FireMedic65 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19451651/detail.html BOULDER, Colo. -- The 18-year-old Broomfield man accused in the slaying of a 13-year-old girl admitted to several friends that he killed her, according to evidence laid out in a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Boulder. Alexander Paul Pacheco is charged with first-degree murder in the October 2008 slaying of Kelsey Shannon. Her badly decomposed remains were found in a Broomfield drainage ditch last January. An autopsy determined that Kelsey died as a result of "homicidal violence." According to testimony in Pacheco's preliminary hearing, he told a friend he strangled Shannon "until her eyes rolled back in her head." He then stabbed her in the throat multiple times to make sure she was dead. Also revealed in court Wednesday: Pacheco admitted to a friend that he had sex with the corpse afterward until the body turned cold. He faces an additional charge of abuse of a corpse, based on that admission. A friend of Pacheco told police that Pacheco took him to the area where he had dumped the body and said he wanted to retrieve a condom that he used after killing Kelsey. The friend told police that Pacheco also showed a lock of hair he kept in a tissue that he said belonged to Kelsey. Pacheco visited the body several times in a watery marsh, according to police. Pacheco may have tried moving it with a sled to better hide it and also debated putting in a barrel filled with soda and bleach in the hopes it would eat away at the body. He said he could smash the teeth and spread them over Colorado so police couldn't identify the remains through dental records. Additional testimony revealed that Pacheco and Kelsey were a couple and that the two had sex during the relationship. On Oct. 14, Kelsey told her parents that she was going to go for a walk, after she and her parents had a disagreement about Kelsey's relationship with Pacheco. She never returned home and was reported as a runaway. Pacheco also told friends he wouldn't get caught because she had written a "runaway" note. The preliminary hearing is the first time evidence against Pacheco has been revealed. District Judge John E. Popovich will decide if there is enough evidence for Pacheco to stand trial. Pacheco has been held without bond since his arrest three days after Kelsey's body was discovered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridryder 911 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Take him to the woods, tie him to a tree and forget about him. R/r 911 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Cut him off too short to hang up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert gift Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Such human defects sadly need to be destroyed. Would like to know more about his family. Are others also souless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustdevil Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 On Oct. 14, Kelsey told her parents that she was going to go for a walk, after she and her parents had a disagreement about Kelsey's relationship with Pacheco. She never returned home and was reported as a runaway. Way to sentence your child to death, mom and dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard B the EMT Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Way to sentence your child to death, mom and dad. Per the information in the article, there appears to not be a way the parents could have predicted the final outcome. This in no way says that the parents are not feeling remorse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBEMT Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Way to sentence your child to death, mom and dad. To be fair, I think if my daughter told me she had an 18 year-old boyfriend, we might have a "disagreement" about it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireMedic65 Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 Parents make bad decisions all the time. Given I am not a parent, but I see it all the time. The parents were right to have doubts of their daughter dating this guy solely based on their ages. There wasn't much said about the girl to know to say what kind of a person she was, but my guess would be she was easily manipulated by an older guy wanting to be with her. She most likely would have been with him regardless of what the parents said. Now for that sick freak, I could say quite a few things that I believe he should get, but let's just say he should suffer, quite a bit. Just as every other murderer, rapist and pedophile out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeepluv77 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 If my 13y/o daughter told me she had an 18y/o boyfriend she wouldn't be left unattended for a second for a very long time. Also, why were the police not called to look into a possible statutory(sp?) case? I won't even go into what I think should be done with this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ems1997 Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 i am not goin to feel sorry for him in prison the guys there will give him "special treatment" hope that he enjoys every minute of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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