Podcasts by BLAME
BLAME is a true-crime, investigative series by 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado. Learn more at 9news.com/blame.
Season 2, "BLAME: Lost at Home," is a mystery about a man who was found more than a year after he was reported missing, dead in his own home.
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I Would Like to Fight my Extradition | Chapter 11 from 2021-07-23T19:38:37
A DNA hit led quickly to formal charges against Alex Christopher Ewing in two notorious Colorado murder cases. But with crimes dating back to the 1980s, in the midst of a pandemic, getting him in f...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 10: Swift Justice from 2020-10-30T11:00
Alex Christopher Ewing finally faces a jury – and leaves an indelible memory on the woman beaten with a weathered ax handle and the prosecutor who tried him for escape, burglary and attempted murde...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 9: A Stone-Cold Stare from 2020-10-30T11:00
Park Ranger Mike Meyer patrolled the not-so-tranquil waters of Lake Mead during the go-go ‘80s, a time of cocaine, powerboats and mob hits. But his biggest bust came the day he crossed paths with A...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 8: Trouble on Racetrack Road from 2020-10-30T11:00
Nancy Barry heard her baby cry, jumped up to fix a bottle, and walked into her kitchen to find a shirtless man carrying a club. The man savagely beat her and her husband – then vanished into the de...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 7: Escape from 2020-10-30T11:00
In 1984, Henderson was a sleepy bedroom community of fewer than 30,000 people 15 miles from the Las Vegas strip. It was seldom in the news. That changed the night a suspect in a middle-of-the-night...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 6: Kingman from 2020-10-30T11:00
It was the early morning of Jan. 27, 1984. A 25-pound rock slammed into Roy Williams, jolting him awake, cracking a rib and tearing open a gash in his head that would require 85 stitches. Just as f...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 5: The Answer? from 2019-12-18T12:00
A legal opinion from Nevada’s attorney general finally caught up with a man who’d been behind bars there for decades. Suddenly, there was a flurry of activity in Colorado – all of it kept under wra...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 4: The Hunt from 2019-12-11T12:00
The murders of three members of the Bennett family — and, to a lesser degree, the killing of Patricia Smith — got lots of attention. But they weren’t the first hammer attacks in the area. Before th...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 3: In the Shadows from 2019-12-04T12:00
She knew something was wrong when she arrived at the bus stop after work and her mother wasn’t there waiting for her. After catching a ride home with a cousin, she crept to the front door of her da...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 2: Twelve Days from 2019-11-27T12:00
After a middle-of-the-night hammer attack left three members of one family dead, anxiety spread through the Denver area — homeowners questioned utility workers in their yards, teachers answered dif...
ListenThe Fear All These Years | Chapter 1: Haunted from 2019-11-20T11:00
Two women are bound together by family ties –- and by an attack that made no sense when it happened. It still makes no sense, and yet they’re similarly pulled apart by the fallout they’ve lived wit...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 10 - The End from 2019-03-07T20:49
In this final episode, Jeremy returns to where this series began – Chuck’s home. There, he learns what’s next for the property as a man in an excavator begins to tear down the last remaining piece ...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 9 - Tracking Down Mystery Mike from 2018-06-21T21:37
Who was that stranger who came to Chuck’s family with a warning about their father? “Mystery Mike,” as Jeremy Jojola calls him, prompted Chuck’s sons to start searching for their father a year befo...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 8 - Hoarding: The Hidden Epidemic from 2018-06-12T18:53
Compulsive hoarding affects a surprisingly large number of people in the United States. To better understand this disorder, Jeremy sits down with Cory Chalmers, an expert who appears on the A&E sh...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 7 - Paralysis by Analysis from 2018-06-06T16:59
Jeremy uncovers the original 911 call made by a neighbor 383 days before Chuck was found in his living room. Prophetic words as she warns the city Chuck may dead in his home. However, it took poli...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 6 - What Did Police Do? from 2018-05-29T22:59
Finally, police are going on the record to talk about Chuck Frary. Chuck’s remains sat in his home for more than a year even though police visited his house six times during that period. For weeks ...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 5 - Chuck's Kids Reveal So Much from 2018-05-23T22:43
Chuck’s children were a bit reluctant to talk about their father, but after some convincing, Jeremy was able to get all four of them together. They reveal what they did when they first realized Ch...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 4 - The Autopsy Report from 2018-05-16T22:48
So much about life can be revealed by examining death. As macabre and disturbing as autopsy reports can be, they are often loaded with crucial details about a person’s life. After waiting for weeks...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 3 - Chuck’s Son from 2018-05-16T21:11
Jeremy tracks down one of Chuck’s sons and learns a little about Chuck’s life and what the family experienced when they first realized their father was missing. Many initial questions are answered ...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 2 - The Neighbor Knows from 2018-05-16T21:09
Every neighborhood has that one homeowner who knows what’s happening on the street. Jeremy sits down with Kristi Petersen who lives two doors down from Chuck. She describes what she witnessed throu...
