In 1981, a man fatally shot Aurora Police Officer Debra Sue Corr. DNA reveals the suspect was a serial killer.
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Denver police say they have identified a man responsible for killing three women and a 17-year-old girl in separate incidents between 1978 and 1981 by using DNA technology and genealogy to link the cold cases to a single suspect.
The man, Joe Michael Ervin, killed himself in a suburban Denver jail in 1981 while under investigation for another slaying — the shooting death of an Aurora police officer, the Denver Police Department announced Friday. The officer, Debra Sue Corr, was killed as she tried to arrest Ervin during a traffic stop when Ervin grabbed her gun and shot her.
Police identified the four other victims as 33-year-old Madeleine Furey-Livaudais, 53-year-old Dolores Barajas, 27-year-old Gwendolyn Harris and 17-year-old Antoinette Parks.
