September 5, 2025 • 29 mins
Right now in true crime: Donna Adelson update, Emmanuel Haro update, Barry Morphew update.
This week’s episode is Denver based, in honor of Crimecon this year. We will discuss the unsolved homicide cases of Helen Beckham, Jenny Bado, Clarence Harris & Valerie Murphy and Eric Hope. Although these cases all happened in Denver they are unrelated to one another, but all equally important to share.
Sources for episode:
https://www.denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/720/documents/coldcases/70-438185.Beckam.pdf
https://www.housecreep.com/ee/6631-e-24th-ave-denver-co-80207-us
https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=708
https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=882
https://www.housecreep.com/ee/3395-jasmine-st-denver-co-80207-us
https://websleuths.com/threads/co-eric-hope-12-lakewood-23-oct-1981.87082/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2009/01/18/paperboy-tied-up-in-bed-and-stabbed/
https://www.denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/720/documents/coldcases/81-706855.HopeEric.pdf
https://kdvr.com/news/colorado-cold-cases/cold-case-who-murdered-this-12-year-old-paper-boy-in-1981/amp/
https://websleuths.com/threads/co-eric-hope-12-lakewood-23-oct-1981.87082/page-2
This week’s episode is Denver based, in honor of Crimecon this year. We will discuss the unsolved homicide cases of Helen Beckham, Jenny Bado, Clarence Harris & Valerie Murphy and Eric Hope. Although these cases all happened in Denver they are unrelated to one another, but all equally important to share.
Sources for episode:
https://www.denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/720/documents/coldcases/70-438185.Beckam.pdf
https://www.housecreep.com/ee/6631-e-24th-ave-denver-co-80207-us
https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=708
https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=882
https://www.housecreep.com/ee/3395-jasmine-st-denver-co-80207-us
https://websleuths.com/threads/co-eric-hope-12-lakewood-23-oct-1981.87082/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2009/01/18/paperboy-tied-up-in-bed-and-stabbed/
https://www.denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/720/documents/coldcases/81-706855.HopeEric.pdf
https://kdvr.com/news/colorado-cold-cases/cold-case-who-murdered-this-12-year-old-paper-boy-in-1981/amp/
https://websleuths.com/threads/co-eric-hope-12-lakewood-23-oct-1981.87082/page-2
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Warning.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This episode contains graphic crime scene detail as well as
talk of sexual assault. Please listen with discretion. Warning this
episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen with discretion.
Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk
right now in true crime, and then together we are
going to work on warming up some cold cases.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Primetime Crime.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's Kylie.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We are getting into a quick little brief right now
in true crime, just with a couple of updates, and
then we're going to get into this episode, which is
in honor of Crime Con being in Denver this year.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I did a little Denver.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Unsolved mashup a few different cases that need our attention.
So let's get into right now in true crime. So
as we speak right now, they are updating the jury
instructions for Donna Adelson. They are officially going to be
deliberating in a little while. Closings are happening today Thursday,
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and I don't know when we're going to have a verdict,
but I feel like it's going to be pretty quickly
after they start deliberating, because the writing is on the
wall and Donna's defenced and nothing at all to help her.
I was kind of surprised Donna didn't testify and Charlie
didn't testify because they transported Charlie for her trial, and
I was kind of surprised they didn't call him. Not
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that he would have done her any favors, but it
was a big thing that he was transported for her trial.
So we will see. We're likely going to have a
verdict sooner rather than later. The closings are probably going
to take a few hours from the prosecution, especially the
prosecution because they have a rock solid case and Georgia
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Kapelman is a queen, so it's going to be interesting
to see what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We'll try to keep you updated.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Stay tuned to socials for any updates regarding that. So
baby Emmanuel Harrow is still missing. They have yet to
find him or remains. It is presumed that he is
deceased and Jake and Rebecca, Emmanuel's parents, are set to
be a rain tomorrow, so I don't know what's going
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to come of this. Jake was helping, allegedly helping. I'm
using air quotes investigators with where his remains are, but
they have yet to be successful in finding him. So
this whole case really just boggles my mind because, like
I said last episode, this man should have never even
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been out of prison to begin with, given the fact
that he.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So severely abused his daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
She can't walk, talk, she has a lot of complex
medical issues due to the fact that he abused her,
and he did it while she was a young, young
child ten weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I want to say she was I might be wrong
on that, but she was young. She was young, young, young.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Anyone that does this to a child needs to be
locked away for the rest of their life my opinion.
But I do hope that investigators are able to find
him and build a case against these two horrific, horrific
humans allegedly in my opinion. Okay, last thing I want
to update you guys on is Barry more few If
you've been following the Suzanne Morphew of it all, Barry
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was arrested again for the murder suspicion of murder of
his wife. So he was in court on Tuesday and
the judge is not going to reduce his bail, which
is a good thing, but did end up modifying the
terms of his bond. So his bail is set at
three million dollars, and the defense of course requested that
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it be lower to five hundred thousand dollars because they
say that his past conduct should be considered when lowering
his bond amount. So, like I said, the judge did
not reduce the bail amount, but he did modify the terms.
So now a bail bond company could post bail on
his behalf for a non refundable fee, which they say
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is between ten and fifty percent of the total amount,
which that's a lot on three million dollars, but whatever.
And the judge also added some additional conditions. One is,
he must surrender his passport. He cannot leave Colorado for
any reason. He has to wear a GPS monitor. He
can't leave his home for any reason except for to
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go to court or go to a doctor or if
he has a medical emergency.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He can only use his name. He can't change his
name or go buy anything else.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He can only drive vehicles that are registered to him,
and he cannot possess or control any firearm.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So that is where things currently stand.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
If there are any updates in the Barry Morphew of
it all, I will be sure to keep you guys updated.
