From The Aspen News, Monday, May 25, 2009 CELEBRITY STAR OF “SOUL MATE” FOUND MURDERED IN ASPEN HOME ASPEN, COLORADO. Country-pop star and sometime resident Brienne Cross was found dead today along with five others in the Castle Creek-area house where she had been taping her reality show, “Soul Mate,” according to Pitkin County Sheriff [...]
From The Aspen News, Monday, May 25, 2009 CELEBRITY STAR OF “SOUL MATE” FOUND MURDERED IN ASPEN HOME ASPEN, COLORADO. Country-pop star and sometime resident Brienne Cross was found dead today along with five others in the Castle Creek-area house where she had been taping her reality show, “Soul Mate,” according to Pitkin County Sheriff [...]
By Tamara Hagethorn Reprinted with permission from Celebrity Now! Magazine. When Brienne Cross broke off her engagement with professional bull rider Cody Tiller, he became despondent and, according to at least one person who knew him, suicidal. People close to him are convinced that this depression led to his death under the hooves of the [...]
Fugitive from Justice? Walt Njorgen, The Aspen News March 8, 2010 ASPEN. Donny Lee Odell is still at large, despite law enforcement efforts to find him. “He’s probably in Canada,” said one source, who wishes to remain anonymous. “He used to live in Hayden Lake and Wellfield, and there are plenty of folks up there [...]
Arrest Warrant Issued for Donny Lee Odell – Whereabouts Unknown Walt Njorgen, The Aspen News March 6, 2010 SALIDA. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Donny Lee Odell in connection with the murders of Brienne Cross, Justin Balough, Connor Fallon, Tanya Williams, Amber Redmond, and Brendan Shayles, Sheriff David Blenman [...]
The Galena Weekly February 25, 2010 Keith Deloach ASPEN. The woman whose car was nearly wiped out by a speeding Lamborghini the night of the Aspen Massacre has come forward. I’ll call her “Pat,” because she wishes to remain anonymous. As the sole witness, Pat fears for her life. “If the person in the car [...]
According to one account, a mystery man attended the party on the night of the Aspen murders. One of the contestants, Jillian Garceau, did not make it to the Final Four, but was there. She noticed a young man talking to Nick Holloway out on the deck and asked about him, but nobody seemed to [...]
April 3, 2011 Special to the Denver Sentinel-Herald by Mounir Ayache A man hiking along Castle Creek made a grisly discovery Friday, when his dog uncovered a human femur in a pile of debris left by the 2009 flood. According to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, William Simon and his black Labrador, Harley, discovered the [...]
UPDATE: February 26, 2010: WOMAN COMES FORWARD, CLAIMS YELLOW LAMBORGHINI NEARLY WIPED HER OUT AT HIGHWAY 82 TRAFFIC CIRCLE. February 1, 2010: There is no record of a police report regarding a near-accident at the junction of 82 and Castle Creek Road on the night of May 25, 2009. The Aspen New Times publishes a [...]
Justin Balough, producer, 32 Married, one child, a three-year-old boy, Drew. Producer of Soul Mate. Formerly assistant producer for World’s Most Deadly Professions. Grew up in Port St. Joe, FL, moved to LA after high school. Graduate UCLA; screenwriter, producer, commercials and shorts, indie prod, came to attention on Short Shorts, a reality TV show [...]
In Brienne Cross’s Reality TV Show, “Soul Mate,” Compatibility is Key Reprinted with permission from the blog, Briennecross.com How do you become someone’s Best Friend Forever, after a few short weeks together in a houseful of competitors? With nineteen other people vying for the honor? Sure, there was the talent portion of the program, but [...]
From The Aspen Leaf, April 11, 2009 ASPEN, COLORADO. Real estate moguls Jerry and Claire Killian will rent out their Aspen home to Brienne Cross for her reality show, “Soul Mate,” scheduled to air on Fox this fall. “The house is perfect,” said Justin Balough of In Stride Productions, producer of “Soul Mate,” labeling the [...]
Special to The Galena Weekly, by Keith DeLoach In the spring of 2009, people from all walks of life lined up in Houston, L.A., Phoenix, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, and Chicago for a chance to be a contestant on the new reality TV show, “Soul Mate.” Most of them were young, many [...]
We have the winners of the The Shop “Who Killed Brienne Cross?” Contest. The first ten entries that correctly answered the question, “Who was the very last victim of the Aspen Murders?” each won a Kindle Edition of J. Carson Black’s Darkness on the Edge of Town. Thanks to all who entered. The winners are: [...]
Note: this article appeared a couple of months before Brienne Cross’s death. By Trent Chilcott, March 27, 2009, The Malibu Dawn Patrol, “Your Weekly Entertainment Magazine” MALIBU, CA. How much do you love salsa? Brienne Cross loves her cousin Lindy Spencer’s Sassy Salsa so much she has containers of it sent to her when she’s [...]