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...prison in January 2008, nearly 10 years after being arrested and later convicted in the 1987 slaying and sexual mutilation of Peggy Hettrick in Fort Collins. Masters was released after DNA testing failed to place him at the scene and the discovery of evidence...
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There are lots of reasons to live in Holland. But, for Selma and Richard Eikelenboom, the low crime rate isn't one of them.
The Dutch duo is in the business of murder — or, rather, solving them by plucking bits of DNA from evidence. Given that
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Denver Post
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Meet Tim Masters,
a genius such as seldom graces humanity. His intellect ranks with
da Vincis, Newtons, Einsteins indeed, he may surpass them all.
Why? Because after DNA evidence forced the State of Colorado to
overturn his conviction for murder and
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Tim Masters squarely blames Fort Collins, Colorado, police and prosecutors for his inability to land gainful employment and for his not having a wife and kids at this stage in his life.
In 1987, Masters became the prime suspect in the slaying of Peggy
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(CNN) -- Tim Masters squarely blames Fort Collins, Colorado, police and prosecutors for his inability to land gainful employment and for his not having a wife and kids at this stage in his life.
Tim Masters, left, stands with attorney David Wymore,
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...COLLINS - The former prosecutor who led the murder case against Timothy Masters says he believes the Feb. 11, 1987, murder of Peggy Hettrick will "never" be solved. Interviewed at length by state attorney regulators who ultimately disciplined him, Judge Terry...
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The two former prosecutors in the Timothy Masters case say they wish they had done things differently, calling problems with the case "embarrassing" and "frustrating."
In separate May interviews with attorney regulators who ultimately disciplined them,
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090208/LOVELAND01/302080002/1193/LOVELAND01
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A year after his release from prison, Tim Masters is still struggling to make a living, bouncing between Colorado and Arizona, reconnecting with friends and family - and avoiding Fort Collins.
"Right now I'm wondering how I'm going to make enough money
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090126/NEWS01/901260323/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02
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Like many people in this country, Masters is trying to figure out how to make ends meet in a lousy economy. But unlike most, the 37-year-old has a 10-year gap in his resume. He spent that time, from his arrest in 1998 to his release on Jan. 22, 2008,
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Like many people in this country, Masters is trying to figure out how to make ends meet in a lousy economy. But unlike most, the 37-year-old has a 10-year gap in his resume. He spent that time, from his arrest in 1998 to his release on Jan. 22, 2008,
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The Coloradoan
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The police officers, prosecutors and city officials being sued for wrongful prosecution and imprisonment by Tim Masters are asking a federal judge to halt all proceedings and rule whether Masters can even sue any of them.
The parties - including Fort
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090122/NEWS01/901220336/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02
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Donald Long, left, who is serving life for the killings of Linda Holt and Mona Hughes, stands with Andy Galvadon, deputy state public defender, in a Greeley courtroom.
More than 21 years ago, near the corner of Landings and Boardwalk drives in Fort
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He must cope with prison memories, overcome anger and find his way in a world that, in many ways, passed him by. "How do you give me back my reputation?" says the 37-year-old Greeley man. "How do you give me back 10 years of my life?"
a free, $4,000
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Mona Hughes' body was found Dec. 1, 1987, in a little-used barn, right, north of Greeley, just off County Road 76. She disappeared Nov. 7, 1987. Below is the inside of Linda Holt's van after it was discovered by police a day after she disappeared on
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It is known, among both the locals who leave their doors unlocked and the world's experts in homicide, as The Crime Farm. A modest dwelling in a pastoral village about 45 minutes outside Amsterdam, it is home and labratory to Selma and Richard
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(CBS)Â In February 1987, people in Fort Collins, Colo., were on edge after a woman, Peggy Hettrick, was found murdered and sexually mutilated.
Police almost immediately zeroed in on a local teenager named Tim Masters, even though there was no
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(CBS)Â Tim Masters is 37 years old, the same age as Peggy Hettrick was when she was murdered in 1987. Hettricks mutilated, half naked body was discovered in a field in Fort Collins, Colo. and Masters has lived in the shadow of the brutal crime ever since...