But with all of that being said, we are going
to go ahead and get into this week's episode. Alrighty guys,
we are diving into a brand new episode today. In
honor of Crime Con being in Denver this year, I
wanted to do a little unsolved Denver mashup episode, so
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that is exactly what I'm going to be bringing you
this week. I do want to preface and say I
am a little under the weather, so my voice might
be not ideal in some portions, but I'm doing my
best to try and batch record a little bit so
I can get ahead, so that way I can take
a couple of weeks off because your girl is tired.
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But there are a few unsolved Denver cases that I
wanted to bring you today. They do not have any
relation to one another other than they all took place
in Denver. So I'm going to go in order, but
I'm going to be telling you the unsolved homicides of
five different people. Helen Beckham, Jenny Bato, Clarence Harris and
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Valerie Murphy and Eric Hope. These are all cases that
very much need our attention. They are all older cases,
they are all cold cases. And it's so important to
highlight these, so we're going to go ahead and get
into it. First case up is the story of a
woman named Helen Beckham. Her murder took place in October
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of nineteen seventy, making her case fifty five years old,
but just as important as it was back when it
happened in nineteen seventy. With a case like this that
is so old, we know that time is running out
to solve it because the people that likely know something
about it are very elderly at this point in time,
and time is running out to find out who did
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this to Helen.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Helen Beckham was born on May twenty ninth.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Of nineteen twenty seven, which would make her ninety eight
years old if she was still living today.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
She was only forty three years.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Old when her life was taken from her, and I
think that that really puts it into perspective how much
of her life was stolen from her. So on the
night of October sixth of nineteen seventy, a nine to
one one A call came in, and the nine one
one call came in from six sixty three to one
East twenty fourth Aba, New in Denver. The reason for
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the nim on one call was a medical emergency. When
law enforcement arrived, they found Helen a shot multiple times
in her home. There isn't much publicly known or reported
about Helen's case, and there wasn't a lot of info
put out there. We don't know if this was a
robbery gone wrong or somebody that personally targeted Helen. It
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remains unclear what the motive behind this one was, but
it is believed that Helen was confronted at or near
her home and was shot. It is believed that she
retreated into her home where she was then found by
law enforcement. Now, again with not much being known about this,
it's really unclear whether or not Helen knew her attacker.
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If this was somebody that approached her while she was
outside of her home and attacked her and then she
went inside.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's also unclear who made the nimal one call.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Did the nice one one call come from Helen herself
saying that she had been injured and there was a
medical emergency. Again, we really don't know the answers to
these questions. Or was it a situation where Helen was
inside of her home, somebody came to her front door
and she answered, and then she was attacked. There's a
lot here that we do not know about, but still
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it's important to share this case and hopefully somebody out
there knows something or has a secret that they've been
keeping for somebody for many, many, many years. While the
chances are growing less and less by the day that
Helen's case will be solved, it's still important to remember
her and share her story. I was only able to
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find one picture of Helen that I'm going to be
sharing on my social media, so please be sure to
follow me over there on Instagram at Primetime Crime pod
and on Facebook at Primetime Crime. Remember that is crime
with a K. The next case I'm going to tell
you about today is that of fifty three year old
Jenny Botto. Jenny was born on March sixteenth of nineteen
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forty one and lost her life on April thirtieth of
nineteen ninety four. So there are some conflicting reports online.
There are some people that say that Jenny was stabbed
in her kitchen at her home, but from what I
have seen, she was stabbed in the University of Denver
Law School, which at the time in nineteen ninety four
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was located at seven oh five zero Mount View Boulevard
in Denver. The building still stands today and is now
the Denver Center for African Art. So from the reports
that I've seen, Jenny worked at the law school and
she had arrived at work around six a m. That morning,
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and she was set to cook breakfast in the cafeteria
for two hundred plus students, So we can pretty much
assume that she worked there.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
This was her job and she was a cook for
the school.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But Jenny was found stabbed in the kitchen while she
was set to be preparing this food for the students.
Investigators do believe that robbery was a motive because there
were two cast registered drawers that were found lying next
to Jenny. They believe that the suspect fled the scene
on foot, so this likely could have been a robbery
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gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But again, we have so many questions.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Could it have been a disgruntled student that had a
vendetta against the school?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Was it random? Was somebody watching Jenny go into the
school because.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It was quite early and they thought that she was
an easy target. But there is little else known about
Jenny's murder. But I do think it's safe to say
that Somebody that would go into a place like this,
a school and brutally stab somebody who was just trying
to do their job is likely capable of hurting others
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and should not be free and out and walking amongst us.
So I have a lot of questions about this one.
Did anyone else in the area see anything? Were they
able to get any DNA evidence from the cash registered
drawers that were left near Jenny's body? Was their DNA
left behind? Where was the murder weapon left behind? Did
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the person take the murder weapon from the kitchen or
did they come prepared? So so many questions. But it
does appear that this was a robbery gone wrong. But
getting Jenny's face and name out there is so important
because like all these other cases, there is somebody walking
around out there that knows what happened to Jenny, And
there might even be more than one person that knows
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what happened to Jenny. Was there somebody on lookout sitting
in a car waiting for the perpetrator to go in
and do their business and come out and then be
a getaway driver.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So so many questions. So the next.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Story I'm going to tell you about is a double
homicide that occurred in Denver. Again, there is very little
known about this case, and it happened in nineteen eighty one,
so we're looking at forty four years since this crime occurred.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This was a double homicide.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Clarence Harris was a fifty five year old man who
lived at three three nine five Jasmine Street in Denver.
He had a roommate named Valerie Murphy, who was only
twenty five years old. I am not sure of their relationship.
