Ricky Lee Roybal-Smith returned to the Colorado Department of Corrections last week. Since he was last there, he pleaded guilty to murdering four people – a woman who got out of a car to use a bathroom, two homeless men, and an inmate in his jail cell.
Roybal-Smith was sentenced Wednesday in the last of those court cases. He will now not be eligible for parole until 2093.
Wednesday’s sentencing was for the death of Margaret “Meg” Eberhart in June 2022. A rideshare driver called 9-1-1 from the Englewood Civic Center at 3 a.m. He stopped there, near a light rail station, after she asked to use a portable bathroom at a construction site at the Center. The driver told dispatchers he heard Eberhart scream, then saw a man that appeared to be on top of someone under a tree…