Tag: Denver Medical Examiner
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Unidentified, unclaimed: How the Denver Medical Examiner’s office reunites people with their deceased loved ones
More than a dozen corpses at the Denver Medical Examiner’s Office are unidentified and officials have no idea who they were. Some of these people were found dead within the last few months. Others have waited years, even decades, to be identified. There are some who investigators were able to identify, only for them to…
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Denver overdose deaths highest in a century of record keeping
Drug overdose deaths hit Denver harder in 2023 than they ever have in 100 years of record keeping, preliminary numbers from last year show. The overdose crisis has, in particular, hammered the city’s homeless population. Homeless people made up 38% of the overdose deaths last year, according to the data. In 2023, 522 people died…
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American Elm to reopen for Mother’s Day weekend after double homicide shook community
American Elm, the Denver West Highland neighborhood restaurant where two employees were killed in late April, will re-open for Mother’s Day weekend and then temporarily close again. The restaurant will be open from 4-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and then open for brunch at 10 a.m. Sunday and offer dinner service into the evening, according…