Detectives from the Brighton Police Department believe a pregnant woman found dead inside a car on Friday in the Denver metro area was killed by man arrested the day before following a police pursuit.
The department filed additional charges Saturday against James “Jaime” Benavidez, 50, as he sat in the Adams County Jail. Those new charges included first-degree murder, auto theft and unlawful termination of a pregnancy.
A Brighton PD spokesperson said Benavidez was known to the pregnant woman, 32-year-old Keeley Koff. Police responded Saturday morning to a report of an abandoned car on a residential street and found the woman inside. It was parked about a mile north of Koff’s current South 8th Avenue residence…