BOULDER — A man and woman were discovered dead in a home in a north Boulder neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.
Boulder police were releasing few details as they waited for a search warrant and for a coroner to identify the two adults, police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said.
A 911 call at 3 p.m. summoned police to the home in the 3100 block of 23rd Street, but Huntley wouldn’t say who made the call.
The home is owned by Robert and Katelin Oakley.
Neighbors said that Robert Oakley, 39, was a cabdriver who lived in the house with his two children and that it was his car still parked in the driveway Wednesday evening.
The two children were not at home when the bodies were found, Huntley said.
“We’ve located them, and they’re safe,” said Huntley, who would not say where the children were at the time of the deaths. Police also would not say how the two people died.
“We’re telling the neighbors that we believe what happened is confined to this home,” Huntley said.
Neighbors said “Katie” Oakley, 30, moved out last year. She has been a securities lawyer for the Denver law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs. The Boulder Daily Camera reported that she had resigned March 20.
The firm’s online biography of Oakley, which was removed from its website Wednesday evening, stated that she represented industries such as mining, real estate, technology, and oil-and-gas exploration and production.
A next-door neighbor, who wanted to be identified only as Emily, said Robert Oakley’s car left the home Wednesday morning and later returned, but neither she nor her roommate saw who was driving.
“It’s shocking,” she said. “They were really nice people, the father and the children. The mother didn’t live there.”
A neighbor said the Oakleys were divorced, and state records show the divorce papers were filed last year.
“I would see them come and go,” Sam Miller said of the father and children.
“He was a cabdriver, so he came and went at all hours, but he was always friendly. If you’re in the yard, he would throw up his hand and wave.”
Police are asking anyone with information to call 303-441-3330 during regular business hours or 303-441- 3333 after hours.
