Ewing is scheduled to go on trial in April on multiple counts of first-degree murder.
But the case has been beset by delays – and it’s possible there could be more – so Arapahoe County District Judge Michelle Amico allowed the testimony of several older witnesses now. If any of them are not available to testify when the trial is held, the videotaped testimony recorded Tuesday could be used.
Ewing, 60, was serving a long prison sentence in Nevada for an attack later in 1984 on a Henderson couple when a DNA hit identified him as the suspect in the Bennett murders and in the killings of Patricia Louise Smith in Lakewood a week earlier.