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| Teenager Gets 60 Years |
| By Denver Rocky Mountain News |
| Published: 03/22/2002 |
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Isaac Grimes, the 16-year-old whose confession one year ago this month cracked the triple slaying of a Guffey couple and their grandson, was sentenced to 60 years in prison last week. Judge Kenneth Plotz ordered Grimes to serve 40 years for second degree murder in the death of his one-time best friend, 15-year-old Tony Dutcher, and 20 years for conspiracy in the killings of Dutcher's grandparents, Carl and JoAnna Dutcher. They were slain at the grandparents' Guffey home on New Year's Eve 2001. Grimes will also be required as part of his sentencing agreement to testify against Jonathan Matheny, 18, who allegedly accompanied him on the killings, and Simon Sue, 20, the alleged ringleader who ordered the slayings. Grimes confessed last March that he slashed Tony Dutcher's throat and said Matheny shot Carl and JoAnna Dutcher with an assault rifle, all on the orders of Sue. Plotz imposed his sentence after 3 1/2 hours of statements by Dutcher family members, and testimony by a psychologist who had examined Grimes. The psychologist, Francis Barron Jr., painted Grimes as an impressionable, socially inept teen so starved for friends and companions that he fell under the influence of the older youths who befriended him, then was coerced by their threats to join in the killings. At times, Barron said, Sue had held a gun to Grimes' head and threatened to kill him. Sue also threatened to kill Grimes' family if the teen were to disobey Sue's orders, Barron said. |
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