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Kirk Mitchell
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.
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Investigators used familial DNA to identify suspect in 1981 murder of teen hitchhiker
In what may be the first DNA genealogical cold-case murder solved in Colorado, a man who died seven years ago has been identified as a suspect who picked up an...

This week’s Friday the 13th will have a rare full moon — which only happens once every 20 years
A full moon will appear this Friday the 13th -- a convergence of time and space that happens only about once every 20 years.

This week’s Friday the 13th will have a rare full moon — which only happens once every 20 years
A full moon will appear this Friday the 13th -- a convergence of time and space that happens only about once every 20 years.

Denver weather: Widely scattered afternoon rain showers Tuesday
Denverites can bask in warm temperatures under mostly sunny skies Tuesday before the arrival of scattered showers and thunderstorms in the late afternoon.

Denver shooting leaves one person injured
Denver police are investigating a shooting in which one person was injured late Monday night.

Suspect to be identified in 38-year-old cold case death of 18-year-old female hitchhiker
A suspect who allegedly picked up an 18-year-old hitchhiker, bludgeoned her to death and dumped her body in Genesee Park in August of 1981 has been identified.

Bear cub crushed when dumpster toppled onto its neck in Jefferson County
A mother bear was likely climbing into an Indian Hills dumpster in Jefferson County when it tipped over onto her cub and the weight of the sow crushed its neck.

1 killed, 1 injured in Thornton double shooting
Thornton police are asking anyone who may have information about a Sunday morning double shooting that left one man dead and a second man injured to come forward.

Hunt fire near Meeker grows to 2,574 acres
The Hunt fire burning in northwest Colorado is now at 2,574 acres and could expand as temperatures rise.

Lake County coroner indicted on misconduct charge after allegedly sending wife on death investigations
Lake County Coroner Shannon Kent has been indicted on a petty criminal offense after he allegedly sent his wife to respond to numerous death investigations