Police say a mutual love of bingo brought two people together in a friendship that eventually turned sour and may have lead to the stabbing death of a grandmother in her own home.
Percy Sierra, 52, Denver, was found dead in her home on March 14, 2008. Police think she was murdered sometime the night before after a night of playing bingo with a friend at the Turn Bingo parlor near 54th & Sheridan.
Sierra’s daughter grew concerned when she couldn’t get her mother on the phone. She found Sierra stabbed to death in her apartment in the complex at 3431 W. 39th Ave.
“When this happened it was like everything broke apart, our lives just shattered completely,” said Sierra’s daughter Monique Cadena. “Our family is not complete anymore.”
Police think Sierra’s bingo partner, Audley ‘Earl’ Anglin murdered her when she refused to share her winnings from a gambling trip to Central City earlier in the week. Sierra’s family took her and Anglin gambling to celebrate their mother’s birthday.
Sierra and Anglin had an agreement to share all of their bingo winnings.
“They had an arrangement that if one of them won a prize they would split the money,” said Cadena who added Anglin had never been violent with her mother before.
But when she wouldn’t share the $500 she won playing slots with her birthday money, Sierra’s family said Anglin got angry. Witnesses at the bingo hall the night of the murder told family members and the police Anglin wasn’t “acting himself” that night.
Holding back tears, Cadena said, “the last time that they were at the bingo hall everyone said he (Anglin) was pretty upset.”
Police Det. Joe Delmonico told 9News officials believe Anglin went to Sierra’s home after an otherwise routine bingo night and then killed his friend.
Delmonico told 9NEWS, “I don’t think it was something he (Anglin) had planned, but I think it happened.”
Denver police believe Anglin fled the country before they could question him in connection with the murder.
Police also believe another friend or a member of Anglin’s family helped him escape to Jamaica where he is from.
“We have enough information if somebody could just tell us where he has been staying, it would be enough,” Delmonico said.
Anglin is described as 5’7″ tall, 160 pounds and has brown eyes and had a shaven head at the time of the murder. He is 39 years old.
If you know where Anglin is or know someone who does know where he is call Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867). If your information helps lead to an arrest, you could be eligible for a Crime Stoppers reward of up to $2000, and an addition $3000 offered by Sierra’s family.
Sierra’s four daughters hope finding Anglin will help their entire family move on.
“It’s crazy not knowing and its hurting our family and our grandmother, our kids, everybody and nothing is going to change until we start making progress on this,” her daughter Monique Cadena said while holding hands with her sisters, Shaleen Griego, Jennifer Lucero and Denise Solano
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