ListenBLAME: Lost At Home Episode 1 - Chuck’s Home from 2018-05-16T21:07
Follow Jeremy Jojola along as he first learns about Chuck Frary’s story with a visit to a house in a trendy Denver neighborhood. Jeremy takes us to the corner of W 50th Ave and Tennyson where he fi...
ListenIntro - BLAME: Lost at Home from 2018-05-02T20:39
Kevin Vaughan, the reporter behind the original BLAME series and Jeremy Jojola sit down and talk about what we can expect to hear in BLAME: Lost at Home
ListenEpisode 14: We've Been Waiting A Long Time For This from 2017-05-22T17:36
It's been three months since we wrapped up an in-depth look at the 2001 shooting death of Jill Wells, a killing her husband blamed on the couple's six-year-old son. Now, there's an update -- one pu...
ListenEpisode 13: Dreams and Developments from 2017-02-10T23:13
Nearly a year after 9NEWS began investigating the shooting death of Jill Wells, the potential for new developments is real. Various public officials are discussing what steps they ought to take – i...
ListenEpisode 12: What We Think Happened Is Almost Never What Happened from 2016-12-21T16:42
At the center of the pursuit of the truth about the death of Jill Wells stands her son, Tanner. He is the only one who knows what he thinks about this pursuit, who knows what he has thought about ...
ListenEpisode 11: An Immediate Kill from 2016-12-14T17:54
Everyone who has looked into Jill’s death has a theory on the case – and on the role her husband, Mike Wells, may have played in an incident that remains shrouded in mystery. For some, the suspicio...
ListenEpisode 10: You Don't Have to be a Doctor to be a Coroner? from 2016-12-07T00:09
In Colorado, anyone can hold the job of county coroner – you don’t need a medical degree or any special work experience. Just as the family of Jill Wells found out how crucial the coroner can be in...
ListenEpisode 9 The Aha Moment from 2016-11-30T17:25
In every report, every interview about Jill Wells death, her husband said she was prone on the ground, target shooting with her left index finger on the trigger. First responders to the scene say t...
ListenThanksgiving Minisode from 2016-11-22T22:54
Eight Episodes into BLAME and we a hearing a lot of feedback from people connected to the case. We want to hear from you too. Who should we be interviewing? Where should we look next? Have we mis...
ListenEpisode 8: No one's Gonna Charge a 6-year-old from 2016-11-16T19:09
If Tanner Wells is to believe he didn’t shoot and kill his mother, he needs to wrap his brain around the fact his own father may be to BLAME. We needed to know if what we were uncovering would be d...
ListenEpisode 7: For Better or Worse from 2016-11-09T16:28
“She was so positive, and that’s why we never knew anything was going wrong” To understand everything that was going on prior to Jill Well’s death her friends say you need to know about who she...
ListenEpisode 6: The Ultimate Question from 2016-11-02T15:09
They say hindsight is always 20/20. But in this case hindsight could mean the difference between an accident and murder. Years after her death, Jill Well’s sister convinced a new investigator to l...
ListenEpisode 5: I'm calling about the Jill Wells case from 2016-10-26T19:06
The three people who accepted Mike Wells account of how his wife Jill died, reflect on the investigation that they left behind 15 years ago. What do they remember about that day? Did they question ...
ListenEpisode 4: He Blew That One from 2016-10-19T15:28
What did investigators really know the day Jill Wells died? Did they know enough to definitively put the blame on a 6-year-old boy? We pull the one box of evidence off the shelf of the Lincoln Coun...
ListenEpisode 3: An Exorbitant Amount of Life Insurance from 2016-10-13T17:28
No fingerprints, no ballistics, no autopsy. And now, 9Wants to Know uncovers several life insurance policies, one taken out just before the shooting. Jill Wells sisters have been asking questions a...
ListenEpisode 2: Nobody Investigated It from 2016-10-07T20:14
An unintelligible start to a 911 call begins the short and incomplete investigation of the death of Jill Wells. There are very few official records created in the case. A two-page police report. C...
ListenEpisode 1: Accident or Murder from 2016-10-03T21:10
Less than 24-hours after Jill Well’s death, the case into her shooting was closed. No one performed an autopsy, no ballistics testing was done and no one conducted formal interviews of the last thr...
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