A DNA hit led quickly to formal charges against Alex Christopher Ewing in two notorious Colorado murder cases. But with crimes dating back to the 1980s, in the midst of a pandemic, getting him in front of a jury would be a slow process that would grate on those left behind.

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Park Ranger Mike Meyer patrolled the not-so-tranquil waters of Lake Mead during the go-go ‘80s, a time of cocaine, powerboats and mob hits. But his biggest bust came the day he crossed paths with Alex Christopher Ewing – and had to decide whether to open fire.

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Nancy Barry heard her baby cry, jumped up to fix a bottle, and walked into her kitchen to find a shirtless man carrying a club. The man savagely beat her and her husband – then vanished into the desert, leaving behind only footprints. Even so, police knew pretty quickly who they were after

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It was the early morning of Jan. 27, 1984. A 25-pound rock slammed into Roy Williams, jolting him awake, cracking a rib and tearing open a gash in his head that would require 85 stitches. Just as fast, the shadowy figure that attacked him bolted, disappearing into the desert outside Kingman, Arizona. Only decades later would he learn that the man accused of attacking him had allegedly killed four people earlier that month in Colorado.

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In 1984, Henderson was a sleepy bedroom community of fewer than 30,000 people 15 miles from the Las Vegas strip. It was seldom in the news. That changed the night a suspect in a middle-of-the-night rock attack fled from sheriff’s deputies during a bathroom break at a Henderson filling station.

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Alex Christopher Ewing finally faces a jury – and leaves an indelible memory on the woman beaten with a weathered ax handle and the prosecutor who tried him for escape, burglary and attempted murder. 

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The Blame team wants to tell you about a new podcast that takes a deep dive into the art of interrogation. The first episode features the case of Christopher Watts in Colorado and how investigators saw through a web of lies, opening the door to solving the horrific murders of his pregnant wife and daughters.

A legal opinion from Nevada’s attorney general finally caught up with a man who’d been behind bars there for decades. Suddenly, there was a flurry of activity in Colorado – all of it kept under wraps by police until the day a tip to a reporter led to a stunning scoop. Would it be the answer?

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The murders of three members of the Bennett family — and, to a lesser degree, the killing of Patricia Smith — got lots of attention. But they weren’t the first hammer attacks in the area. Before those slayings, there was an attack on a young couple and an assault on a woman who was left for dead.

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