It has been over four months since Park County Sheriff’s Office Corporal Nate Carrigan was shot and killed by home squatter Martin Wirth, during an eviction at 36 Iris Drive in Bailey and yet the press and the public still have not been given access to the official reports of the incident.
The Flume has received numerous promises from the Colorado Bureau of Investigations and the 11th Judicial District Attorney Tom LeDoux for access to the documents. And each promise has been met with a delay.
Various pieces of the official reports have been acquired by The Flume, but all of those pieces were obtained in the way newspapers sometimes have to work, through anonymous sources, other media outlets and unofficial channels.
Except for an autopsy request, not a single other document has been fowarded to The Flume, even though the newspaper has asked the DA five times for the complete report.
The autopsy report went public because The Denver Post had to make a legal open records request.
