Eight victims, 4 years gone, only one trial

It took 6 days for a violent killing spree to unfold in 2008. Eight people were beaten to death. Four years later, only one trial has been held. The wait for justice continues.

It’s a good thing that Nicholas T. Sheley is a young man.

Four years after the Sterling man, then 28, was arrested on July 1, 2008, and eventually charged in the horrifically violent 6-day, two-state spree in which eight people were beaten to death, Sheley has been tried for only one of the killings.

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