BOULDER, Colo.-
A man arrested in the slaying of a Lafayette woman said they tried twice to dispose of the body weeks before she was found stuffed inside the trunk of her car, according to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday.
The affidavit also provides a detailed account provided by a friend, 18-year-old Jared Guy, of how 52-year-old Linda Damm died. Guy’s hometown was unclear and police did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press.
It was unclear whether Guy had retained an attorney.
Police found Damm’s body in the trunk of her car Feb. 27 and arrested her 15-year-old daughter, the daughter’s 17-year-old boyfriend and a 16-year-old boy. Police said Damm had been dead for about a month.
Guy was arrested Friday after police came to talk to him at a school dance in Westminster.
The 17-year-old boyfriend was being held on suspicion of first-degree murder while the other three teens, including Guy, were suspected of being accessories to murder, the affidavit said.
Guy said the 17-year-old boyfriend told him Damm was drunk one night and chasing her daughter around the house, according to the affidavit. When the boyfriend arrived, he saw Damm choking her daughter and separated the two. The boyfriend told Guy that Damm came at him with a knife, which he wrestled away and used to stab Damm, the affidavit said.
In early February, two of the teens tried to dump Damm’s body in a landfill in Erie but got stuck in mud on the way and turned around, the affidavit said. The next night, three of the teens buried the body at a cemetery in Boulder, fled when they thought they spotted police, then returned to retrieve the body when they felt the body wasn’t buried well enough, the affidavit said.
Police said Guy remembered the date because they were talking about how Valentine’s Day was about a week away.
The teens were scheduled to appear in Boulder County Court on Wednesday.
It was unclear whether they would be charged as adults or juveniles.
