ASPEN — The Pitkin County district attorney’s office says that a year after a family’s deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning, the case remains important to authorities despite a lack of action so far by a grand jury.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Arnold Mordkin said last week that a grand jury was convened earlier this year, in part, to consider the deaths of Parker and Caroline Lofgren of Denver and their two children, ages 8 and 10.
The Lofgrens were found dead the day after last Thanksgiving in an Aspen-area home where they were spending the holiday.
Investigators say a disconnected exhaust pipe leaked the odorless gas into the house. The home didn’t have a carbon monoxide detector even though a county ordinance required one.
A state law approved by the legislature this year requires that all new or sold residential properties have carbon-monoxide alarms installed on each floor of the site. Rental units are required to add the alarms when tenants change.
