Corrye Brewer’s last ride, and a family’s search for justice

Exposure death after abandonment of 97-year-old woman in El Paso County ruled a homicide, but with no arrest a year later

What might have seemed like a routine car ride for 97-year-old Corrye Brewer would end up being her last.

On a snowy early evening in January last year, Brewer and her driver, her daughter, Michelle Gilbert, 66, motored through the rolling hills of unincorporated El Paso County, passing beneath the giant wind turbines looming over houses scattered across the open fields. Strong winds buffeted the car…

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