If they just shared a home or if they had
more of a personal relationship, I am unsure.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Little is known about Valerie.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Clarence did operate a janitorial business in the Denver metro
area prior to his death. On the afternoon of July
ninth of nineteen eighty one, the Denver Police responded to
a welfare check at Clarence's home. Upon making entry into
the home, they discovered both Clarence and Valerie had been
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shot and were both deceased inside.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Very little is known about their homicide.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
The house is still standing to this day, and I
don't know how it was in nineteen eighty one, but
today it's completely surrounded by a fence. I don't know
if this is an unsafe area of town. It is
the only house in that area that seems to be
surrounded by this fence. And going back as early as
twenty twelve, this house was surrounded by a fence, whether
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it be chain link now it's a wooden fence, which
I think is interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't know the circumstances of.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why that's the case, but it is completely encapsulated by
this fence. There is up to a two thousand dollars
reward for information leading to an arrest for the person
or persons responsible for Clarence and Valerie's deaths. And again,
we don't know much about our victims. We know that
Clarence had this channelitorial business, did he have any enemies? Valerie,
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we don't really know anything about her, so we don't
know the circumstances of why she was living there with Clarence,
if she had family or friends in the area, did
she have anybody that might want to harm her. It
doesn't really make any sense to me that somebody would
go into a home with two people and just brutally
murder them, shoot them, and then be on their way.
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But if there's one thing that the true crime world
has taught me is that a lot of the times
these crimes do not have a true motive behind them.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's just bad people doing bad things and.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
They see a mode of getting the job done and
they target those people. It's unfortunate, it's sad, but it happens,
unfortunately quite a bit in some.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Of these cases that I cover.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So while there isn't a lot known about Clarence and Valerie,
I can assure you that they did not deserve this
ending to their life. Whoever did this came into their
home and brutally attacked them and left them there to die.
Nobody ever deserves that type of ending to their life.
It's just sick and not right, and something like this
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should never happen, and it also shouldn't go this long
without having any inklingd of information as to who possibly
could have done it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
No suspects have been named.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Again, I am not sure if there is any evidence
DNA related weapon related that they were able to get.
There is nothing that is publicly available on where this
case stands today other than it is still unsolved. All right,
we are moving on to the last case I'm going
to tell you about today, and this one is really
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tragic and sad. I do want to trigger warning it
because it involves the death of a child. So I'm
going to tell you about the homicide of a twelve
year old boy named Eric Hope. He was, like I said,
only twelve years old when his life was taken in
such a violent way. Eric lived at twelve sixty nine
Fairfax Street in Denver with his mom. His parents were divorced.
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The house has since been torn down in a new
built home sits now on that property, But back in
October of nineteen eighty one, a small home sat on
this property. It was a two bedroom, one bath property
that was set back from the street and hidden by trees.
I will post a picture of the house on my
social media as I was able to find a picture
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of the house as it stood in nineteen eighty one
when Eric lived there. So Eric was a seventh grader
and he had a paper route and very much enjoyed
playing video games. Eric, like I said, lived at this
house with his mom, who was divorced from Eric's dad.
On October twenty third of nineteen eighty one. This was
a Friday night. Eric's mom wasn't home that night. Now
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there are conflicting reports about where she was. Some say
that she was working. She did some work with pottery
kind of on the outside, making it, decorating it, selling it,
and then I also saw other state that she was
on a date night. But for whatever reason, Eric was
home alone, which back in nineteen eighty one, being left
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alone at twelve years old wasn't really all that uncommon.
It was something that you probably saw quite often because
it was generally safe back then. When Eric's mom came
home that night, she didn't check on.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Eric as his door was closed to his room, so she.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Went ahead and went to bed, and then the next
morning realized that something was wrong when Eric didn't emerge
from his room.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I don't know exactly the circumstances that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Followed, but Eric was found stabbed multiple times and found
deceased in his bedroom. It is speculated that Eric opened
the door to his attacker, as there was no sign
of forced entry. Information again is limited on this one,
but it does appear that the attack on Eric was
sexual in nature, with a lot of people speculating that
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a local sex offender was responsible. There were apparently many
that lived in this area around that time. In nineteen
eighty one, and since Eric was a paper boy, I'm
sure many locally knew him because he delivered their papers
and knew where he lived. I found a message board
post about Eric's story, and a couple of people that
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knew him and grew up with him chimed in and
there's two that I'm going to read for you guys.
This one I'm going to read now is particularly interesting
to me, so I want to read it. It has
quite a bit of insight, and again it's somebody that
knew Eric and grew up with him. This is from
the user Denver Pathfinder, and I'm going to link the
thread below because it's really the only information I was
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able to find in detail about Eric's death. I'm going
to read it now. I grew up with Eric from
fourth grade until his death. He was one of my
good friends, and I often spent time at his house
to hang out and play. He was kind hearted, creative, bright,
and while maybe a bit shy at times, was very
engaging to be around. We were also paper boys together
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for the Denver Post, working out of the same papers
stef Right near Colfax. I do remember his mother and
her pottery, but I don't believe that was the reason
that she was out that night. I recall that she
was out on a date. Speculation from the police and
news at the time was that there was no sign
of forced entry or a struggle, and it appeared that
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Eric had opened the door to his attacker, which may
have meant that he knew them, or just as possible,
he simply opened a knock at the door because he
was a sweet, trusting kid.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He was apparently not.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Just tied up, but sexually assaulted and then stabbed multiple times.
I still have vivid memories of the news showing the
police carrying bloody sheets out of his house.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
His death was.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Devastating for all of us who knew him as a
gentle soul. It rocked our neighborhood. In the community of
kids who knew him from elementary school, it was our
first encounter with the evil that people are capable of,
and many of us face paternal restrictions on playing outside
after dark As a result. Certainly, the demand for sitters
went up, even though many of us were teenes by
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this time. My parents wouldn't leave me and my sister
home alone for months, as the case remain unsolved and
there was a ton of fear in the community. Eric's
funeral still sticks in my mind. Every few years, his
murder reservices for me and I run searches to see
the status of the case. I would like to see
this crime solved. If there is an ounce of DNA
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from the crime, I wish the police would run it
through a reverse ancestry process to see if they can
find the killer.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Eric deserves justice and so do his parents.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Which preach that I don't know if there is DNA
left behind in Eric's case, but if there is any
amount of DNA, which if there was a sexual assault,
allegedly there was a sexual assault, there should be DNA
evidence and I would hope and pray that they do
routinely run that through databases because this type of attack,
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the attack against a child, is specially when it's a
sexual in type of attack. This person obviously has problems
and this wasn't a one time type of situation where
they just decided to randomly attack Eric and they haven't
offended sense. That just does not make any sense to me.
