CENTENNIAL — Aaron Thompson of Aurora is on trial in Arapahoe County District Court for the death of his daughter Aaroné, who was reported missing in 2005. The girl would have been 6 years old at the time of her disappearance. Her body has not been found.
Electronic devices cannot transmit from the courtroom, but The Denver Post is providing trial updates when possible.
Noon. Court recesses for the weekend.
10:08 a.m. Detective Hal Selden takes the stand and tells the jury about when the children were taken from the home on Nov. 17, 2005, three days after Aaroné was reported missing, and police were waiting for a search warrant for the home.
As they waited for the warrant, Thompson asks Selden: “So does this mean you’re not going to be looking for Aaroné?”
He replies that they will still continue the search for the girl. Selden tells the jury: “He had a defeated look on his face” at that point.
Then Shelley Lowe, Thompson’s live-in girlfriend, glared at Thompson as if she was upset that he asked the question.
9:30 a.m. Day six of the trial gets underway with the continuation of the video of the police interview with Rajon Russell, Lowe’s brother, who also lived at the home.
The interview is approaching the fifth hour, and by now, Russell, who was 15 at the time, is tired.
One of the unanswered questions in the case is why Lowe and Thompson decided to call police on Nov. 14, 2005, and tell them that Aaroné ran away, even though police believe she died two years earlier.
Detective Terrance Allen offers his opinion while he is interviewing Russell. Allen believes that because Lowe was eight months pregnant, family members would be visiting soon, so they had to come up with something fast.
“It’s going to be hard for Shelley and Big A to explain it, so they made up the story,” Allen said.
