Isabella Joy Thallas had many dreams for her life.
For a high school writing assignment, Isabella once envisioned what she would accomplish by the age of sixty. She described retiring alongside her husband and two children after a long, fruitful career. She wanted to be an editor of Vogue, to volunteer at a Manhattan soup kitchen, and to work for a nonprofit helping children with vision issues access eyeglasses.
But Isabella never got the chance to do any of those things. She was murdered when she was 21, fatally shot by a stranger in broad daylight in June 2020 while walking with her boyfriend and their dog in downtown Denver…