There is one more entry that I want to read.
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This is by the user name Hope Truth, and I'm
going to read that one now. I come back to
this one every now and then. In fifth grade, Eric
and I were very good friends. We both went to
park Hill Elementary. For sixth grade, I transferred to private
school and we lost touch. I remember reading about his
death in the newspaper and being horribly disturbed. Although I
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remember feeling as though we were besties for that period
of time, I think it was a relatively short period
of time, like maybe just fifth grade or fourth grade
and fifth grade. I don't recall ever having been to
his house. I mainly remember riding bikes and playing superheroes
and such things. I'm not sure he was ever at
my house either, though, so maybe I don't recall where
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he lived on the south side of Colefax and where
I lived in park Hill felt like millions of miles
apart in those days. Colefax for me, was certainly a
psychological barrier that you really didn't cross. It was pretty
sketchy in those days, and I think we just didn't
go there. I remember him as being a very fun,
dynamic kid with a lot of personality. I think the
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distance between our houses is probably why we didn't maintain
a friendship. After I transferred to a different school, I
am also not sure that I was aware of it
at the time, but aside from just the horrifying facts
of his death, I empathized with his situation greatly, which
made it all that more disturbing to me. I too,
lived with a single mother and spent many nights at
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home as a latchkey kid. I think I realized very
much of the time of his death how similar we were,
and how it felt easily something like that could have
happened to me. Those were very different times, and we
had few restrictions on our activities, even at the very
young age, and while in some sense we were very
much more savvy than children of the same age these days,
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we were also very innocent.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
So he still is in my thoughts after all of
these years.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Occasionally I find it horribly disturbing that there was so
little apparent investigation or leads, or any outcome in terms
of finding out what happened to him and bringing justice
to his memory and his family. I wish someone would
really dig in, as some other posters here have indicated,
to release more information, to examine the investigation at the time,
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to discover why the case went cold so quickly. It
doesn't appear to be just a random act of violence
that happened on the street from some deranged stranger.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I totally agree. The crime by.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Nature is so intimate, personal passionate angry that it seems
like it had to be somebody that could be traced
to it somehow. I can't help but feel that the
investigation was not given its due for whatever reasons.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I don't think his family had much money.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Perhaps there were other factors that made the police not
give it much do but it feels lazy and throw away,
which is very sad to me because though we weren't
close at the time, we had been very good friends,
and I don't recall ever hearing anything about it again
other than the one article in the newspaper. It was
not a big story and did not have much attention.
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But I don't know if I would have known that
or not being so young, But it seems like if
that happened today with similar circumstances, it would be a
huge story. I doubt there will ever be resolution, but
it heartens me to see that other people, even people
who didn't have a connection to him, still pay attention
to this case and think about it. I hope that
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somebody who has the knowledge and wherewithal to investigate cold
cases such as this, will pick this one up one
day and at least find information to, if not solve
the case and bring justice to my long ago friend
Eric Cope. Just absolutely completely breaks my heart. This person
is a thousand percent right. I don't know why there
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isn't much information publicly on Eric's death, why there wasn't
more of an uproar back in nineteen eighty one when
it happened. My first thought when I heard about it,
because he was a paper boy, I immediately flashed back
to the case of Johnny Gosh, who was also a
paper boy and was kidnapped, allegedly kidnapped while he was
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doing his paper route.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I know that there is likely.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No connection between the two cases, as Johnny's case happened
in Des Moines, Iowa in nineteen eighty two, but there
is a very interesting coincidence there that they were both
paper boys, which automatically I think makes them a little
more susceptible to neighborhood predators, which, according to a lot
of people on this message board, there was a lot
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of predators that lived in that area back in that
day and probably still live in that area. To this day,
I would really like to know more about what law
enforcement has, if investigators have anything more that they just
are keeping close to protect the integrity of the investigation.
But there really isn't much more known about Eric's death
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other than he was stabbed, tied up, and potentially sexually assaulted.
But if that's the case, they have to have DNA evidence,
and I would hope that it was well preserved and
that they are routinely running that evidence. Again, was the
murder weapon found, Were the ties that he was tied
up with from inside of the home or did that
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come from outside of the home. All of these things
are questions that we as a community have and have
not been answered. I did see somewhere that they had
asked his mom to go back through the house to
see if anything looked like it was out of place,
and I didn't see a report as if anything was
out of place. But again, it's one of those type
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of situations where we really don't know what exact evidence
they do have, if any, and they haven't released anything
to the public. So the knowledge on this case is
just as little as all of the others. But I
still wanted to take some time to cover these cases
because there is so little information about them that a
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lot of people don't really want to.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Talk about them.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And that is why I wanted to very much take
some time and shed some light on these cases. These
five people tragically lost their lives, all at different times,
but all around the Denver area, and the information on
them is all very limited.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
There is not a lot out there.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But I do believe that there is somebody out there
that knows something on all of these cases, and that
is who we are really appealing to when I do
these type of cases that really don't have much information.
We're just waiting for the people that are responsible or
know something to come forward. If you do have any
information on any of these cases, you were asked to
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contact the Denver Police Department's Cold Case Unit at seven
two oh nine three two thousand. You can contact this
number at twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
or you can call the Crime Stoppers tip line at
seven two oh nine one three stop which is seven
eight six seven again that is seven two oh nine
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one three seven eight sixty seven. Callers may remain anonymous,
and there is an award for.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
All of these cases up to two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Some might have more of an award, but it is
so important that we get these cases out there. I'm
going to be posting a picture of all the victims.
