VOLUME 53 | ISSUE 13
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
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Clear Creek County Sheriff regrets departments’ initial failures in missing person report and search
Road to top of Mount Blue Sky closed until 2026 P2
BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Mount Blue Sky summit on Aug. 23.
Friends of Idaho Springs resident Paul Peavey filed a missing person report with the Clear Creek County Sheriff ’s Office Aug. 21 after they say he had been missing for days. By Aug. 24, the disappearance was considered a homicide after Peavey’s body was discovered as part of a “privately organized search,” according to CCSO. More than a dozen locals and friends of Peavey organized and executed the search Aug. 24 after what Idaho Springs resident Gary Burke called “inaction” from the sheriff ’s department. “We found his (Peavey’s) body within the first five minutes of searching,” Burke said. He said the body was found PHOTO BY CHRIS KOEBERL
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