Colorado
10,127 murders reported in Colorado from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 82%. Explore the statistics →
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Cases
Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
SingleUnsolved1 victimJonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old kindergartner, was reported missing from her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, early on December 26, 1996; a handwritten ransom note was found in the house.
Murder of Matthew Shepard
SingleConvicted1 victimMatthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay University of Wyoming student, was abducted from a Laramie bar on the night of October 6, 1998, by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, who drove him to a rural area east of town,…
Oklahoma City bombing
MassConvictedAt 9:02 a.m.
Alferd Packer
MassConvicted5 victimsIn the winter of 1873-74 Alferd Packer and five other prospectors set out across the San Juan Mountains of Colorado against advice to wait for spring.
Chris Watts
MassPleaded guilty3 victimsOn August 13, 2018, Chris Watts killed his pregnant wife, Shanann, 34, and their daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, at their home in Frederick, Colorado, then hid their bodies at a remote Anadarko Petroleum oil site…
Murder of Anna Mae Aquash
SingleConvicted1 victimAnna Mae Aquash, a 30-year-old Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia and a prominent member of the American Indian Movement, was taken from Denver in December 1975, driven to Rapid City and onto the Pine Ridge Reservation,…
Ted Bundy
SerialExecuted20 victimsTed Bundy abducted and murdered young women and girls in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Florida between 1974 and 1978.
