Cold-and-calculating Timothy Vialpando, 68, is serving a life sentence - with no chance of parole - for murdering a deputy sheriff at Denver General Hospital on Sept. 6, 1987.
Vialpando, then a jail inmate leg-shackled to a bed on the hospital's 7th floor, overpowered Deputy Daniel Stillwell, 25, shot him with his service revolver, took his handcuff keys - and fled with the gun.
Hospital security stopped the escape minutes later.
According to court records: "Defendant was taken to a hospital from a county jail for treatment of several self-inflicted stab wounds. At the hospital, he cut through his shackles with a hacksaw blade he had hidden in his clothing.
"When a sheriff's deputy entered defendant's hospital room, defendant attacked him. The door to the room closed when the deputy backed into it during the struggle.
"Witnesses heard two shots fired and saw defendant emerge from the room with the deputy's gun."
Today, Vialpando - whose criminal record dates back to the 1970s - is locked up at the Fremont Correctional Facility, near Canyon City. Fremont is a Level III medium-security prison.
Vialpando had been scheduled to go on trial on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, when he killed the deputy.
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