A former Nevada jail inmate was discovered responsible of homicide on Thursday, his second conviction in an extended unsolved killing involving a hammer within the Denver space practically 40 years in the past.
Jurors discovered Alex Ewing responsible within the killing of Patricia Smith in Lakewood in 1984 after greater than 4 hours of deliberations, CBS Denver reported.
Final yr, Ewing was convicted of killing three members of a household in one other Denver suburb six days after Smith was killed. He was sentenced to 3 consecutive life sentences for killing Bruce and Debra Bennett and their 7-year-old daughter Melissa in Aurora. Solely the youngest daughter, Vanessa, survived.
Prosecutors stated he was armed with a hammer and knife.
Ewing was recognized as a suspect in each circumstances in 2018 via DNA proof whereas in imprisoned in Nevada, the place he was convicted of attacking a pair within the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson in 1984 with an ax deal with of their bed room. The outcomes of a DNA pattern taken from Ewing have been linked with DNA finally developed from proof taken from the scenes of the Colorado killings.
This was Ewing's second trial for the loss of life of Smith. The first in October of final yr was declared a mistrial after a choose granted a competency examine.
