{"id":21144,"date":"2020-01-27T14:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62733"},"modified":"2020-01-27T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:36:33","slug":"bodies-of-24-year-old-mom-her-son-discovered-at-rocky-mountain-national-park-in-apparent-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/bodies-of-24-year-old-mom-her-son-discovered-at-rocky-mountain-national-park-in-apparent-murder-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of 24-year-old mom, her son discovered at Rocky Mountain National Park in apparent murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/07\/Grand-Lake-Colorado-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The two bodies found Friday at Rocky Mountain National Park were identified Monday as those of a young woman and her 17-month-old son.<\/p>\n<p>On its website, the Larimer County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the deceased as Tristen Watson, 24, of Colorado Springs and her son, Christopher.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office has ruled Tristen Watson\u2019s death a suicide and her son\u2019s a homicide. Both were found Friday at Rocky Mountain National Park with gunshot wounds to the head. No other information is being released by the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, park rangers were alerted to a suicidal person who they were told was likely in the park.<\/p>\n<p>After that, they found the vehicle near Upper Beaver Meadows Road on the east side of the park, and while searching for the vehicle\u2019s occupants, discovered the two bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Park rangers conducted an on scene investigation, and the bodies were taken to the Larimer County Coroner\u2019s Office for examination.<\/p>\n<p>Assisting park rangers during the incident were Estes Park and Loveland police, the Larimer County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/bodies-of-24-year-old-mom-her-son-discovered-at-rocky-mountain-national-park-in-apparent-murder-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two bodies found Friday at Rocky Mountain National Park were identified Monday as those of a young woman and her 17-month-old son. On its website, the Larimer County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the deceased as Tristen Watson, 24, of Colorado Springs and her son, Christopher. The coroner\u2019s office has ruled Tristen Watson\u2019s death a suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 20:02:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}