Boulder County coroner IDs body found over 50 years ago
After nearly 55 years, a body found in Boulder County has been identified.
The Boulder County Coroner’s office on Thursday announced it has identified a set of remains found in Bluebell Canyon in August 1971 as Douglas Sumner, 22. The identification concluded decades of investigative and forensic work, the coroner’s office said and now allows the coroner to move on to trying to find Sumner’s family members.
Anyone who may have information is asked to contact the Boulder County Coroner’s Office at 303-441-3535. The coroner’s office did not say how Sumner was identified.
Coroner and medical examiner’s offices often have multiple open cases at a time for pending IDs or family identification, with some being months or even years old.
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Marissa Ventrelli
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The Associated Press
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Updated 1 day ago
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Nicholas Fogleman
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Deborah Grigsby
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Updated 1 day ago
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Jeffco taxpayers could be on the hook for a possible child sex assault settlement
Matt Kyle
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Updated 1 day ago
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Colorado Springs D-11 may present voters with $775 million bond measure
Eric Young
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Updated 2 days ago
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Denver seeks to move more than $18 million to cover George Floyd protest claims
Deborah Grigsby
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Updated 2 days ago
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Small Colorado town grapples with ICE detention center opening
Nico Brambila
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Updated 2 days ago
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Jeffco Public Schools sues Trump administration to protect funding after alleged transgender policies violation
Matt Kyle
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Updated 2 days ago
In the wake of several threats by the Trump administration to revoke federal funding, Jeffco Public Schools filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education seeking to protect that badly needed money. Jeffco has been under investigation by the DOE’s...
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