The investigation into the death of University of Colorado Boulder student Megan Trussell, whose body was found in Boulder Canyon in February, could be reviewed by the state.
Courtesy of University of Colorado PoliceUniversity of Colorado student Megan Trussell. (Courtesy of University of Colorado Police)Trussell’s parents, Joe Trussell and Vanessa Diaz, submitted a request for the case to be reviewed to the Colorado Department of Public Safety and the Office of Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives on Monday, citing a 2022 law that requires the state to review certain cases involving Indigenous people.
A bill passed in 2022 created the Office of Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives with the goal of addressing the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Colorado. Indigenous people face violence at higher rates than the population at large, researchers say, and often those crimes are not properly tracked.
Among other duties, the law requires the department to review cold cases for missing Indigenous people and death investigations for cases of Indigenous people ruled as suicide or overdose under suspicious circumstances.
Diaz said Friday she hoped CBI would take up the case. She said she felt the law was “written for our exact situation.”
The departments held a meeting Thursday to determine which division would be responsible for taking the lead on the review.
As of Friday afternoon, CBI and the Trussell family did not have information on what came of the meeting or when a decision might be made.
Trussell, 18, was found dead on Feb. 15 near the 40-mile marker of Boulder Canyon Drive in “hard-to-reach” terrain. Trussell was last seen at 9 p.m. Feb. 9 while leaving her campus dorm, Hallett Hall. The Boulder County Coroner twice determined her death was a result of the toxic effects of amphetamine and exposure to a cold environment, or hypothermia and ruled the manner of her death as suicide.
Her parents have consistently disputed the official findings that she died by suicide. In August, the family circulated a petition asking the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office to reopen the investigation. The sheriff’s office said it did not plan to reopen the investigation barring new information.
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