An affidavit paints a bleak picture of the time leading up to a teen’s alcohol-related death, with the teen repeatedly expressing concerns she would die — and her mother repeatedly expressing concerns that she would go to jail.
According to the document filed in Jefferson County district court, the teen frequently told her mom, who has now been charged with second-degree murder, that she was scared. The teen was found dead on her bathroom floor of an Arvada residence March 9, and her mother, Gretchen Ryan, was charged with murder in May.
“I can’t do this. I’m so upset…. I feel like I killed her,” Ryan told detectives after her daughter was found dead, according to the affidavit…