Aurora police arrested a second suspect Thursday in the homicide case stemming from the discovery of a body found encased in concrete in a clandestine crawl space grave beneath a condominium.
Haskel Leroy Crawford, 38, was arrested and will face a charge of first-degree murder. He was in the Jefferson County Jail and was being held on $100,000 bond, the Aurora Police Department announced in a news release. Crawford also faces homicide charges from an unrelated incident, the police said.
On Tuesday, police arrested Casie Bock, 29, for investigation of being an accessory to homicide, Aurora . She was being held without bond pending her first court appearance.
The victim in the case is identified as 36-year-old Karl Beaman Jr., according to an arrest affidavit for Bock.
His body was discovered Monday after Aurora police received a Crime Stoppers tip about a homicide that occurred about six to eight months ago, according to the release. The tip described the victim as a 36-year-old man who was missing since the summer of 2022, and that the body was buried in a crawl space and covered in concrete.
Investigators followed up on the tip and with a search warrant uncovered the body in the 14600 block of East 2nd Avenue, the Red Sky Condos, police said.
According to the arrest affidavit, Crawford killed Beaman inside the apartment and forced Bock to help him bury the body in the crawlspace. Investigators believe the killing happened sometime between June 19 and Sept. 19, 2022.
According to the affidavit, Crawford is the father of Bock’s two children, and the two men are described as “best friends” in the court document. One of the children referred to Beaman as “Uncle Karl.”
Crawford and Beaman were suspects together in several crimes, including an alleged catalytic converter theft, according to the affidavit. Crawford, Beaman and Bock were all named suspects in a May 9, 2022, motor vehicle theft case out of Castle Rock. Crawford was being held in the Jefferson County jail in connection to an attempted murder investigation when he was arrested by Aurora police as a suspect in Beaman’s death.
Crawford suspected Beaman of being a police informant, according to the affidavit. They got into an altercation in the apartment and Crawford killed Beaman, the affidavit stated.
Police were alerted about the body by Beaman’s mother, Kyla Dubberstein, 57, of Phoenix, according to the affidavit. Dubberstein had started a . She told investigators that she hadn’t heard from her son since May of 2022, on Mother’s Day. She said his absence was unusual, that they typically spoke every other week before he went silent.
In July she reported Beaman missing to the Arvada Police Department, but no report was filed. She created the Facebook page and reached out to people she thought were friends of Beaman’s but didn’t hear back, until recently.
A detailed tip was left on the Facebook page and Dubberstein contacted Aurora police on Saturday and investigators pursued the development.
The initial Facebook tip was made by a woman identified as “Sierra,” a neighbor of Bock’s, the affidavit said. An investigator interviewed Sierra Marquardt on Monday and reaffirmed the tip while gathering additional details.
Marquardt told the investigator that she met Bock because they have children who attended the same school. About three months ago, Bock asked Marquardt if she could watch her children and take them to school. Marquardt agreed to help; she “recognized that (Bock) was likely on methamphetamine,” according to the affidavit.
In March, Bock was spiraling downward, “clearly high on methamphetamine and was ‘freaking out’ talking about people inside her walls,” the affidavit said. Bock told Marquardt that Crawford and Beaman were good friends but Crawford suspected Beaman of being a police informant and they got into an altercation.
Initially, Marquardt, who had never met Beaman or Crawford, was skeptical of Bock’s story, suspecting that Bock’s drug use was making her delusional. One of the children, however, told Marquardt that “she missed Karl and Karl wasn’t around anymore,” the affidavit said.
The child’s statement piqued Marquardt’s curiosity, so she did online research and found the Facebook page.
Crawford is expected to be formally charged with Beaman’s death on April 17 and Bock is expected to be charged on April 11, according to the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office.
The excavation is expected to last till the end of this week, according to the release.
: Detectives from our Major Crimes Homicide Unit are at the Red Sky Condos, 14600 E. 2nd Ave, investigating an incident where a body has been found. We are gathering details about the circumstances and will be publishing a news release later today.
— Aurora Police Dept (@AuroraPD)
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