Thomas Carpenter

Death by Force

In the winter of 1973, on December 27th, Colorado State Trooper Thomas Carpenter, a 31-year-old white male, was on duty in Denver. A husband and father to three young children, Carpenter was a former U.S. Marine who had joined the Colorado State Patrol in 1968. He was known as a kind and calm man, always ready to lend a hand. On that fateful morning, his path crossed with two men, one white and one Black, who were with a stolen vehicle on the westbound on-ramp from Broadway to the Boulder Turnpi ...Read More