I'm also going to post a picture of all of
the locations where the victims were found as well. They
again are all around Denver, and the only one that
is no longer standing is the home that Eric lost
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his life in, but I do have a photo of
that home.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
There is a.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Build now on the property as of I want to
say twenty twenty three, maybe a little earlier, but back
in nineteen eighty one, like I said, it was a small,
little two bedroom home that's sat on that property. So
I'm going to be sharing all of that on social media.
Thank you guys so much for tuning in to this
Denver Unsolved mash up. These cases are so important to share,
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so important to get the word out. And hopefully one
of these days I'll be able to come on and
tell you guys that one or all of these cases
have had breaking news and we have a little bit
of resolution in these stories. But I appreciate you, guys.
I will see you next week for a brand new
Unsolved cold case and I hope you have a great
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weekend ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Bye
Warning.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This episode contains graphic crime scene detail as well as
talk of sexual assault. Please listen with discretion. Warning this
episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen with discretion.
Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk
right now in true crime, and then together we are
going to work on warming up some cold cases.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Primetime Crime.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's Kylie.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We are getting into a quick little brief right now
in true crime, just with a couple of updates, and
then we're going to get into this episode, which is
in honor of Crime Con being in Denver this year.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I did a little Denver.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Unsolved mashup a few different cases that need our attention.
So let's get into right now in true crime. So
as we speak right now, they are updating the jury
instructions for Donna Adelson. They are officially going to be
deliberating in a little while. Closings are happening today Thursday,
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and I don't know when we're going to have a verdict,
but I feel like it's going to be pretty quickly
after they start deliberating, because the writing is on the
wall and Donna's defenced and nothing at all to help her.
I was kind of surprised Donna didn't testify and Charlie
didn't testify because they transported Charlie for her trial, and
I was kind of surprised they didn't call him. Not
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that he would have done her any favors, but it
was a big thing that he was transported for her trial.
So we will see. We're likely going to have a
verdict sooner rather than later. The closings are probably going
to take a few hours from the prosecution, especially the
prosecution because they have a rock solid case and Georgia
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Kapelman is a queen, so it's going to be interesting
to see what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We'll try to keep you updated.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Stay tuned to socials for any updates regarding that. So
baby Emmanuel Harrow is still missing. They have yet to
find him or remains. It is presumed that he is
deceased and Jake and Rebecca, Emmanuel's parents, are set to
be a rain tomorrow, so I don't know what's going
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to come of this. Jake was helping, allegedly helping. I'm
using air quotes investigators with where his remains are, but
they have yet to be successful in finding him. So
this whole case really just boggles my mind because, like
I said last episode, this man should have never even
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been out of prison to begin with, given the fact
that he.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So severely abused his daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
She can't walk, talk, she has a lot of complex
medical issues due to the fact that he abused her,
and he did it while she was a young, young
child ten weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I want to say she was I might be wrong
on that, but she was young. She was young, young, young.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Anyone that does this to a child needs to be
locked away for the rest of their life my opinion.
But I do hope that investigators are able to find
him and build a case against these two horrific, horrific
humans allegedly in my opinion. Okay, last thing I want
to update you guys on is Barry more few If
you've been following the Suzanne Morphew of it all, Barry
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was arrested again for the murder suspicion of murder of
his wife. So he was in court on Tuesday and
the judge is not going to reduce his bail, which
is a good thing, but did end up modifying the
terms of his bond. So his bail is set at
three million dollars, and the defense of course requested that
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it be lower to five hundred thousand dollars because they
say that his past conduct should be considered when lowering
his bond amount. So, like I said, the judge did
not reduce the bail amount, but he did modify the terms.
So now a bail bond company could post bail on
his behalf for a non refundable fee, which they say
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is between ten and fifty percent of the total amount,
which that's a lot on three million dollars, but whatever.
And the judge also added some additional conditions. One is,
he must surrender his passport. He cannot leave Colorado for
any reason. He has to wear a GPS monitor. He
can't leave his home for any reason except for to
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go to court or go to a doctor or if
he has a medical emergency.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He can only use his name. He can't change his
name or go buy anything else.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He can only drive vehicles that are registered to him,
and he cannot possess or control any firearm.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So that is where things currently stand.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
If there are any updates in the Barry Morphew of
it all, I will be sure to keep you guys updated.
But with all of that being said, we are going
to go ahead and get into this week's episode. Alrighty guys,
we are diving into a brand new episode today. In
honor of Crime Con being in Denver this year, I
wanted to do a little unsolved Denver mashup episode, so
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that is exactly what I'm going to be bringing you
this week. I do want to preface and say I
am a little under the weather, so my voice might
be not ideal in some portions, but I'm doing my
best to try and batch record a little bit so
I can get ahead, so that way I can take
a couple of weeks off because your girl is tired.
