The 21-year-old man suspected of killing an 87-year-old former church deacon and burning her body once claimed he was a “new man” while apologizing for a burglary on the city’s south side.
“I just dropped by to see if there’s anything I can do to make what I did up to you,” read Marcus Smith’s apology letter for a 2009 burglary, according to an arrest affidavit. “I am a new man and I don’t want to quit until you feel I have repayed you.”
Smith was most recently arrested Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder in what neighbors fear was a deadly break-in inside a south Colorado Springs gated community. He is slated to be advised of his rights at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
He is suspected of killing Kathryn “Kit” Grazioli and burning her body early Wednesday morning at the Lower Captain Jack’s Trailhead, off of Lower Gold Camp Road in west Colorado Springs.
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