DA moves to dismiss murder charges in 1991 Grand Junction pipe bombings that killed 2
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By Katie Langford
Published on April 11, 2026.
The Mesa County District Attorney's Office is asking a judge to dismiss murder charges against James Genrich, who was convicted of planting three pipe bombings in 1991 that killed two people. The court ruled faulty evidence was used to convict Genrich. The case was largely based on circumstantial evidence and expert testimony that indicated that the markings on the bombs were made by Genrich's tools and could not have come from other tools. Despite successfully appealing part of the case through the Innocence Project in 2023, a district court judge ruled that the expert's testimony was flawed. The DA's office and Grand Junction Police Department investigators have found no fingerprints or DNA found on evidence tested by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and another round of independent testing of bomb fragments, wires and Genrich’s tools.
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