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Daughter, Boyfriend Charged In Mom's Slaying
Affidavit: Lafayette Woman's Body Buried Twice Then Left In Car
POSTED: 5:01 am MST March 7, 2007
UPDATED: 5:31 pm MST March 7, 2007
LAFAYETTE, Colo. -- The daughter of a Lafayette woman found decomposing in her car was charged as an adult in connection with the crime, 7NEWS reporter Dayle Cedars said Wednesday.
Cedars, who attended the packed courtroom hearing in Boulder, also said the daughter's boyfriend was charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the slaying of Linda Damm, 52.
Her daughter, Tess Damm, 15, was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, accessory to a crime and tampering with physical evidence -- all felonies.
Her boyfriend, Bryan Grove, 17, was charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence.
The charges were read in Boulder court Tuesday morning.
Also charged was Jared Sajal Guy, 18. He was charged with being an accessory to a crime and tampering with evidence -- both felonies.
A fourth teen arrested in the case was not in court after waiving Wednesday's hearing. He is due in court on March 16 when he may be formally charged. The teen told police he knew of the attempt to bury the body but was not present, according to court documents.
All of those involved are high school students and friends packed the Boulder Justice Center courtroom to hear the charges.
According to the charging affidavit for Grove, he and Tess Damm discussed a problem with her mother and Grove asked Tess Damm if she wanted him to "get rid" of her. She told him she did, he said.
The affidavit relates a confession Grove allegedly made to police as he described the slaying of Linda Damm.
"I know what happened. I got to get this stuff off my chest," Grove said.
He told police he followed her to her bedroom after a verbal argument, got her in a choke hold and threw her on the bed after she fell unconscious, according to the affidavit.
According to the affidavit, he noticed she was still breathing so tried to suffocate her. When that didn't work, he grabbed a "Harley Davidson type knife" and plunged it into her neck, the affidavit alleges. He pushed the knife so far into her neck that he couldn't find the handle to remove it, the affidavit related. He then took a larger knife and stabbed her several times in the neck, according to the court document.
Grove said he then plunged the knife into her open mouth until she stopped breathing, according to the affidavit.
Damm said she drove around in an Acura while the killing took place, and when she arrived home, Grove told her the details.
Grove allegedly told police he thought about cutting up Damm's body to make it easy to dispose of and made a large cut in her right thigh in an attempt to cut her leg off, but gave up, his arrest affidavit said.
Damm's charging affidavit said she told police where her mother's body was when she was sitting in the back of a police car at her house.
"I want to tell you something," she is quoted as saying. "My mom is dead and is in the trunk of the car in the garage. I didn't do it."
An autopsy revealed that Damm, also known as Linda Juergens, had been dead at least a month when police found her body, according to an arrest affidavit.
The affidavit alleged that Damm's daughter and three friends were involved in trying to get rid of the decomposing corpse, first in a landfill and then by burying it in a shallow grave.
Damm's affidavit said the teens tried to dispose of the evidence by washing Grove's clothes and burning the bed sheets in the back of the house.
According to an arrest affidavit, Guy said he and Grove first took the body to the Erie landfill, but their car got stuck in the mud, so they returned to the house with the body.
The next night he, Damm and Grove took the body to Green Mountain Cemetery, the court document said, stating they "took the body to the cemetery near his school, New Vista High School, in Boulder. They found a spot next to a tree and dug a shallow grave."
"They did not bury the body deep enough, and there was a hump," Guy told police.
He said they then left because "they got spooked by someone believed to be a police officer."
After the teens left, they realized they didn't bury her well enough, so they drove back to the cemetery and dug up the corpse and put it in the back of the Subaru, the arrest affidavit said.
The decomposing body stayed in the back of Damm's Subaru station wagon, parked in her garage at 705 W. Brome Place, until authorities found it last Wednesday after receiving an anonymous tip.
Two of the arrest affidavits said the suspects planned to take the body to Wyoming to bury it after their first two attempts failed.
According to the affidavit, Guy told investigators that Damm and Grove first showed him the body stuffed in the back of the car after she was killed, and asked if he would help them dispose of the body.
Guy said before seeing the body for himself, he didn't believe Linda Damm was actually dead.
Guy said he was told that Linda Damm was drunk and trying to choke her daughter when Grove threw the woman off the girl and stabbed the woman out of self-defense. However, Guy told investigators he later learned that this story was not true.
Guy's arrest affidavit said Linda Damm had been dead for at least a month, and was not discovered by police until about three weeks after the teens tried to dispose of her body in the cemetery. The police affidavit said she died on Jan. 27 or Jan. 28.
On Wednesday, an emotional group of teenagers gathered outside the courthouse to support their friends.
"I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't support them in any way," said the suspects' friend Andrew Stygar. "It's real hard to think of them actually doing this. Bryan would never do it unless something was actually threatening Tess' life."
"I told her she could always come over to my house when she was having troubles," said Tess Damm's friend Grace Matthews. "I just wish I could have done something more for her."
The video at the link says everything that needs to be said. The links to preceeding stories at the bottom of the page make it even more clear how utterly screwed-up this BCL is.
