John Ify Duba

In the cold of a Colorado winter, the life of a young man came to a tragic and mysterious end. Twenty-two-year-old John Ify Maduba, a Black male, was found deceased in Aurora on January 13, 2008. His body was discovered in the 900 block of South Moline Street, where the grim reality of his death began to unfold. The Aurora Police Department immediately launched a homicide investigation into the suspicious circumstances surrounding his passing.

The story of his final days began to emerge a ...