Colorado
Colorado man sentenced for murdering former friend, burying him in condominium crawl space
A Colorado man will serve three decades in prison after he murdered a former friend and buried him in the crawl space under a condominium. Haskel Leroy Crawford was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the 2022 death of Karl Beaman Jr.
Beaman’s mother, Kyla Dubberstein, who lives in Arizona, called the Aurora Police Department in 2023 to report her son as missing, telling police she had not heard from him since May 2022. She said that she believed Crawford may have attacked her son because the two of them were nearly caught stealing catalytic converters. Dubberstein also created a Facebook page to help find Beaman.
A tipster with the user name “Nope TryAgain” contacted her and said Crawford and his girlfriend, Casie Bock, had buried Beaman in a shallow grave under Bock’s condo and covered his remains in concrete. The tipster told Dubberstein that Crawford murdered her son because he believed he was a police informant in a criminal case.
Beaman and Crawford had been long-time friends. Deputy District Attorney Michele Fuller said, “Mr. Beaman died at the hands of someone he considered his best friend and brother of nearly two decades.”
Authorities contacted the tipster, who told them Bock admitted to the crime one night while “very high.”
Police executed a warrant at Bock’s condo building and accessed the crawlspace through her bedroom, where they found Beaman’s decomposed body.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Kristina Hayden said if it weren’t for Beaman’s devotion to finding her son, Crawford’s actions may have never come to light.
Bock pleaded guilty to being an accessory to a crime and helping Crawford move Beaman’s body into the crawlspace. She told detectives that she returned home from work that day to find Beaman lying on the ground with a white plastic Walmart bag over his head and claimed that Crawford forced her to help move the body. She received a deferred judgment in 2023.
Crawford pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Beaman’s death and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Judge Baker ordered Crawford’s sentence to be served consecutively to a 16-year sentence for an unrelated aggravated robbery in Jefferson County, a sentence he is currently serving at the Bent County Correctional Facility.
“He murdered my only child,” Dubberstein said at the sentencing hearing. “This plea agreement means my son’s loved ones, our family, and my husband and I are spared from having to listen to the horrific details or seeing graphic images of the brutality that took place. We may never know all the details, but the defendant does. I hope it haunts him every day for the rest of his life like it does me.”
DENVER – The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today the team has signed defenseman Brett Kulak to a five-year contract extension through the 2030-31 season.
Kulak, 32, was originally acquired by the Avalanche in a trade with Pittsburgh on Feb. 24, 2026 and tallied three points (0g/3a) in 27 regular-season showings for Colorado over 19:08 of average time on ice per game. His 2025-26 regular season consisted of playing for the Edmonton Oilers and Penguins in addition to the Avalanche where he totaled 12 points (1g/11a) in 83 contests. Kulak was the only NHLer to skate in 83 games last season. Additionally, he dressed in his 600th career NHL contest on Nov. 15 at Carolina and notched his 100th career assist on Dec. 30 vs. Carolina.
The 6-foot-1, 192-pound defenseman was in the lineup for all 13 Stanley Cup Playoff games for the Avalanche in 2026 and chipped in five points (1g/4a) and logged 20:38 of time on ice per game. The goal was his first with the Burgundy and Blue, regular season or postseason, and it came as the overtime-winner in Game 5 of the Second Round (May 13) to send the Avalanche to the Western Conference Final. It was the third time a defenseman scored a series clinching overtime goal in Avalanche/Nordiques history and the first since Sandis Ozolinsh (Game 6 of the 1996 Conference Semifinal) did it 30 years to the date prior to Kulak’s. Additionally, Kulak’s marker was the 10th time an Avalanche/Nordiques skater sent the team to the next round with an overtime tally and the first instance since Artturi Lehkonen in Game 4 of the 2022 Western Conference Final (June 6, 2022).
A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Kulak has registered 137 points (29g/108a) in 663 career regular-season games with Colorado, Pittsburgh, Edmonton, the Montreal Canadiens and Calgary Flames from 2014-26. The last 370 of those games have come consecutively and he enters 2026-27 with the ninth-longest active “Iron Man” streak in the NHL. The left-shot defenseman has also added 29 points (4g/25a) over 111 career Stanley Cup Playoff contests and has been a member of three teams that have made it to the Stanley Cup Final (2023-24 and 2024-25 Oilers, 2020-21 Canadiens). Kulak’s 111 playoff games lead all NHL defensemen since making his postseason debut in 2020 and are second among all skaters in that span behind only Corey Perry (126).
Originally drafted by the Flames in the fourth round (105th overall) in the 2012 NHL Draft, Kulak appeared in 136 AHL games over parts of the 2012-19 campaigns (13g/41a). He was also a member of the then-ECHL Colorado Eagles for part of 2014-15. Prior to turning pro, Kulak played for the Western Hockey League’s Vancouver Giants from 2010-14 and amassed 128 points (35g/93a) in 216 regular-season contests.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is searching for a missing child.
CSPD said 11-year-old Emilio Gerardo was last seen Thursday around 8:06 p.m. near North Carefree Circle and Peterson Road.
Gerardo is described as a 4-foot-8 and 65-pound Hispanic male with brown hair and brown eyes.
Police said he was last seen in a black shirt, black pants and black Converse shoes. They said he may have a VR headset with him.
Police said he could be in the area of Sand Creek High School or Remington Park.
If you see Gerardo or know where he may be, contact the Colorado Springs Police Department at 719-444-7000.
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Kids escape unscathed after van slips off Colorado mountain road and down Blue River embankment
A van carrying campers from a hike near Blue River rolled down an embankment Thursday afternoon, but everyone inside escaped without major injuries. According to the Keystone Science School, the 15-passenger van was transporting 13 campers and two adults back from Mohawk Lakes when it slid off a wet road and rolled over.
Emergency crews responded to Spruce Creek Road after receiving reports of a single-vehicle rollover.
“We’re fortunate that it was low speed, and there was no intrusion into the passenger cabin,” Matt Benedict, division chief of wildfire and community preparedness for Red, White and Blue Fire said.
Investigators believe muddy conditions created by recent rainfall contributed to the crash. The van rolled down a steep embankment before coming to rest against a tree. Two people suffered minor injuries, but neither required transportation to a hospital, according to fire officials.
Keystone Science School confirmed emergency responders arrived quickly and that no major injuries were reported.
“The safety and well-being of our campers and staff is our highest priority,” Executive Director Eric Rightor said in a statement. “We are grateful that there were no major injuries, and we are committed to fully supporting all those involved and their families.”
Fire officials also credited seatbelt use for helping protect those inside the vehicle. “We always encourage everyone to wear their seatbelts… and they did. And everybody left,” Benedict said.
The Keystone Science School is located in Summit County.
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