Comment on Wyoming man sentenced to 25 years in prison for role in Douglas County murder

Katie Langford, Denver Post
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 5:00am

Wyoming man sentenced to 25 years in prison for role in Douglas County murder

A 26-year-old Wyoming man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for his role in the 2021 kidnapping and murder of a 29-year-old woman in Douglas County. Leo Vanbuskirk pleaded guilty in May to second-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder in the death of Rachel Holeman, according to the previous reporting. Vanbuskirk was one of three people charged in connection with Holeman’s death. Holeman was first reported missing in Fort Collins in November 2021, and police tracked her last known location to Aurora. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Two men dead in shootings in Denver Sunday night, Monday morning Crime and Public Safety | Two killed in Arapahoe County murder-suicide Crime and Public Safety | Man arrested in 2023 fatal shooting in Denver’s Lowry area Crime and Public Safety | Regis University professor charged with murder in wife’s death; no charges filed in baby’s death Crime and Public Safety | Woman’s death near LoHi park, South Platte River investigated as homicide Investigators later found Holeman was in Colorado with two other people, Casey Childers and Shantel Edlund, to distribute drugs when Childers, Edlund and Vanbuskirk kidnapped her in Aurora on Nov.

 

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