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Ashley Ross Draper

Case from Aurora, CO dated Sep 10, 2016

Victim Details

Ashley Ross Draper

Female

Black / African American

Aurora

CO

2016-09-10

29

Ashley

Ross Draper

07/18/2026

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In the late summer of 2016, the life of 29-year-old Ashley Noel Ross-Draper was tragically cut short in her Aurora, Colorado, apartment. On September 10, 2016, she was discovered deceased, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds. A female, Ashley was a mother to two children, who were 10 and 2 years old at the time of her death.

In the wake of the discovery of Ashley's body, her husband, James Anthony Draper, then 33, was quickly identified by law enforcement as a person of interest in h ...
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