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Tim Masters

Ex-cop recounts spy tactics

November 8, 2007

3:35 p.m. A former Fort Collins investigator testifies he isn't sure why he never documented an elaborate surveillance operation in connection with Peggy Hettrick's 1987 murder.

Murder case a real 'whodunit'

November 8, 2007

The case against Tim Masters was so close that the lead prosecutor thought he'd lost at the end of testimony and arguments, one of the man's former attorneys testified this morning.

Operation 'absurd,' cop says

November 7, 2007

A former police officer who conducted surveillance on Tim Masters in 1988 believed that an elaborate operation - which included planting a fake story in the local paper - was a ridiculous undertaking aimed at the wrong person.

Lawyer zeroes in on docs in bid to win retrial in '87 slaying

November 6, 2007

4:30 p.m. A physician who is dead and a forensic psychologist whose work helped convict Tim Masters are at the center of testimony in Fort Collins this afternoon.

Ex-prosecutors could end up testifying about murder case

November 5, 2007

Another series of hearings begins today in Fort Collins for Tim Masters, who is fighting for a new trial in one of the city's most notorious killings.

'Psychological depth charge' in '87 Ft. Collins slaying probe

November 5, 2007

Police investigators unleashed what amounted to a "psychological depth charge" on Tim Masters on the first anniversary of Peggy Hettrick's killing.

New trial request in '87 slaying hinges on host of questions

September 29, 2007

Questions swirl around the case of Tim Masters, who has spent more than nine years behind bars for a murder he has always insisted he did not commit.

Masters victim of bias, lawyer says

September 28, 2007

A former attorney for Tim Masters on Thursday accused a forensic psychologist of essentially framing him for the murder of Peggy Hettrick.

Lawyer lists wrongs in murder conviction

September 27, 2007

A plastic surgeon concluded that it would have been "almost impossible" to sexually mutilate Peggy Hettrick the way prosecutors asserted she was at Tim Masters' 1999 murder trial, but that information was never turned over to the defense.

Lawyer: Innocent man paid price for Larimer prosecutors' blunders

September 27, 2007

A forensic psychologist's 274-page book of notes analyzing the evidence in the Peggy Hettrick murder case was never turned over to lawyers for Tim Masters.

Hettrick evidence also points to doctor

September 26, 2007

Theories connecting Tim Masters to a brutal 1987 murder just as easily could have applied to a now-deceased eye doctor who killed himself after he was arrested in a sexual exploitation case.

Guilt vs. innocence rests in lone footprint, lawyer says

September 26, 2007

The only footprint tying Tim Masters to the murder of Peggy Hettrick actually supported his innocence and contradicted the prosecution's theory of the case, his former attorney testified this afternoon.

Lawyer: 3-word note could have saved client

September 25, 2007

Three words jotted in a policeman's notes — "look into Hettrick" — would have changed everything in the 1999 trial that landed Tim Masters in prison for life.

Testimony turns combative in convicted killer's bid for retrial

September 24, 2007

Tim Masters says police and prosecutors withheld information about a doctor whom he believes should have been considered a suspect in the 1987 killing and sexual mutilation of Peggy Hetrick in Fort Collins.

Push for new murder trial resumes

September 24, 2007

Tim Masters returns to court today in Fort Collins as his attorneys continue to lay the groundwork for what they hope will be a new trial in a 1987 murder he has always insisted he did not commit.