After holding Doug Edwards hostage at gunpoint all night in his own home outside Boulder three years ago, James Michael Richards chose to let Edwards leave and then cleaned his house out of “respect,” a public defender told jurors this morning during opening statements of Richards’ trial.
About 14 hours after sneaking into Edwards’ home in the Heatherwood neighborhood on the night of Jan. 4, 2008, and forcing Edwards into the basement at gunpoint, Richards released Edwards’ feet and removed the handcuffs that he had used to chain him to support beams, public defender Kristi Sanders told the 12 jurors and two alternates.
Edwards told police that he escaped the morning after he was first confronted in his own garage by Richards, who was pointing a revolver at him, by yanking off the “sex-shop” handcuffs when Richards fell asleep. He said he ran out of the house, according to police, and Richards followed him.
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