Colorado couple suspected in crime-scene theft arrested in Washington state

Jerod Reeves

A couple from Craig suspected of pilfering the crime scene of the murder-suicide of a Denver father and son were arrested in a Spokane Valley, Wash., hotel Friday night.

Kimberly Mae McCaffery, 35, allegedly used a hacksaw to cut off two fingers of 62-year-old William Ahrold's dead, frozen hand in order to steal the pistol police believe Ahrold used to kill his 9-year-old son, Jackson.

Her boyfriend, Jerod Morris Reeves, 29, is also charged with stealing the pistol, as well as Ahrold's wallet, credit cards, iPhone and gasoline from the Ahrolds' van.

They were arrested in eastern Washington state, about 110 miles south of the Canadian border.

McCaffery and Reeves have a history of drug arrests in western

Kimberly McCaffery

Colorado. They were arrested together in Eagle County on possession of amphetamine, meth and drugmaking equipment in September. McCaffery had a court appearance scheduled last Wednesday, but she failed to appear, court records note.

On Dec. 13, the day the Ahrolds were reported missing, Reeves posted $5,000 bond in a Routt County case involving drugs and several traffic offenses.

In 2008, he lost custody of at least one child in Moffat County, records indicate. He was divorced there in 2002.

Court records also show that in 2001, Reeves was charged with kidnapping in relation to domestic violence.

The Ahrolds' bodies and van were discovered on Dec. 17 by a Bureau of Land Management employee off Grand County Road 1 near the end of Grand County Road 102, in the southwest part of the county.

The Ahrolds were last seen Dec. 9 and were reported missing to Denver police four days later.

Surveillance photos allegedly showing McCaffery and Reeves using Ahrold's credit cards put authorities on their cross-country trail last week.

Spokane Valley police said Saturday the FBI alerted their agency Friday afternoon that the couple was in the area, based on credit card use.

This eventually led officers to the Red Top Motel. Online reviews of the motel are consistently bleak, describing abandoned cars and cheap weekly rates. "All you see is prostitutes and meth users there 2 4/7," according to a review on Yahoo Travel.

KREM-TV reported Saturday afternoon that Reeves told officers he sold the gun that McCaffery cut from William Ahrold's hand.

Reeves and McCaffery face charges of tampering with physical evidence, criminal possession of a financial device for the credit-card theft, first-degree criminal trespass and abuse of a corpse and other charges.

They were being held without bail Saturday in the Spokane County Jail, awaiting extradition, according to jail records.

Their bail amounts in Grand County on their latest charges have been pre-set at $500,000, records show.

Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com

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