Drawn to Colorado by the lure of legal marijuana, Austin Jeffrey Boutain and his wife took a bus ride to Denver from Long Beach, Calif., before launching what police allege was a month-long, two-state crime spree that left a Golden man and a Utah college student dead, Golden police records said.
Jefferson County District Attorney’s officeAustin Boutain
Boutain, who was extradited Wednesday to Jefferson County to face first-degree murder and 18 other criminal charges, allegedly confessed to killing 63-year-old Mitchell Ingle in October 2017, according to a Golden Police Department arrest affidavit.
