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Alex Christopher Ewing now set to stand trial in Bennett family murders in July, August. Author: Kevin Vaughan Updated: 11:10 AM MST February 24, 2021 ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. A trial in one of Colorado’s most notorious murder cases – the 1984 hammer slayings of three members of an Aurora family – was delayed Wednesday after prosecutors, defense attorneys and the judge concluded they could not go before a jury in April as had been planned. Alex Christopher Ewing, identified as a suspect in the case in 2018, is now tentatively set to go on trial in late July in the beating deaths of Bruce and Debra Bennett and their 7-year-old daughter, Melissa. ....
For 2 decades, police, DA alleged hammer murder killer raped only survivor defense says it isn t true Attorneys for Alex Ewing seek the dismissal of charges or other sanctions for assertions repeatedly made in court filings. Author: Kevin Vaughan Updated: 2:32 PM MST February 23, 2021 AURORA, Colo. Defense attorneys in the notorious 1984 hammer murders of three members of the Bennett family in Aurora have accused police and prosecutors of misleading the public on a key allegation in the case – that the killer sexually assaulted the only survivor, a 3-year-old girl. Vanessa Bennett suffered massive head injuries in the attack that left her parents, Bruce and Debra, and 7-year-old sister, Melissa, dead. Melissa Bennett was sexually assaulted, according to court documents and that has not been disputed. ....
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. ....