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- An internal investigation by Fort Collins police has cleared Lt. Jim Broderick of violating any department policies or procedures stemming from his involvement in a murder case against a man whose conviction was overturned
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The Larimer County Commissioners on Tuesday agreed to cover the legal bills for two former prosecutors, along with the current and former district attorneys, in the federal wrongful conviction lawsuit filed by Timothy Masters.
The county had already
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20081119/NEWS01/81119008/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02
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DENVER - Timothy Masters on Tuesday sued Fort Collins, multiple police officers, prosecutors and judges in a long-expected federal civil rights lawsuit claiming he was wrongfully convicted for the 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick.
Masters spent nearly 10
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The Coloradoan
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The psychologist who created the theory that helped send Tim Masters to prison now says his opinions were manipulated by Fort Collins authorities and that a now-deceased eye surgeon better fit his profile of Peggy Hettrick's killer, according to a
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10771564?source=rss
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Lawyers who helped get Tim Masters' murder conviction overturned challenged members of the Northern Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to fight "systemic problems" in the Larimer County judicial system.
A jury in 1999 convicted
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The Coloradoan
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DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Colorado's Supreme Court censured two former prosecutors for failing to turn over information to attorneys for a man who served 10 years in prison on a first-degree murder conviction before he was freed.
Tim Masters was 15
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CNN
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Colorado attorney regulators are moving forward with an ethical-misconduct case against the former Larimer County assistant district attorneys who prosecuted Tim Masters, according to a source close to the 8-month-old inquiry.
Terry Gilmore and Jolene
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Denver Post
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A special judge has ignored requests by Timothy Masters' attorneys to have Colorado Attorney General John Suthers thrown off the investigation into Peggy Hettrick's fatal 1987 stabbing death.
Masters' lawyers argue that since the AG's office defended
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The Coloradoan
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DENVER -- Seven months after the governor asked the state attorney general to reopen the probe into Peggy Hettrick's murder, state investigators have yet to access the physical evidence warehoused in the case.
The delay stems from an escalating
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Seven months after the governor asked the state attorney general to reopen the probe into Peggy Hettrick's murder, state investigators have yet to access the physical evidence warehoused in the case.
The delay stems from an escalating dispute with Tim
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Denver Post
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A family heirloom may help find the person who killed Peggy Hettrick more than 20 years ago, according to the Greeley Tribune.
The newspaper is reporting that attorneys have been looking for the bracelet since 2006 to test it for DNA evidence.
Hettrick
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Gov. Bill Ritter said Friday he is open to legislation that would financially compensate Tim Masters for serving nearly a decade in prison on a murder conviction that was ultimately overturned.
Ritter made the remarks after giving a speech to the
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The Coloradoan
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Gov. Bill Ritter on Friday appointed as a district court judge a Larimer County prosecutor who, following the law, tried to permit the destruction of evidence in the Timothy Masters case.
That evidence, which was ultimately preserved, provided DNA
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The Coloradoan
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In 1987, Timothy Masters was a 15-year-old high school sophomore living with his father in a mobile home in Fort Collins, a university town on the plains east of the Rocky Mountains. A shy boy who had lost his mother four years earlier, he found solace
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Casper Star-Tribune
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GREELEY, Colorado (AP) -- His life a shambles after he was sent to prison for murder, then set free with new evidence, Timothy Masters paused to reflect on the calamitous series of events that brought him to ruin's precipice.
Tim Masters, shown in
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More than two months after a judge ordered Timothy Masters freed from a life conviction for the murder of Peggy Hettrick, there's little movement to compensate him for what many see as nearly 10 years of wrongful imprisonment.
Masters was freed Jan. 22
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The Coloradoan
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More than two months after a judge ordered Timothy Masters freed from a life conviction for the murder of Peggy Hettrick, theres little movement to compensate him for what many see as nearly 10 years of wrongful imprisonment.