The Arrest affidavits, everything are on this page.
Daughter, Boyfriend Charged In Mom's Slaying
Affidavit: Lafayette Woman's Body Buried Twice Then Left In Car
POSTED: 5:01 am MST March 7, 2007
UPDATED: 5:31 pm MST March 7, 2007
LAFAYETTE, Colo. -- The daughter of a Lafayette woman found decomposing in her car was charged as an adult in connection with the crime, 7NEWS reporter Dayle Cedars said Wednesday.
Cedars, who attended the packed courtroom hearing in Boulder, also said the daughter's boyfriend was charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the slaying of Linda Damm, 52.
Her daughter, Tess Damm, 15, was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, accessory to a crime and tampering with physical evidence -- all felonies.
Her boyfriend, Bryan Grove, 17, was charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence.
The charges were read in Boulder court Tuesday morning.
Also charged was Jared Sajal Guy, 18. He was charged with being an accessory to a crime and tampering with evidence -- both felonies.
A fourth teen arrested in the case was not in court after waiving Wednesday's hearing. He is due in court on March 16 when he may be formally charged. The teen told police he knew of the attempt to bury the body but was not present, according to court documents.
All of those involved are high school students and friends packed the Boulder Justice Center courtroom to hear the charges.
According to the charging affidavit for Grove, he and Tess Damm discussed a problem with her mother and Grove asked Tess Damm if she wanted him to "get rid" of her. She told him she did, he said.
The affidavit relates a confession Grove allegedly made to police as he described the slaying of Linda Damm.
"I know what happened. I got to get this stuff off my chest," Grove said.
He told police he followed her to her bedroom after a verbal argument, got her in a choke hold and threw her on the bed after she fell unconscious, according to the affidavit.
According to the affidavit, he noticed she was still breathing so tried to suffocate her. When that didn't work, he grabbed a "Harley Davidson type knife" and plunged it into her neck, the affidavit alleges. He pushed the knife so far into her neck that he couldn't find the handle to remove it, the affidavit related. He then took a larger knife and stabbed her several times in the neck, according to the court document.
Grove said he then plunged the knife into her open mouth until she stopped breathing, according to the affidavit.
Damm said she drove around in an Acura while the killing took place, and when she arrived home, Grove told her the details.
Grove allegedly told police he thought about cutting up Damm's body to make it easy to dispose of and made a large cut in her right thigh in an attempt to cut her leg off, but gave up, his arrest affidavit said.
Damm's charging affidavit said she told police where her mother's body was when she was sitting in the back of a police car at her house.
"I want to tell you something," she is quoted as saying. "My mom is dead and is in the trunk of the car in the garage. I didn't do it."
An autopsy revealed that Damm, also known as Linda Juergens, had been dead at least a month when police found her body, according to an arrest affidavit.
The affidavit alleged that Damm's daughter and three friends were involved in trying to get rid of the decomposing corpse, first in a landfill and then by burying it in a shallow grave.
Damm's affidavit said the teens tried to dispose of the evidence by washing Grove's clothes and burning the bed sheets in the back of the house.
According to an arrest affidavit, Guy said he and Grove first took the body to the Erie landfill, but their car got stuck in the mud, so they returned to the house with the body.
The next night he, Damm and Grove took the body to Green Mountain Cemetery, the court document said, stating they "took the body to the cemetery near his school, New Vista High School, in Boulder. They found a spot next to a tree and dug a shallow grave."
"They did not bury the body deep enough, and there was a hump," Guy told police.
He said they then left because "they got spooked by someone believed to be a police officer."
After the teens left, they realized they didn't bury her well enough, so they drove back to the cemetery and dug up the corpse and put it in the back of the Subaru, the arrest affidavit said.
The decomposing body stayed in the back of Damm's Subaru station wagon, parked in her garage at 705 W. Brome Place, until authorities found it last Wednesday after receiving an anonymous tip.
Two of the arrest affidavits said the suspects planned to take the body to Wyoming to bury it after their first two attempts failed.
According to the affidavit, Guy told investigators that Damm and Grove first showed him the body stuffed in the back of the car after she was killed, and asked if he would help them dispose of the body.
Guy said before seeing the body for himself, he didn't believe Linda Damm was actually dead.
Guy said he was told that Linda Damm was drunk and trying to choke her daughter when Grove threw the woman off the girl and stabbed the woman out of self-defense. However, Guy told investigators he later learned that this story was not true.
Guy's arrest affidavit said Linda Damm had been dead for at least a month, and was not discovered by police until about three weeks after the teens tried to dispose of her body in the cemetery. The police affidavit said she died on Jan. 27 or Jan. 28.
On Wednesday, an emotional group of teenagers gathered outside the courthouse to support their friends.
"I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't support them in any way," said the suspects' friend Andrew Stygar. "It's real hard to think of them actually doing this. Bryan would never do it unless something was actually threatening Tess' life."
"I told her she could always come over to my house when she was having troubles," said Tess Damm's friend Grace Matthews. "I just wish I could have done something more for her."
