Investigators around are the country are still searching for additional remains of Ashley Mead, the 25-year-old woman who police believe was killed in Boulder and dismembered outside Shreveport, La.
Mead, of Boulder, was reported missing along with her 1-year-old daughter on Feb. 14. The following day, partial remains were discovered in Okmulgee, Okla., and later were identified as Mead’s.
Police believe the rest of Mead’s remains may be in a purple suitcase discarded somewhere between Louisiana and Oklahoma.
On Tuesday, Boulder police spokeswoman Shannon Cordingly said there have been no new developments or discoveries in the case.
Police arrested Adam Densmore — Mead’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her child, Winter Daisy Mead — Thursday on suspicion of first-degree murder. Winter was found with Densmore unharmed, and is now in foster care.
Densmore, 32, is scheduled to be extradited and arrive in Boulder sometime next week, when charges will be filed, according to Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett.
Police are still asking for the public’s help in locating the rest of Mead’s remains in any of the communities Densmore passed through.
It’s believed Densmore left Boulder on Feb. 13 and drove to Raton, N.M., and through the Texas panhandle before arriving in Haughton, La., on Feb. 14.
Police said he then drove through Conway, Ark., and Okmulgee before being arrested outside Tulsa, about 40 miles from where the first remains were found.
Densmore does not have any criminal history in Colorado. He was enlisted in the U.S. Army from January 2007 to December 2009. He was deployed once to Iraq for six months in 2008, according to Army records.
While police have not commented on a possible motive, one of Mead’s friends told the Daily Camera that their relationship was tumultuous and that Mead recently had begun dating another man.
Mead and Densmore were raising their daughter together, but were no longer romantically involved, friends said.
The arrest affidavit in the case has been sealed.
Mitchell Byars: 303-473-1329, byarsm@dailycamera.com or twitter.com/mitchellbyars
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