GUILTY CO - Thomas Datema, 74, shot to death, Arapahoe County, 30 Oct 2010

mysticrose · Oct 31, 2010

Body Found In Car Outside Jail, Driver Held

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) ―

The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department says 40-year-old Robert L. Johnson of Byers went to the jail Saturday to surrender on an outstanding warrant from another, unspecified incident.

When deputies checked Johnson's car, they saw what appeared to be explosives and ordered the evacuation of nearby buildings......

http://cbs4denver.com/local/detentions.center.lockdown.2.1988843.html

mysticrose · Oct 31, 2010

Only if they all could be this ignorant !!!!

Marie · Oct 31, 2010

mysticrose said:
Only if they all could be this ignorant !!!!

So true! This guy is not very smart :waitasec:

LadyL · Oct 31, 2010

did he just like, 'forget' he had a dead body in the vehicle? :waitasec:

Texas Mist · Nov 1, 2010

Man who put body in trunk may have lured his victim

ARAPAHOE COUNTY - Investigators believe Robert Johnson, 40, lured his 80-year old victim into a trap last week shortly before shooting the man in the back of his head.

Two days later, they say, Johnson drove to the Arapahoe County Jail in his victim's car ready to talk to authorities. Inside the car's trunk was the victim himself.

It was on Thursday of last week, according to a newly-released arrest affidavit, when Johnson told the victim that his truck had broken down on County Road 118 near Byers. The 80-year-old man "advised that he would respond to his location with a tow strap."

When he showed up on scene, the victim opened up his trunk looking for that tow strap. The affidavit suggests Johnson then held a gun "6 inches from the back of his head and shot."

The man partially fell into the trunk. "[Johnson] then pushed [the victim] into the trunk and closed the trunk" according to the affidavit.

As of Monday afternoon, the victim's name has not been released.

Prosecutors expect to charge Johnson with first-degree murder in the victim's death. He is expected in court on Tuesday morning.

rest of the (bizarre) story here

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=161160&catid=339

OkieGranny · Nov 5, 2015

From December 2012:

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/12/13/man-convicted-in-body-outside-arapahoe-jail-case/

A man who drove to the Arapahoe County Jail with a body in the trunk of his car has been convicted by a jury of first-degree murder.

Forty-two-year-old Robert Leroy Johnson faces life in prison in the October 2010 death of Thomas Francis Datema.

Without parole, according to Colorado DOC:

https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/

GUILTY CO - Thomas Datema, 74, shot to death, Arapahoe County, 30 Oct 2010

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