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| Colo. police catch escaped killer |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/10/2003 |
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A convicted killer who escaped from prison by stowing away in a trailer was captured Thursday at a home in suburban Lakewood. Jody Aguirre, 40, did not resist arrest, Department of Corrections officials said. Aguirre, convicted of arson and murder, slipped out of the Buena Vista Correctional Facility on Wednesday in the converted horse trailer, which was hauling saddles made by inmates to the Colorado Saddlery Co. in Denver. Aguirre jumped out of the trailer and fled when it pulled up to the business, police said. Authorities said Aguirre, serving a life sentence with no chance of parole, had threatened to "get" the people who put him behind bars. Police said he had friends and family in the Denver area. Aguirre was convicted of orchestrating a September 1992 fire at a Denver print shop that killed firefighter Mark Langvardt, 39. Langvardt was the first Denver firefighter to die in the line of duty in 40 years. Aguirre owned a competing print shop in Denver. Authorities don't know how he managed the escaped from the prison 90 miles southwest of Denver. Mert Janssen, a Colorado Saddlery employee who drove the truck towing the trailer, said he checked the trailer twice before leaving. Saddlery employee Shirley Kuehn was opening the trailer door when it flew open. She said a man shoved her and told her not to say anything. |
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