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But there are a few unsolved Denver cases that I
wanted to bring you today. They do not have any
relation to one another other than they all took place
in Denver. So I'm going to go in order, but
I'm going to be telling you the unsolved homicides of
five different people. Helen Beckham, Jenny Bato, Clarence Harris and
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Valerie Murphy and Eric Hope. These are all cases that
very much need our attention. They are all older cases,
they are all cold cases. And it's so important to
highlight these, so we're going to go ahead and get
into it. First case up is the story of a
woman named Helen Beckham. Her murder took place in October
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of nineteen seventy, making her case fifty five years old,
but just as important as it was back when it
happened in nineteen seventy. With a case like this that
is so old, we know that time is running out
to solve it because the people that likely know something
about it are very elderly at this point in time,
and time is running out to find out who did
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this to Helen.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Helen Beckham was born on May twenty ninth.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Of nineteen twenty seven, which would make her ninety eight
years old if she was still living today.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
She was only forty three years.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Old when her life was taken from her, and I
think that that really puts it into perspective how much
of her life was stolen from her. So on the
night of October sixth of nineteen seventy, a nine to
one one A call came in, and the nine one
one call came in from six sixty three to one
East twenty fourth Aba, New in Denver. The reason for
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the nim on one call was a medical emergency. When
law enforcement arrived, they found Helen a shot multiple times
in her home. There isn't much publicly known or reported
about Helen's case, and there wasn't a lot of info
put out there. We don't know if this was a
robbery gone wrong or somebody that personally targeted Helen. It
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remains unclear what the motive behind this one was, but
it is believed that Helen was confronted at or near
her home and was shot. It is believed that she
retreated into her home where she was then found by
law enforcement. Now, again with not much being known about this,
it's really unclear whether or not Helen knew her attacker.
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If this was somebody that approached her while she was
outside of her home and attacked her and then she
went inside.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's also unclear who made the nimal one call.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Did the nice one one call come from Helen herself
saying that she had been injured and there was a
medical emergency. Again, we really don't know the answers to
these questions. Or was it a situation where Helen was
inside of her home, somebody came to her front door
and she answered, and then she was attacked. There's a
lot here that we do not know about, but still
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it's important to share this case and hopefully somebody out
there knows something or has a secret that they've been
keeping for somebody for many, many, many years. While the
chances are growing less and less by the day that
Helen's case will be solved, it's still important to remember
her and share her story. I was only able to
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find one picture of Helen that I'm going to be
sharing on my social media, so please be sure to
follow me over there on Instagram at Primetime Crime pod
and on Facebook at Primetime Crime. Remember that is crime
with a K. The next case I'm going to tell
you about today is that of fifty three year old
Jenny Botto. Jenny was born on March sixteenth of nineteen
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forty one and lost her life on April thirtieth of
nineteen ninety four. So there are some conflicting reports online.
There are some people that say that Jenny was stabbed
in her kitchen at her home, but from what I
have seen, she was stabbed in the University of Denver
Law School, which at the time in nineteen ninety four
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was located at seven oh five zero Mount View Boulevard
in Denver. The building still stands today and is now
the Denver Center for African Art. So from the reports
that I've seen, Jenny worked at the law school and
she had arrived at work around six a m. That morning,
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and she was set to cook breakfast in the cafeteria
for two hundred plus students, So we can pretty much
assume that she worked there.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
This was her job and she was a cook for
the school.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But Jenny was found stabbed in the kitchen while she
was set to be preparing this food for the students.
Investigators do believe that robbery was a motive because there
were two cast registered drawers that were found lying next
to Jenny. They believe that the suspect fled the scene
on foot, so this likely could have been a robbery
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gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But again, we have so many questions.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Could it have been a disgruntled student that had a
vendetta against the school?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Was it random? Was somebody watching Jenny go into the
school because.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It was quite early and they thought that she was
an easy target. But there is little else known about
Jenny's murder. But I do think it's safe to say
that Somebody that would go into a place like this,
a school and brutally stab somebody who was just trying
to do their job is likely capable of hurting others
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and should not be free and out and walking amongst us.
So I have a lot of questions about this one.
Did anyone else in the area see anything? Were they
able to get any DNA evidence from the cash registered
drawers that were left near Jenny's body? Was their DNA
left behind? Where was the murder weapon left behind? Did
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the person take the murder weapon from the kitchen or
did they come prepared? So so many questions. But it
does appear that this was a robbery gone wrong. But
getting Jenny's face and name out there is so important
because like all these other cases, there is somebody walking
around out there that knows what happened to Jenny, And
there might even be more than one person that knows
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what happened to Jenny. Was there somebody on lookout sitting
in a car waiting for the perpetrator to go in
and do their business and come out and then be
a getaway driver.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So so many questions. So the next.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Story I'm going to tell you about is a double
homicide that occurred in Denver. Again, there is very little
known about this case, and it happened in nineteen eighty one,
so we're looking at forty four years since this crime occurred.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This was a double homicide.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Clarence Harris was a fifty five year old man who
lived at three three nine five Jasmine Street in Denver.
He had a roommate named Valerie Murphy, who was only
twenty five years old. I am not sure of their relationship.
If they just shared a home or if they had
more of a personal relationship, I am unsure.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Little is known about Valerie.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Clarence did operate a janitorial business in the Denver metro
area prior to his death. On the afternoon of July
ninth of nineteen eighty one, the Denver Police responded to
a welfare check at Clarence's home. Upon making entry into
the home, they discovered both Clarence and Valerie had been
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shot and were both deceased inside.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Very little is known about their homicide.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
The house is still standing to this day, and I
don't know how it was in nineteen eighty one, but
today it's completely surrounded by a fence. I don't know
if this is an unsafe area of town. It is
the only house in that area that seems to be
surrounded by this fence. And going back as early as
twenty twelve, this house was surrounded by a fence, whether
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it be chain link now it's a wooden fence, which
I think is interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't know the circumstances of.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why that's the case, but it is completely encapsulated by
this fence. There is up to a two thousand dollars
reward for information leading to an arrest for the person
or persons responsible for Clarence and Valerie's deaths. And again,
we don't know much about our victims. We know that
Clarence had this channelitorial business, did he have any enemies? Valerie,
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we don't really know anything about her, so we don't
know the circumstances of why she was living there with Clarence,
if she had family or friends in the area, did
she have anybody that might want to harm her. It
doesn't really make any sense to me that somebody would
go into a home with two people and just brutally
murder them, shoot them, and then be on their way.
