Alcalde told half-sister chilling tale in days after beating death
By John Aguilar , Daily Camera
Published January 29, 2008 at 12:30 a.m.
Ona Bayers says she regrets not telling police more about a chilling story her half-brother, Diego Olmos Alcalde, told her in the days following the 1997 murder of Susannah Chase.
It had eerie similarities to the details in Chase's beating death - including the use of a baseball bat - except the victim in her half-brother's story was a male.
"I do wish that I had given the police names, that I had given them information," Bayers said.
Bayers, 27, who was a high school student in Denver at the time, said Alcalde was drunk one night in late December 1997 when he told her he had gotten into a bar fight in Boulder, beaten a man with a baseball bat and dragged him into the woods.
She said he quickly laughed it off and claimed to be kidding. But Bayers said the story stuck with her. "That conversation was just too weird," she said Sunday.
Bayers said she called Boulder police in 1999, and again a year or so later, to ask whether there were any reports of a man who had gone missing after a bar fight. She said she told police she knew someone who could be involved.
But neither time did she give police her name nor that of her half-brother.
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