DENVER – A former University of Colorado-Denver student will serve at least nine years in prison, but could serve more, for kidnapping and raping a fellow student of his after a Halloween party in 2015.

A Denver jury found John D. Kennedy, 23, guilty in June of second-degree kidnapping-victim of a sexual offense, sexual assault-victim physically helpless, sexual assault-victim incapable of appraising nature of her conduct, and unlawful sexual contact charges.

His victim, who was 23 at the time, was unconscious after a night of partying.

Kennedy waited until some of his fellow students had left a shared hallway and transferred the woman from one apartment to his own. The woman’s friends had placed her in that certain apartment to keep her safe, according to prosecutors.

A friend noticed she was missing and discovered her across the hall in Kennedy’s room. The woman wasn’t aware she’d been moved into a different apartment or sexually assaulted, and investigators got ahold of surveillance video from the hallway that showed Kennedy moving her.

When shown there was DNA evidence and witness statements against him, Kennedy confessed to raping the girl.

Colorado law mandates indeterminate sentences for people convicted of sexual assault. Kennedy could serve between 9 years and life in prison, depending on his conduct in prison and after he is paroled, should he be.

“I thank our district attorneys and our staff and the citizens of the jury who, respectively, obtained the successful conviction and returned the guilty verdict, and I commend the victim and witnesses for their courage and determination throughout this lengthy case,” Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said.  “Today’s sentence sends the message that campus sexual assault is not ‘business as usual’ and that this is a serious criminal act.”

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. – A jury on Wednesday convicted 19-year-old Tanner Flores of killing his ex-girlfriend, Ashley Doolittle, and dumping her body on the Western Slope in June 2016.

Flores faces life in prison after he was convicted on first-degree murder after deliberation, felony murder and second-degree kidnapping charges by the Larimer County. He is set to be sentenced Thursday.

The jury deliberated Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning before returning the verdict.

Flores, of Berthoud, was portrayed by prosecutors as jealous after he and Doolittle broke up during the trial. Prosecutors say he took his father’s gun, asked Doolittle to meet near Carter Lake, and shot her.

But his lawyers had argued Flores didn’t plan to kill her ahead of time.

Flores then drove her body out to near Collbran, on the Western Slope, where he dumped it. But he also told the jury that Doolittle’s murder was not premeditated.

Flores won’t face the death penalty because prosecutors didn’t declare ahead of the trial they would seek it, which is a requirement in Colorado.

He is set to be sentenced at 2 p.m. Thursday, and faces life in prison, plus additional possible time on the kidnapping conviction.

DENVER – Indiana State Troopers are in Colorado to try and find out whether the man charged with menacing people along a trail outside Colorado Springs with a hatchet is also the suspect connected to the murder of two Indiana teen girls earlier this year.

Troopers arrived in Colorado Friday to further investigate Daniel Nations, 31, who was charged Thursday with felony menacing and reckless endangerment in El Paso County in connection with multiple incidents that happened in the Mt. Herman and Monument areas over the past several weeks.

The Indiana authorities say they are working in El Paso County.

The alleged menacing happened in the same area where a well-known cyclist was found shot to death earlier this month. Nations also faces a felony weapons possession charge in Teller County, and was charged earlier this summer with presenting a false ID to an officer in Georgetown.

But Indiana officials are in the state to try and find out more about whether Nations might be a suspect in the murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams, who were killed near Delphi, Indiana while hiking in February.

An Indiana State Police spokesperson said that they would likely know by next week whether Nations is “a viable subject” in the teens’ deaths.

The agency has said that Nations is one of dozens of people they are looking at as a possible suspect.

Nations was in a Cripple Creek court Thursday on a family-related case, a day after he was in court in Teller County on the weapons charge.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it anticipates more charges will be forthcoming against Nations, though it’s unclear from which jurisdiction the charges might stem.

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Indiana authorities have set up an email address and tip line (844-459-5786) to contact them about the case, and are offering a reward of more than $200,000 for tips that lead to an arrest and conviction in the case.