Kirk Mitchell

Kirk Mitchell is a crime reporter at The Denver Post. He has won or shared in scores of awards for his work including the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Breaking News for coverage of the Columbine massacre and the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for Breaking News for coverage of the Aurora theater shooting. He and colleagues were finalists for the Pulitzer in 2007 and 2013 for coverage of blizzards and a wildfire. Mitchell has written hundreds of blogs about unsolved murders in Colorado called Colorado Cold Cases http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/ CBS News' 48 Hours recently interviewed him about his book, The Spin Doctor: Hero or Cold Blooded killer.