The suspect in the murder of a Colorado woman found dead in a Denver suburb was arrested more than half the state away the day after Lakewood police officers found the body, according to police.
Police were called to a home in Lakewood’s Green Mountain neighborhood at about 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday on a report of a missing person. When they arrived, friends of the home’s resident said they’d found an adult woman’s body inside.
The body was identified as Hilary Engel, 45, and police said that it appeared she died of strangulation.
Investigators identified Karl Aaron Bemish, 51, as the suspect in Engel’s death and obtained a warrant for his arrest.