{"id":23225,"date":"2025-03-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/prosecutors-to-retry-ignacio-cold-case-that-resulted-in-hung-jury-last-month\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:29:52","slug":"prosecutors-to-retry-ignacio-cold-case-that-resulted-in-hung-jury-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/prosecutors-to-retry-ignacio-cold-case-that-resulted-in-hung-jury-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors to retry Ignacio cold case that resulted in hung jury last month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Ignacio Police Department are seeking the public\u2019s help in solving the homicide of Larry Fuller, 49, who was shot and killed in Ignacio in 2009. No suspects were ever found in the cold case. (Courtesy of Colorado Bureau of Investigation)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The 6th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office will retry a case against an Arizona man suspected of shooting and killing an Ignacio man more than 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

During a status hearing on Friday, prosecutors announced their intent to proceed with a retrial after failing to reach a plea deal with Hendren\u2019s defense team.<\/p>\n

David Hendren, 39, was tried last month for the death of Larry Fuller, 49, who was fatally shot on Jan. 1, 2009.<\/p>\n

The case ended Feb. 19 in a mistrial<\/a> when jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision after nearly two days of deliberation.<\/p>\n

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Hendren<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The cold case was reopened more than two years ago after witnesses came forward almost 14 years after the investigation had stalled.<\/p>\n

The significant time gap between Fuller\u2019s death and Hendren\u2019s trial posed challenges for prosecutors while potentially strengthening the defense\u2019s case, largely due to the fading memories of witnesses.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors argued that Hendren shot Fuller after mistaking him for a man with whom Hendren\u2019s brother had fought earlier that evening at the Sidekick Lounge in downtown Ignacio.<\/p>\n

The defense said Hendren did not commit the murder and questioned the reliability of the prosecution\u2019s key witnesses, arguing that the available evidence did not support the prosecution\u2019s theory.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Durango Herald, s<\/em>hortly after the jury deadlocked, Fuller\u2019s stepson, Chris Madril, said his family wanted justice for their father.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d have to relive it all over again, sitting through another trial,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, none of us want to relive it again, but we\u2019ll do it just so that we can get \u2013 I don\u2019t even know if you call it closure \u2013 but justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 25 and is expected to last nearly two weeks.<\/p>\n

District Judge Kim Shropshire is expected to preside over the case.<\/p>\n

jbowman@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hendren, 39, accused of shooting, killing Larry Fuller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1078,133,168,28,131,1235,1231],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-6th-judicial-district","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-ignacio","tag-pine-river-times"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78025,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions\/78025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23225"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}