The death of Elijah McClain prompted a flood of more than 8,500 letters from outside the state of Colorado—all begging Governor Jared Polis for justice. The author opens every one.

Life, loss, fear, and hope in one Denver homeless encampment as the novel coronavirus upended services for some of the city’s most vulnerable citizens.

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.

The country was captivated by the Balloon Boy. But what really happened?

The shooting of a civilian exposes the underbelly of a small town police department.

An elite group of forensic scientists, charged with finding hidden human remains, nears retirement age.

Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.

The demise of a once-great newspaper.

Thousands of people have waded into New Mexico’s high desert searching for a small chest filled with millions in gold, jewels, and jade. Randy Bilyeu never made it back.

Last August, contaminated water escaped from an abandoned mine in Colorado and traveled down the Animas River to Shiprock, the second-largest city in the Navajo Nation. Two weeks later, the EPA declared the sludge-filled river safe.

A respected anti-gang crusader shoots and paralyzes another man.

Will LaFever never felt right in the world. So he took to the Utah desert, barely making it out alive.

A man tries to rebuild his life after killing four people in a car crash.

A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.

In 1960, beer heir Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and murdered. A look back at the crime and the man who committed it.