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Corrye Brewer timeline

Friday, Jan. 24 – Corrye Brewer last seen at home

11:30 a.m.: Michelle Gilbert’s husband, Milton, calls 911, telling the operator that his wife had been hearing voices and saying, “They’re coming to get us.”

1:25 p.m.: While at their home, Michelle Gilbert tells her husband, Milton, she needs to “get momma outta here right now,” according to Ring camera footage viewed by investigators. Gilbert takes her mother’s coat to the car. Around this time, Milton Gilbert said he told his wife to leave her 97-year-old-mother, Corrye Brewer, alone.

3:30 p.m.: Milton Gilbert said he left for Pueblo to coach a basketball game, which investigators confirm.

5:09 to 5:13 p.m.: Michelle Gilbert comes in and out of the house several more times. She repeatedly tells Brewer, “Come on,” and says, “You’re taking too long. We gotta get outta the house.” Gilbert then walks her mother to the car.

6:53 to 8:13 p.m.: Vehicle app data tracks Michelle Gilbert’s car, a white Lexus, driving a total of 32 miles for 79 minutes. The trip ends at a location that is redacted in the sheriff’s report.

9 p.m.: Vehicle app data shows Michelle Gilbert’s car as parked at a location that is redacted in the sheriff’s report, but it is 18 miles due east of Gilbert’s home in Peyton, the same distance and direction as the vacant house off Judge Orr Road in Calhan that would become the focus of Corrye Brewer’s death.

9:22 p.m.: El Paso County 911 dispatch receives a phone call from a woman who refuses to give her name or location despite being asked. Using cell tower data, the caller is later identified as Michelle Gilbert, and the call is tracked to a location along Judge Orr Road in Calhan.

9:51 p.m.: Two deputies are sent out to the house and encounter Michelle Gilbert’s car, which is parked by a red SUV. Body-camera footage obtained by The Gazette shows Gilbert initially trying to drive off before being persuaded to talk.

10:01 p.m.: The deputy speaking with Michelle Gilbert goes back to his patrol car and tells the other deputy, who stayed inside the car, that “something’s real off.” One says Michelle Gilbert isn’t making any sense.

10:10 p.m.: Michelle Gilbert tells the deputies that she wants to get home to Peyton to see her husband, whom she earlier said was in the hospital. The deputies allow her to leave.

10:30 p.m.: Milton Gilbert returns home from Pueblo. He later tells deputies that the vehicle app data is showing his wife driving around downtown Colorado Springs, that all of the doors at their residence were unlocked, and the home’s security system was turned off. He described this as odd.

11:49 p.m.: Ring camera footage attached to the Gilberts’ front door shows Michelle Gilbert’s arrival home is almost two hours after she spoke to the two deputies on Judge Orr Road.

11:51 p.m.: Michelle Gilbert is heard talking off camera before walking back to the door with items in her arms. She turns back again.

12:10 a.m.: Michelle Gilbert walks back to the front door and says, as recorded by the Ring camera, “You are not gonna get my husband. You don’t get it. These are not subjects you play about.”

12:51 a.m.: Milton Gilbert can be heard at the door, and his hand is seen holding the screen door open for his wife as she walks out.

Saturday, Jan. 25 – Corrye Brewer reported missing

8:28 a.m.: Milton Gilbert gets a call from the Colorado Springs Police Department telling him that his wife is at a gas station “acting odd.” Officers say Michelle Gilbert drove off.

11:44 a.m.: Michelle Gilbert is found parked near a UPS and T-Mobile store by deputies. She tells a deputy that she had asked someone to look up her lawyer’s number because she’d lost her phone. Milton Gilbert is alerted and comes to pick up his wife, who was being detained. Upon arrival, deputies learn from Milton Gilbert that Corrye Brewer is missing.

1:20 p.m.: A detective interviews Milton Gilbert at his home. Michelle Gilbert is also there, but investigators report she was “uncooperative” and repeatedly asked them to leave as she swept the floor. When asked why he didn’t report Brewer as missing earlier, Milton Gilbert says that he “didn’t know” and it “was stupid.”

7:20 p.m.: The lead sheriff’s detective arrives at the Gilberts’ home. During a basement walkthrough, she is told that Brewer’s walker was found in the trunk of Michelle Gilbert’s car.

11:30 p.m.: A deputy goes back to the unoccupied home along Judge Orr Road to check for anything “suspicious.” He searches the premises, noting there are no track marks and that he “looked in vehicles here.” At this time, there are three vehicles on the premises. It is not specified in the sheriff’s report if the red SUV was searched.

Sunday, Jan. 26 – Corrye Brewer is found

12:22 p.m.: Corrye Brewer’s body is found lying on the ground near the parked red SUV, with its back passenger door open. According to the El Paso County Coroner’s report, she died from hypothermia. Multiple bruises and scrapes were found on her body. Her death was ruled a homicide.


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