Robert's Stories

Twenty years ago, a Colorado Springs house fire killed three children and devastated a community. Prosecutors used spurious science to convict the parents of murder. Should there be a new trial?

How the Only All-Black Team in College Swimming Became the Sport's Hottest Ticket.

When military police shot and killed a 24-year-old Denver soldier near his Army base in Texas in 1942, his family and friends suspected the military hid the true details. Eighty years later, this is the real story.

In summer 2020, the nation's attention turned to the killing of a 23-year-old Aurora man. His death prompted a flood of more than 8,500 letters from outside the state of Colorado — all begging Governor Jared Polis for justice. We read every one.

Life, loss, fear, and hope in one Denver homeless encampment.

The inside story of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe’s race to protect its sovereign nation from Covid — and how the pandemic transformed this southwestern Colorado reservation forever.

Several long-serving members of NecroSearch, the world’s preeminent group for locating and retrieving missing bodies, are nearing retirement age. What happens to the organization once they’re gone?

In 1992, engineers completed construction on the Glenwood Canyon stretch of Colorado’s most important east-west interstate. Today, climate change threatens that critical section of Interstate 70 — and anyone who travels it.

"The photographer asked me what I wanted to do, expecting I'd do one of the basic poses. I thought about it for a second, and then it came to me: 'I want it to look like a comebacker hit me in the nuts.'"