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Denver liberal mom hid murdering son for years, escapes charges for accessory to murder
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Jill Clinton should be hunted down and killed for this.
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Denver authorities say they have identified a suspect in an
infamous murder that sent shock waves through the city's
Crestmore neighborhood in 1997.
Denver police named Jonathan Clinton, who died in 2003, at a
news conference Friday. The announcement is the long-awaited
breakthrough in the beating death of Surle Goldfogel, a 67-year-
old woman who was living alone two years after the death of her
husband.
"Eighteen years is a brutally long time to live with pain and
uncertainty," Goldfogel's family wrote in a public statement.
"Nearly 7,000 sunrises, countless missed weddings, births and
holidays each tainted by loss and grief that we couldn't
reconcile. The uncertainty was daunting and the senseless
brutality unimaginable."
The investigation was thwarted and ultimately solved through the
same person: Clinton's mother, according to Denver police Cmdr.
Ron Saunier.
His mother, whose name was redacted from police reports,
initially lied to detectives, telling them her son was home with
her all night, providing him with an alibi.
Years later, following Clinton's death, his mother told another
neighbor the truth about her son, and the neighbor called
police. Cold case Detective Troy Bisgard then interviewed
Clinton's mom, who admitted that her son had confessed to her
"as soon as he came back from breaking into Mrs. Goldfogel's
house," a police report says.
Goldfogel was a descendent of a Denver pioneer family who often
ran errands around town late at night. Early on the morning of
Jan. 25, 1997, Clinton broke into her house through a sliding
bathroom window while she was grocery shopping.
"Mrs. Goldfogel came home and surprised him," the police report
says. "She said he told her that he punched the victim and she
fell to the ground as he fled the scene through the garage door."
Afterward, she admitted hiding her son in area hotels to keep
detectives from speaking with him.
District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said his staff thoroughly
investigated the possibility of charging Clinton's mother with
"accessory to murder after the fact" but the statute of
limitations had passed.
"She basically derailed the investigation," Morrissey said. "She
helped this murderer not be accountable."
Clinton died of a drug overdose in 2003, Saunier said.
Clinton had ransacked Goldfogel's bedroom and took a brown
woodgrain jewelry box with a gold Star of David on the lid from
her dresser. But the killer also left behind a house full of
valuable possessions, including $8,000, jewelry worth $30,000
and a Lincoln Continental in the garage.
Goldfogel's sister found the body in a back hallway of the house
at about 4 p.m. that day.
It was a shocking crime in the Crestmoor neighborhood, which had
a low crime rate.
Police had believed there might have been a connection between
the burglary of Goldfogel's home and other break-ins at the
time. A task force of 35 detectives and officers was formed at
the time to investigate.
The crime frightened Crestmoor residents, who suspected they
were being targeted because so many elderly residents lived
there.
Authorities investigated whether there was a connection to
subsequent attacks in the neighborhood, including the beating of
82-year-old socialite Muriel Phipps with a club in her garage
Feb. 2, 1998. Phipps' husband, Gerald, had once owned the Denver
Broncos.
Goldfogel made an easy target at 4-foot-11.
Goldfogel's son, Jeffrey, previously said he always believed
that the killer had to be someone his mother knew. Otherwise, he
reasoned, there would be no motive to brutally beat her to death.
Although officers arrested 20 suspects for other crimes who fit
an FBI profile of a "short tempered" loner in his mid-20s, none
ever was linked to Goldfogel's murder. Clinton was 20 at the
time of the murder.
Surle Goldfogel's husband, Leon, who had owned Ace Mercantile
Co. and established Imperial Distribution and Craig
Distribution, died in 1995.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206, denverpost.com/coldcases or
twitter.com/kirkmitchell
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suspect-97-slaying-elderly
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Jill Clinton should be hunted down and killed for this.
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2013.jpg
Denver authorities say they have identified a suspect in an
infamous murder that sent shock waves through the city's
Crestmore neighborhood in 1997.
Denver police named Jonathan Clinton, who died in 2003, at a
news conference Friday. The announcement is the long-awaited
breakthrough in the beating death of Surle Goldfogel, a 67-year-
old woman who was living alone two years after the death of her
husband.
"Eighteen years is a brutally long time to live with pain and
uncertainty," Goldfogel's family wrote in a public statement.
"Nearly 7,000 sunrises, countless missed weddings, births and
holidays each tainted by loss and grief that we couldn't
reconcile. The uncertainty was daunting and the senseless
brutality unimaginable."
The investigation was thwarted and ultimately solved through the
same person: Clinton's mother, according to Denver police Cmdr.
Ron Saunier.
His mother, whose name was redacted from police reports,
initially lied to detectives, telling them her son was home with
her all night, providing him with an alibi.
Years later, following Clinton's death, his mother told another
neighbor the truth about her son, and the neighbor called
police. Cold case Detective Troy Bisgard then interviewed
Clinton's mom, who admitted that her son had confessed to her
"as soon as he came back from breaking into Mrs. Goldfogel's
house," a police report says.
Goldfogel was a descendent of a Denver pioneer family who often
ran errands around town late at night. Early on the morning of
Jan. 25, 1997, Clinton broke into her house through a sliding
bathroom window while she was grocery shopping.
"Mrs. Goldfogel came home and surprised him," the police report
says. "She said he told her that he punched the victim and she
fell to the ground as he fled the scene through the garage door."
Afterward, she admitted hiding her son in area hotels to keep
detectives from speaking with him.
District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said his staff thoroughly
investigated the possibility of charging Clinton's mother with
"accessory to murder after the fact" but the statute of
limitations had passed.
"She basically derailed the investigation," Morrissey said. "She
helped this murderer not be accountable."
Clinton died of a drug overdose in 2003, Saunier said.
Clinton had ransacked Goldfogel's bedroom and took a brown
woodgrain jewelry box with a gold Star of David on the lid from
her dresser. But the killer also left behind a house full of
valuable possessions, including $8,000, jewelry worth $30,000
and a Lincoln Continental in the garage.
Goldfogel's sister found the body in a back hallway of the house
at about 4 p.m. that day.
It was a shocking crime in the Crestmoor neighborhood, which had
a low crime rate.
Police had believed there might have been a connection between
the burglary of Goldfogel's home and other break-ins at the
time. A task force of 35 detectives and officers was formed at
the time to investigate.
The crime frightened Crestmoor residents, who suspected they
were being targeted because so many elderly residents lived
there.
Authorities investigated whether there was a connection to
subsequent attacks in the neighborhood, including the beating of
82-year-old socialite Muriel Phipps with a club in her garage
Feb. 2, 1998. Phipps' husband, Gerald, had once owned the Denver
Broncos.
Goldfogel made an easy target at 4-foot-11.
Goldfogel's son, Jeffrey, previously said he always believed
that the killer had to be someone his mother knew. Otherwise, he
reasoned, there would be no motive to brutally beat her to death.
Although officers arrested 20 suspects for other crimes who fit
an FBI profile of a "short tempered" loner in his mid-20s, none
ever was linked to Goldfogel's murder. Clinton was 20 at the
time of the murder.
Surle Goldfogel's husband, Leon, who had owned Ace Mercantile
Co. and established Imperial Distribution and Craig
Distribution, died in 1995.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206, denverpost.com/coldcases or
twitter.com/kirkmitchell
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