EDITOR’S NOTE: The No. 2 story is Multiple investigations into the District Attorney’s Office The 11th Judicial District Attorney’s Office has come under fire this year. There have been multiple requests for an investigation into the DA’s Office submitted to the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, a federal lawsuit was filed against the office, several […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The No. 1 story is the discovery of decomposing bodies at the Penrose funeral home. Motorists, bicyclists, runners, neighbors. Thousands of people traveled past the desolate building at 31 Werner Road in Penrose every day, but none suspected the horror that had been mounting for years inside those four walls. Until early October […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The No. 3 story is the community suffers the loss of several teens to car crashes. In 2023, Fremont County suffered the loss of several teenage victims from car crashes. A Cañon City teenager died Oct. 2 after the car he was riding in crashed along Colo. 115 in El Paso County. According […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The No. 4 story is Roxanne Archuletta – infant cold case. Fourteen-month-old Roxanne Marie Archuletta was found dead in her bed in the early morning hours of Nov. 2, 1967. According to previous Daily Record articles, the baby’s mother, Norma Lyne Archuletta, who was 28 at the time, and her friend, Keith Emmanuel […]
The 86-year-old Florence man who was indicted earlier this year on suspicion of causing the death of a 14-month-old baby in 1967 appeared in district court Monday. Keith Emmanuel Smith was arrested Sept. 7 in connection to the 1967 death of Roxanne Marie Archuletta. He bonded out of jail the next day. He has been […]