Cold-and-calculating Timothy Vialpando ambushed and murdered a deputy sheriff at Denver General Hospital.
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 on Sept. 6, 1987.
Vialpando "was taken to a hospital from a county jail for treatment of several self-inflicted stab wounds," court records said. "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."
Vialpando (pictured above in 2026) was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He had been scheduled to go on trial for sexual assault when he killed the deputy.
[Photo: Colorado Department of Corrections]
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