RSS‘The Killing Season’ tests mettle of local law enforcement agencies
Loyd Files Research Library Museum of Western Colorado
POLICE CAME UNDER intense criticism in late summer 1975 as they investigated the killings of two women and two children, for which Kenneth Botham, husband of one of the victims, was convicted the next year. Botham, right, is shown in a courtroom in 1976.
It began with an argument that led to a mentally ill son fatally shooting his father. It ended with someone binding, raping and strangling a Mesa College coed inside her apartment. During…
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