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.
Aurora police want Denver metro parents to ask their kids about possible contacts with a man charged with child sexual assault and exploitation of a teenage boy.
An Aurora police officer has been sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to charges of driving under the influence and prohibited use of a weapon while drunk.
Jefferson County officials announced the identities of two men found shot to death Tuesday morning in the Olinger Mount Lindo Cemetery and said they do not believe a third party...
The Denver Zoo's newest lion cub made his first public appearance Wednesday morning on Predator Ridge to the adoration of hundreds of excited visitors, zoo officials said.
Westminster SWAT officers serving a search warrant by entering a home early Wednesday morning shot and injured a suspect after the man pointed a gun at them.