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But if there's one thing that the true crime world
has taught me is that a lot of the times
these crimes do not have a true motive behind them.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's just bad people doing bad things and.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
They see a mode of getting the job done and
they target those people. It's unfortunate, it's sad, but it happens,
unfortunately quite a bit in some.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Of these cases that I cover.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So while there isn't a lot known about Clarence and Valerie,
I can assure you that they did not deserve this
ending to their life. Whoever did this came into their
home and brutally attacked them and left them there to die.
Nobody ever deserves that type of ending to their life.
It's just sick and not right, and something like this
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should never happen, and it also shouldn't go this long
without having any inklingd of information as to who possibly
could have done it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
No suspects have been named.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Again, I am not sure if there is any evidence
DNA related weapon related that they were able to get.
There is nothing that is publicly available on where this
case stands today other than it is still unsolved. All right,
we are moving on to the last case I'm going
to tell you about today, and this one is really
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tragic and sad. I do want to trigger warning it
because it involves the death of a child. So I'm
going to tell you about the homicide of a twelve
year old boy named Eric Hope. He was, like I said,
only twelve years old when his life was taken in
such a violent way. Eric lived at twelve sixty nine
Fairfax Street in Denver with his mom. His parents were divorced.
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The house has since been torn down in a new
built home sits now on that property, But back in
October of nineteen eighty one, a small home sat on
this property. It was a two bedroom, one bath property
that was set back from the street and hidden by trees.
I will post a picture of the house on my
social media as I was able to find a picture
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of the house as it stood in nineteen eighty one
when Eric lived there. So Eric was a seventh grader
and he had a paper route and very much enjoyed
playing video games. Eric, like I said, lived at this
house with his mom, who was divorced from Eric's dad.
On October twenty third of nineteen eighty one. This was
a Friday night. Eric's mom wasn't home that night. Now
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there are conflicting reports about where she was. Some say
that she was working. She did some work with pottery
kind of on the outside, making it, decorating it, selling it,
and then I also saw other state that she was
on a date night. But for whatever reason, Eric was
home alone, which back in nineteen eighty one, being left
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alone at twelve years old wasn't really all that uncommon.
It was something that you probably saw quite often because
it was generally safe back then. When Eric's mom came
home that night, she didn't check on.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Eric as his door was closed to his room, so she.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Went ahead and went to bed, and then the next
morning realized that something was wrong when Eric didn't emerge
from his room.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I don't know exactly the circumstances that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Followed, but Eric was found stabbed multiple times and found
deceased in his bedroom. It is speculated that Eric opened
the door to his attacker, as there was no sign
of forced entry. Information again is limited on this one,
but it does appear that the attack on Eric was
sexual in nature, with a lot of people speculating that
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a local sex offender was responsible. There were apparently many
that lived in this area around that time. In nineteen
eighty one, and since Eric was a paper boy, I'm
sure many locally knew him because he delivered their papers
and knew where he lived. I found a message board
post about Eric's story, and a couple of people that
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knew him and grew up with him chimed in and
there's two that I'm going to read for you guys.
This one I'm going to read now is particularly interesting
to me, so I want to read it. It has
quite a bit of insight, and again it's somebody that
knew Eric and grew up with him. This is from
the user Denver Pathfinder, and I'm going to link the
thread below because it's really the only information I was
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able to find in detail about Eric's death. I'm going
to read it now. I grew up with Eric from
fourth grade until his death. He was one of my
good friends, and I often spent time at his house
to hang out and play. He was kind hearted, creative, bright,
and while maybe a bit shy at times, was very
engaging to be around. We were also paper boys together
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for the Denver Post, working out of the same papers
stef Right near Colfax. I do remember his mother and
her pottery, but I don't believe that was the reason
that she was out that night. I recall that she
was out on a date. Speculation from the police and
news at the time was that there was no sign
of forced entry or a struggle, and it appeared that
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Eric had opened the door to his attacker, which may
have meant that he knew them, or just as possible,
he simply opened a knock at the door because he
was a sweet, trusting kid.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He was apparently not.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Just tied up, but sexually assaulted and then stabbed multiple times.
I still have vivid memories of the news showing the
police carrying bloody sheets out of his house.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
His death was.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Devastating for all of us who knew him as a
gentle soul. It rocked our neighborhood. In the community of
kids who knew him from elementary school, it was our
first encounter with the evil that people are capable of,
and many of us face paternal restrictions on playing outside
after dark As a result. Certainly, the demand for sitters
went up, even though many of us were teenes by
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this time. My parents wouldn't leave me and my sister
home alone for months, as the case remain unsolved and
there was a ton of fear in the community. Eric's
funeral still sticks in my mind. Every few years, his
murder reservices for me and I run searches to see
the status of the case. I would like to see
this crime solved. If there is an ounce of DNA
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from the crime, I wish the police would run it
through a reverse ancestry process to see if they can
find the killer.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Eric deserves justice and so do his parents.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Which preach that I don't know if there is DNA
left behind in Eric's case, but if there is any
amount of DNA, which if there was a sexual assault,
allegedly there was a sexual assault, there should be DNA
evidence and I would hope and pray that they do
routinely run that through databases because this type of attack,
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the attack against a child, is specially when it's a
sexual in type of attack. This person obviously has problems
and this wasn't a one time type of situation where
they just decided to randomly attack Eric and they haven't
offended sense. That just does not make any sense to me.
There is one more entry that I want to read.
