The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a man convicted of two murders in a pipe bombing spree in the early 1990s who was granted a new trial.

James Genrich, 62, is serving a life sentence in the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Buena Vista after he was convicted of setting pipe bombs that killed Maria Delores Gonzales and Henry Ruble in a series of pipe bombings that lasted from 1989 to 1991.

Judge Richard Gurley granted Genrich a new trial in 2023, ruling that tool mark evidence used to connect Genrich to the bombs was faulty. Western Colorado

Convicted pipe bomber gets new trial

By SAM KLOMHAUS Sam.Klomhaus@gjsentinel.com

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The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld Gurley’s ruling in May.

ATF agent John O’Neil testified during Genrich’s t

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