Masters was freed Jan. 22
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The Coloradoan
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Tim Masters is waiting to take the witness stand at the House Judiciary Committee to testify on a HB 1351 which would not allow police departments to destroy DNA evidence from a crime.
Masters on Jan 22 was released from a nearly 10-year incarceration
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The Coloradoan
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At his own request, Fort Collins police Lt. Jim Broderick, the lead police investigator during the 1999 murder trial of Timothy Masters, has been placed on administrative leave.
Fort Collins Police Chief Dennis Harrison said the decision was unrelated
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The Coloradoan
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FORT COLLINS _ Special prosecutors have concluded police and trial prosecutors did not deliberately withhold evidence that could have helped Timothy Masters' defense in his murder trial.
Special prosecutor Don Quick, the district attorney from Adams
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Rocky Mountain News
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Special prosecutors in the Tim Masters case today laid blame for numerous evidence violations at the feet of the Fort Collins police department, asserting that detectives failed to turn over numerous documents to the attorneys who tried the case.
But
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Rocky Mountain News
http://rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/15/police-blame-masters-debacle/
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Tim Masters' former defense attorney said in a letter to the Fort Collins City Council that $10 million would be fair compensation for a man who spent nearly nine years in prison for the 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick.
Erik Fischer, who represented
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The Coloradoan
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Peggy Hettrick was slain in 1987. Tim Masters, convicted in the case, has been released.
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Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has created a hotline to field tips regarding the 1987 slaying of Peggy Hettrick, a Fort Collins
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Denver Post
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Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has established a hotline for tips about the 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick in Fort Collins.
Suthers' office recently took over the investigation of Hettrick's death — a move that came after a judge freed a man who
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— they never investigated him for Hettrick's death, according to former police officers and Long's attorney.
have dispersed or died.
The hand of murder victim
Peggy Hettrick is pictured at the
crime scene in a Fort Collins field on Feb. 11,
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— possibly belonging to the killer — were lost. And several relatives and acquaintances of suspects such as Long have dispersed or died.
into a field. Portions of one nipple and her genitalia were removed.
Peggy Hettrick's body is shown covered in a
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Fort Collins police Chief Dennis Harrison has asked special prosecutors in the Tim Masters case to compile a report on the actions of the lead police investigator before he proceeds with an internal investigation.
Masters' legal team has alleged that
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/NEWS01/802050323/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Tim Masters no longer has a burning desire to put Fort Collins squarely in his rear-view mirror.
Masters, who on Jan. 22 was released from a life prison sentence after serving almost nine years for murder, had initially planned
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Casper Star-Tribune
http://casperstartribune.net/articles/2008/02/07/news/regional/01d7b2debb94ad8b872573e500762323.txt
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A judge released Masters from prison on Jan. 22 after special prosecutors agreed DNA evidence pointed to another suspect in the 1987 fatal stabbing and mutilation of Peggy Hettrick.
Broderick is already under investigation by Weld County
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The Coloradoan
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Too many bad memories, he said the day before his release.
Fort Collins police pursued Masters as a suspect in the 1987 stabbing death of Peggy Hettrick — he was 15 when she was killed — through high school and the Navy and eventually
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080202/UPDATES01/80202012/1002/rss
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FORT COLLINS, Colorado (CNN) -- The greeting card came from a woman Tim Masters had never met. She was unemployed, she wrote, but had scrounged up what money she could because "every little bit helps."
Tim Masters, free after nearly a decade behind bars,...
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Malaysia Sun
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FORT COLLINS, Colorado (CNN) -- The greeting card came from a woman Tim Masters had never met. She was unemployed, she wrote, but had scrounged up what money she could because "every little bit helps."
Tim Masters, free after nearly a decade behind
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CNN
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The Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation is investigating whether Larimer district judges Terry Gilmore and Jolene Blair acted improperly as prosecutors during the 1999 Tim Masters trial.
The review, which OAR director John Gleason said he hopes to
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080130/NEWS01/801300319/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02
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