Defense in “Hammer Killer” trial says multiple attackers carried out Aurora family’s 1984 slaying

Alex Ewing on trial for murder of two parents and a child in Aurora

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Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
Alex Ewing, the alleged listens in court with his public defender during his appearance before Jefferson County District Court Judge Tamara Russell for an advisement on March 10, 2020 in Golden. Ewing has been extradited and returned to Colorado to face charges for the 1984 murder of 50-year-old Patricia Smith in Jefferson County. He also is charged with killing three family members in Arapahoe County.
By Shelly Bradbury | sbradbury@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: July 27, 2021 at 10:58 a.m. | UPDATED: July 27, 2021 at 12:55 p.m.

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Shelly Bradbury | Courts Reporter

Shelly Bradbury is the courts reporter at the Denver Post. She joined the paper in 2019 and previously worked as a crime reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pennsylvania and the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee. She’s been a reporter since 2012, focused on criminal justice. In Pittsburgh, she helped the newspaper earn the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news after a mass shooting at a local synagogue, and in 2020 she was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for an investigation into child sexual abuse among Amish and Mennonite communities.