Boulder County prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for Diego Olmos Alcalde, who is accused of beating Suzanna Chase to death in 1997.
“They reviewed the (sentencing) statute, compared it with the facts in the case, consulted with the Boulder police department and talked with the Chase family and based on that the decision was made,” said Carolyn French, spokeswoman for the Boulder County district attorney’s office.
Alcalde is accused of bludgeoning Chase, 23, with a baseball bat and leaving her to die in an alley a block from her Boulder home Dec. 21, 1997.
Police arrested Alcalde in January after the Colorado Bureau of Investigation alerted them that a DNA sample in the FBI’s database matched DNA found on Chase’s body.
Tom McGhee: (303)954-1671 or tmcghee@denverpost.com