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This is by the user name Hope Truth, and I'm
going to read that one now. I come back to
this one every now and then. In fifth grade, Eric
and I were very good friends. We both went to
park Hill Elementary. For sixth grade, I transferred to private
school and we lost touch. I remember reading about his
death in the newspaper and being horribly disturbed. Although I
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remember feeling as though we were besties for that period
of time, I think it was a relatively short period
of time, like maybe just fifth grade or fourth grade
and fifth grade. I don't recall ever having been to
his house. I mainly remember riding bikes and playing superheroes
and such things. I'm not sure he was ever at
my house either, though, so maybe I don't recall where
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he lived on the south side of Colefax and where
I lived in park Hill felt like millions of miles
apart in those days. Colefax for me, was certainly a
psychological barrier that you really didn't cross. It was pretty
sketchy in those days, and I think we just didn't
go there. I remember him as being a very fun,
dynamic kid with a lot of personality. I think the
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distance between our houses is probably why we didn't maintain
a friendship. After I transferred to a different school, I
am also not sure that I was aware of it
at the time, but aside from just the horrifying facts
of his death, I empathized with his situation greatly, which
made it all that more disturbing to me. I too,
lived with a single mother and spent many nights at
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home as a latchkey kid. I think I realized very
much of the time of his death how similar we were,
and how it felt easily something like that could have
happened to me. Those were very different times, and we
had few restrictions on our activities, even at the very
young age, and while in some sense we were very
much more savvy than children of the same age these days,
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we were also very innocent.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
So he still is in my thoughts after all of
these years.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Occasionally I find it horribly disturbing that there was so
little apparent investigation or leads, or any outcome in terms
of finding out what happened to him and bringing justice
to his memory and his family. I wish someone would
really dig in, as some other posters here have indicated,
to release more information, to examine the investigation at the time,
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to discover why the case went cold so quickly. It
doesn't appear to be just a random act of violence
that happened on the street from some deranged stranger.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I totally agree. The crime by.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Nature is so intimate, personal passionate angry that it seems
like it had to be somebody that could be traced
to it somehow. I can't help but feel that the
investigation was not given its due for whatever reasons.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I don't think his family had much money.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Perhaps there were other factors that made the police not
give it much do but it feels lazy and throw away,
which is very sad to me because though we weren't
close at the time, we had been very good friends,
and I don't recall ever hearing anything about it again
other than the one article in the newspaper. It was
not a big story and did not have much attention.
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But I don't know if I would have known that
or not being so young, But it seems like if
that happened today with similar circumstances, it would be a
huge story. I doubt there will ever be resolution, but
it heartens me to see that other people, even people
who didn't have a connection to him, still pay attention
to this case and think about it. I hope that
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somebody who has the knowledge and wherewithal to investigate cold
cases such as this, will pick this one up one
day and at least find information to, if not solve
the case and bring justice to my long ago friend
Eric Cope. Just absolutely completely breaks my heart. This person
is a thousand percent right. I don't know why there
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isn't much information publicly on Eric's death, why there wasn't
more of an uproar back in nineteen eighty one when
it happened. My first thought when I heard about it,
because he was a paper boy, I immediately flashed back
to the case of Johnny Gosh, who was also a
paper boy and was kidnapped, allegedly kidnapped while he was
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doing his paper route.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I know that there is likely.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No connection between the two cases, as Johnny's case happened
in Des Moines, Iowa in nineteen eighty two, but there
is a very interesting coincidence there that they were both
paper boys, which automatically I think makes them a little
more susceptible to neighborhood predators, which, according to a lot
of people on this message board, there was a lot
(25:52):
of predators that lived in that area back in that
day and probably still live in that area. To this day,
I would really like to know more about what law
enforcement has, if investigators have anything more that they just
are keeping close to protect the integrity of the investigation.
But there really isn't much more known about Eric's death
(26:12):
other than he was stabbed, tied up, and potentially sexually assaulted.
But if that's the case, they have to have DNA evidence,
and I would hope that it was well preserved and
that they are routinely running that evidence. Again, was the
murder weapon found, Were the ties that he was tied
up with from inside of the home or did that
(26:34):
come from outside of the home. All of these things
are questions that we as a community have and have
not been answered. I did see somewhere that they had
asked his mom to go back through the house to
see if anything looked like it was out of place,
and I didn't see a report as if anything was
out of place. But again, it's one of those type
(26:56):
of situations where we really don't know what exact evidence
they do have, if any, and they haven't released anything
to the public. So the knowledge on this case is
just as little as all of the others. But I
still wanted to take some time to cover these cases
because there is so little information about them that a
(27:19):
lot of people don't really want to.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Talk about them.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And that is why I wanted to very much take
some time and shed some light on these cases. These
five people tragically lost their lives, all at different times,
but all around the Denver area, and the information on
them is all very limited.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
There is not a lot out there.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But I do believe that there is somebody out there
that knows something on all of these cases, and that
is who we are really appealing to when I do
these type of cases that really don't have much information.
We're just waiting for the people that are responsible or
know something to come forward. If you do have any
information on any of these cases, you were asked to
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contact the Denver Police Department's Cold Case Unit at seven
two oh nine three two thousand. You can contact this
number at twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
or you can call the Crime Stoppers tip line at
seven two oh nine one three stop which is seven
eight six seven again that is seven two oh nine
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one three seven eight sixty seven. Callers may remain anonymous,
and there is an award for.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
All of these cases up to two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Some might have more of an award, but it is
so important that we get these cases out there. I'm
going to be posting a picture of all the victims.
I'm also going to post a picture of all of
the locations where the victims were found as well. They
again are all around Denver, and the only one that
is no longer standing is the home that Eric lost
(28:56):
his life in, but I do have a photo of
that home.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
There is a.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Build now on the property as of I want to
say twenty twenty three, maybe a little earlier, but back
in nineteen eighty one, like I said, it was a small,
little two bedroom home that's sat on that property. So
I'm going to be sharing all of that on social media.
Thank you guys so much for tuning in to this
Denver Unsolved mash up. These cases are so important to share,
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so important to get the word out. And hopefully one
of these days I'll be able to come on and
tell you guys that one or all of these cases
have had breaking news and we have a little bit
of resolution in these stories. But I appreciate you, guys.
I will see you next week for a brand new
Unsolved cold case and I hope you have a great
(29:45):
weekend ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Bye
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