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.
Lakewood police are investigating the death of a 64-year-old man gunned down in front of his apartment late Monday night when he returned home from grocery shopping.
A Wheat Ridge man who shot and killed a 24-year-old man during a November home invasion will not be charged after prosecutors determined it was a justifiable homicide based on...
Law enforcement officers have suspended their search in southern Douglas County for 11-year-old Gannon Stauch, who went missing more than three weeks ago from his Colorado Springs home.