The innkeeper at a Morrison bed and breakfast may have had a close call Thursday morning when a man suspected in a kidnapping and the death of 73-year-old Denver man stopped by her business.
Surveillance video shows William Lornes, 24, at the Arrowhead Manor Inn & Event Center near U.S. 285 in Morrison.
The inn is near the area where police found an abandoned car matching the one Lornes allegedly stole after kidnapping a woman at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center the afternoon of April 13
Lornes is also accused of killing Gerald Schwartzman, whose body was found in a trash bin in an alley between Grape and Hudson streets the night of April 13.
Innkeeper Marguerite Herb said a man matching Lornes’ description rang the doorbell at 2 a.m. Thursday. Herb spoke with the man via an intercom security system that allowed her to also watch him on a screen.
Herb said the man seemed calm, and she offered to call him a cab or help him get a room at a hotel farther down the road.
“He didn’t look like a bad guy,” Herb said. “I didn’t have a super-bad feeling.”
Herb said she did not let the man in because she was concerned about sending her 24-year-old son up alone as well as disturbing guests. Instead, she called the man a cab. Lornes was arrested after a deputy spotted him riding in a cab. Jordan Steffen, The Denver Post
