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Burro Trail, Breckenridge, Colorado.
Coroner confirms that transient Karl Fred Kohler was killed by blunt force trauma
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — Law enforcement officials said Tuesday that they identified a homicide victim found in the woods near the popular Burro Trail on national forest land near Breckenridge as Karl Fred Kohler, 45, originally from New York.
According to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, Kohler, a transient resident of the area, was identified with the help of Colorado Bureau of investigation fingerprint records. Kohler’s body was found Sunday morning.
Undersheriff Derek Woodman said Kohler had been living in the vicinity of Breckenridge for several years and was fairly well-known by some local residents. He had been previously arrested in several locations for minor offenses, according to Woodman.
The Summit County coroner confirmed Monday that the cause of death homicide due to blunt force trauma. A full autopsy is expected to take several weeks.
The Summit County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone involved in the Breckenridge town cleanup on May 19, 2012, that was in the area around Warrior’s Mark Trail and the Burro Trail to call Detective Jared Dennis at 970.423.8907 or send and email to Jaredd@co.summit.co.us.
The coroner’s office said it’s not releasing any more details at this time “as the case is still open and active and releasing details would endanger the investigation.”
Woodman said there’s no danger to local residents.
“This isn’t like a random serial killer,” he said.
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Op-ed: Clock is running out on Heartland Institute
Hateful billboard campaign and misleading conference talks a sign of desperation among global warming deniers
The residents of Tuvalu are very concerned about global warming and sea level rise, despite the best efforts of the Heartland Institute to convince them everything is going to be OK. PHOTO BY STEFAN LINS VIA THE CREATIVE COMMONS.
By Bob Berwyn
SUMMIT COUNTY — In a bizarre convocation, oil-smeared pseudo-scientists mingled with right-wing think tankers at the Heartland Institute’s annual anti-science climate conference, an event that would be funny if there weren’t so much at stake.
The panel sessions focused on launching repeated ideological and political attacks against efforts to curb global warming. In one of the first sessions, meteorologist Joe Bastardi invoked bible verses to end his presentation, suggesting that God is in charge of the climate, and that human efforts to cut greenhouse gases are meaningless in the big picture.
The day ended with Czech President Václav Klaus charging that climate activists are “exactly like communists” in their efforts to arrange society according to their desires.
In between, speakers said not to worry about malaria because, hey, we can simply start using DDT again, and that a warming climate is good for forests and agriculture — notwithstanding clear evidence that forests around the world are under stress as temperatures rise, and that rice farmers in Asia are already seeing impacts of climate change. Read more »
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