**Bebb-Jones is sentenced to 20 years for the murder of Sabrina. See the story to the left. RIP Sabrina!

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WICKED WESTERN SLOPE

MAYHEM, MISCHIEF, AND MURDER

IN COLORADO

The Western Slope was flush with iniquity and didn’t give two hoots about propriety.

Early promoters of Colorado’s Western Slope would have had settlers believe the area was one of proper behavior and upstanding morality. But this was not the case. Hot tempers led to quick trigger fingers and Main Street shootouts. Drinking, gambling, and thieving were popular pursuits, and law breaking of all kinds thrived in this wild land. From Charles Graham, whose jealous rampage in Grand Junction is still talked about today, and the mysterious Friday the thirteenth murder of Jeanette Morris, to Abe C. Ong, the mischievous pioneer bootlegger of De Beque, and Riverside’s Mrs. Barnes and her foul crime, “History Sleuth” D.A. Brockett reveals some of the most outrageous and remarkable crimes in Western Slope history.

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