Denver police say they have identified a man responsible for killing three women and a 17-year-old girl in separate incidents between 1978 and 1981.
Denver police say they have identified a man responsible for killing three women and a 17-year-old girl in separate incidents between 1978 and 1981 by using DNA technology and genealogy to link the cold cases to a single suspect.The man, Joe Michael Ervin, killed himself in a suburban Denver jail in 1981 while under investigation for another slaying — the shooting death of an Aurora police officer, the Denver Police Department announced Friday.
Police said they linked the four cases through DNA evidence between 2013 and 2018. Using genetic genealogy, they identified a biological relative of the then-unknown suspect in Texas. Ervin's remains were exhumed in Texas late last year, and DNA from the remains and from the crime scenes confirmed his identity as the suspect in the four slayings.
"I'm angered because he didn't face justice," Parks' brother George Journey told KCNC-TV."But I know my mom and family wouldn't want us angry. They'd want us to be happy that this is all brought to a close."Ervin killed himself on July 1, 1981, in the Adams County Detention Center just days after Corr's slaying. He had been arrested at his home in Aurora while trying to saw a handcuff Corr had placed on his wrist before he grabbed her gun.
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