Boulder police today revealed that they believe Ashley Mead, who went missing over the weekend along with her 1-year-old daughter, likely was killed in Boulder and then dismembered in Louisiana.
Investigators said they believe some of Mead’s body parts may have been discarded in the communities that suspect Adam Densmore drove through before being arrested Thursday.
They’re now asking for the public’s assistance in locating the rest of her remains, which may be in a purple suitcase.
Police on Thursday arrested Densmore, the father of Mead’s child, on suspicion of first-degree murder after he was found in Oklahoma, not far from where human remains of a female were discovered near a Walmart dumpster.
Those partial remains have now been tentatively ID’d as Mead based on observations made during an autopsy, police said.
In a news release issued today, Boulder police said they believe Mead was killed in Boulder, but then at least partially dismembered outside of Shreveport. La.
Friends of Mead told the Daily Camera that she met Densmore — who is from Louisiana — in Shreveport while going to school there several years ago.
Police said they believe Densmore left Boulder on Sunday and drove to Raton, N.M., and through the Texas panhandle before arriving in Haughton, La., on Monday. Police said he then drove through Conway, Ark., and Okmulgee, Okla. — where the partial remains were discovered Thursday — before being arrested outside Tulsa, Okla.
Police are now asking for the public’s help in locating the rest of Mead’s remains in any of the communities he passed through. Investigators believe some of the remains may be in a purple suitcase, and they released an image of similar luggage.
Densmore remains in custody in Oklahoma and is being held without bond.
Mead, 25, was reported missing in Boulder on Tuesday along with her daughter, Winter Daisy Mead.
Winter Mead was found with Densmore, and is currently with a foster family in Oklahoma.
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett and police officers were seen investigating Mead’s apartment on Manhattan Drive in Boulder on Thursday afternoon.
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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