Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.
A 34-year-old Denver man being held for investigation of first-degree murder for shooting another person in a dispute over money is claiming self defense, according to a Denver Police Department...
While stabbing Tangie Lynn Sims, her killer cut himself and left his own blood in an Aurora alley in the fall of 1996. Ultimately, the blood helped police and other...
Mountain travelers will be delayed on Interstate 70 on Wednesday as Colorado transportation employees conduct rockfall mitigation just east of Idaho Springs following a series of recent rockslides, state officials...
A Jefferson County jury found a 29-year-old Lakewood woman guilty for her role in kidnapping a woman believed to be a snitch, torturing her with cigarettes and injecting her with...