WEEK OF JANUARY 16, 2025
VOLUME 53 | ISSUE 32
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Murder retrial in Christian Glass case takes step forward in calling jury
Finding Beth Miller Cold case in 1983 disappearance of Idaho Springs girl getting new attention from local police
BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Idaho Springs police are reexamining every piece of evidence, witness accounts and timelines to answer one question: “What happened to Beth Miller in 1983?” Sgt. Ryan Frost of the Idaho Springs Police Department has spent hundreds of hours, by his own account, digging through records and evidence to explain why Idaho Springs resident Beth Miller went for a jog in the morning of Aug. 16, 1983 and never came back. As the Idaho Springs Police department approaches full staffing, Police Chief Nathan Buseck said he saw an opportunity and Frost’s passion to dedicate time to the endless questions still circulating around Miller’s disappearance. Buseck added that the Idaho Springs police investigation, undertaken early in 2024, has been kept “close to vest” for more than six months as investigators tried to recreate an unbiased timeline of events leading to Miller’s disappearance. “We wanted to get it to a point, where I think we are now, where it’s organized enough that now I need the public’s help,” Frost said. Miller was eventually reSEE COLD CASE, P2
14-year-old Idaho Springs resident Elisabeth Ann Miller went for a jog in August of 1983 and hasn’t been seen FILE PHOTO since. Police are asking the public for help.
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A new set of Clear Creek County jurors is expected to hear evidence in the 2022 shooting death of Christian Glass by former Clear Creek County Sheriff ’s Deputy Andrew Buen after the first trial ended with a hung jury last year. The criminal case that captured national attention is set for the spotlight again as prosecutors move forward with the retrial of a Second Degree Murder charge against Buen in Clear Creek County Court in February. Overnight on June 10-11, 2022, Christian Glass, 22, called 911 for help, saying he was trapped in his car. When officers arrived, they asked him to leave his vehicle. He refused in what turned into a long standoff that ended when officers broke his car window and used a Taser on him, according to public reports. Buen then shot Glass five times through the windshield, killing him, according to an indictment. After eight days of testimony and twoand-a-half days of deliberation during the April 2024 trial, a Clear Creek County jury found Buen guilty of reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, in the shooting death of 22-year-old Christian Glass. However, jurors were unable to reach a decision on the second-degree murder and official misconduct charges. During a pre-trial conference on Jan. 6 in Clear Creek County, Colorado 5th Circuit Judge Catherine Cheroutes addressed the logistics of the retrial with Buen’s defense attorneys and prosecutors. All parties agreed to another pre-trial hearing for Jan. 21 to sort motions, jury selection and voir dire. Voir dire is a process in which prosecutors and defense attorneys
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