceased Deborah had just completed her first year as an officer and was married
to a fellow officer this would be Aurora PD's first line of duty shooting and forever changed
the Department's patrolling alone policy Glenn was also rushed to the hospital where he was
able to recover from his wounds unfortunately the bullet exploded near his spine and it would
cost him the ability to join the police force as he walked with a limp and lived in constant pain
in July 1981 the Aurora city council awarded him ten thousand dollars for his heroism and sacrifice
police found the temporary driver's license of the man that Deborah had pulled over in
her patrol vehicle and identified him as Joe irwing they went to his address and found Joe
there trying to get off his handcuffs by sawing his wrist Joe irwing was arrested
five days later on July 1st 1981 Joe Irwin who at the time was 30 years old hung himself while
in solitary cell in Adams County jail he left a suicide note which said quote to the Denver
Community I pray that I will be forgiven for taking up your time for my sickening Behavior
to the kid in the hospital and Miss core I didn't mean what I did I was so uptight forgive me
and it was signed Joe irwing after his arrest police discovered that he was currently out on
bail for sexual assault from 1980. after the suicide police also discovered that there had
been a mistake during his bail hearing when putting his name into the computer
database authorities had put his birth year as 1952 when he was born in 1951.
when police put the correct information into the database Joe irwing came up as an alias his real
name was Joseph Michael everen and he was wanting a connection to a murder in Texas and finally
connecting him to the four unsolved cold cases in Denver and the murdered police officer in Aurora
after exhausting all efforts to find a catalog piece of DNA from Irvin Denver and Texas
authorities petitioned the court to exhume his body and get a DNA sample the courts approved
the exclamation of Irving in 2022 and shortly after the Denver Police Department officially
announced that Irvin was a serial killer connected to the killings of these four women in Denver
after 40 years the families and the Denver Community have answers to these coal cases
some of the family members had these statements to say after finding out well I'd like to say
this is taking a long time we can finally have peace knowing who did this to my little sister
me and my brother are the only remaining siblings of six children
I wore a short today in memory of all my siblings
and I lost these two sisters they were the oldest one in 2018 to a car wreck
on Francis Knox here in Denver the second one died from heartbreak from the car wreck
um like of course you guys know my little sister Antoinette died in 81 and my little sister Rhonda
who was her she passed last year September 9th to cancer so with that being said I'd like you guys
to know we have closure we're thankful for the hard work determination of everybody involved here
with my sisters and my mom could all be here to see this fortunately they
didn't live long enough to see this but I know they're here with us in
spirit and I want to say thank you guys for all coming to take the time to listen to us
about hello my name is Carl and uh you know a lot of my brother said you know
it's been a long time coming and now we can actually you know really rest better at night
like I said the rest of them they're not here like I said my mom or my sister was here but I
know they are because they're sitting high and looking low and they're saying right now hey
thank you guys every last one of you for everything anybody had anything to do with this
believe me they're saying thank you and God bless you all
good morning my sister Ariel and I wanted to take time today to express our gratitude to
the Denver Police Department and all agencies and individuals involved over the years for
all the hard work and the sacrifice in solving this series of horrific crimes
we are here to talk about our mother Madeleine Fury live day she was a young woman with a very
bright future she was a writer she had written for nature magazines for years and had written
and published a book she was an ecologist with a passion for the natural world and the environment
she was a loving wife sister daughter and mother to two very young girls but in 1978 she had that
bright future ripped away from her tragically we didn't get to grow up with her and to hear her
stories and to witness the contributions that she could have made to the world
it's been a lot of information to absorb so suddenly after all this time
we found out that this man murdered four more women any assaulted an uncounted number of others
in addition to learn about the line of duty death of Officer Deborah Sue core
has been personally very impactful she was out doing her job when she attempted to arrest this
serial killer for an unrelated crime and in the course of his arrest she was murdered herself
but with her sacrifice she prevented him from killing anyone else and it's clear that he
wasn't going to stop on his own she stopped him the police stopped him back in 1981.
and for that for officer Corps sacrifice of her life we are thankful
finally I would like to reflect on how the Denver Police Department
has proven today that it won't stop hunting for the Predators Among Us
for US citizens who are like my mother was just home feeding our children breakfast
or walking to the bus stop or home from school
for us the dpd Cold Case unit and the Denver crime lab and the Denver DA's office had said have said
you're not going to get away with it we're going to find you
and for that we are here today to say thank you it is a great relief to our family to finally
have this resolution and to know that they never stopped working towards that goal for us
thank you England's sisters are all out of town and asked me to extend this statement
on their behalf so on behalf of Eileen Fury Roy Tess Fury and Megan Fury Kinney
Madeline had a vibrant and curious Spirit she was fearlessly adventurous and loved traveling as part
of her job as an editor of the children's magazine Ranger Rick she loved learning every Elementary
School report card had a notation saying something like excellent student but talks too much
Madeline was fun and she delighted in her daughter's Molly and baby Ariel
she was a romantic who loved her life but when her daughters were born she was over the moon
one sweet memory we have is that she used to sing to her Girls the songs Stevie Wonder wrote
when his daughter was born Isn't She Lovely she could never have imagined leaving them
it is an unmitigated tragedy that they never got to know their creative and talented mother
Lyn was loved and admired by her family and all who knew her we will never stop missing her
Denver PD are currently going through old cold cases and looking for additional victims of
sexual assault or murder and believe Irvin had more victims that are currently unknown
while it is Bittersweet to not have Justice in this case hopefully the victims and their
families can rest easier knowing that this Predator isn't here anymore to hurt anyone else
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