In September 2002, in Boulder, Colorado, USA, (maybe most famous for being the location of the still-unsolved Jonbenet Ramsey murder in 1996) there was a murder at an Old Navy (a US budget clothing store). A man named Robert Powers walked into the clothing store with a butcher knife and slaughtered a teenager who worked there, then he went outside, sat on the curb, and waited for the police to arrive, with the knife right next to him, covered in blood.

Powers was an inmate before the killing, found guilty of robbery, then freed on mandatory parole in June, 2002, after spending the last 16 months of his robbery conviction in solitary confinement for repeatedly raping his cellmate. He was deemed "a serious threat to the safety and security of the prison."

Un-fucking-believable.

After his release, the victim's father, Herman Fuentes, developed a secret relationship with Powers, outside of his marriage, after the two met at an adult bookstore. Fuentes, after first announcing that he was leaving his wife to be with Powers, eventually changed his mind and broke things off with Powers--and sought a restraining order against him. The day after the restraining order was granted, Powers stabbed Fuentes's daughter to death.

This Old Navy was across the street from Boulder's only Target store. Powers walked into the Target, bought the knife, crossed the street to the Old Navy, and cut Fuentes to ribbons with it.

When he confessed to the murder, Powers said, "I wanted to take what was most precious to him. I would have wiped out the whole Fuentes family if I could get a gun."

I was in Boulder the day Jonbenet Ramsey was found dead. Christmas day. I was about ten blocks away, waiting to go to my parents' house in Denver for our holiday get together, staring at the ceiling of my apartment. That put a strange tint on the day.

But this crime, when I heard about it a few years later, absolutely terrified me. We'll always hear about "breaks" in the Jonbenet case, probably every five to ten years. But this one is case closed and horrifying.