Degan, Michael J. Medina Kimberly Greene-Medina and daughters While breathing heavily, sobbing and shaking, he recounted how in 1996 he pummeled his first wife, Kimberly Medina, with a bat, pulled her into a hole he had dug in a field east of Aurora and buried her while she gagged on dirt, according to an Alamosa County Sheriff’s Office report. This time, though, Medina told his common-law wife he would kill Degan and then himself so that she would be left to suffer, the report says. The next day, Garel told a sheriff’s deputy about Medina’s confession; Degan’s body was later found near a sewage-treatment lagoon in Monte Vista. He had drowned. That was on May 21, 2005. Medina was subsequently charged with first-degree murder but pleaded down to child abuse causing death and is currently serving a 48-year prison sentence at Buena Vista Correctional Complex. John Greene, Kimberly “Kimmy” Greene’s father, of Nampa, Idaho, said he expected in 2005 that murder charges would soon be filed against Medina in the death of his daughter. But nearly three years later, Medina has not been charged, and Aurora police still list Kimberly Medina as a missing person. Kimberly Medina’s body has never been found, said Detective Shannon Lucy, Aurora police spokeswoman. But Aurora police are actively investigating the case along with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, she said. “There have been a number of recent interviews in the last couple of months,” Lucy said. Medina originally claimed his first wife went missing while walking to a store for cigarettes with people he didn’t know. During the time Kimberly Medina disappeared and when Medina killed Degan, he had accused his wives of having affairs. But the violence had come only after the women told him they were leaving him, according to Kimberly’s family and his ex-wife. Kimberly’s aunt, Stephanie O’Bryan, said that a few days before Kimberly disappeared, she told her husband she was going to divorce him. Garel said she had moved out of her husband’s home into her own apartment about a month before he killed Degan. Garel told police she left Medina partly because he physically abused her. After she moved into another apartment in Alamosa, he snuck into her apartment, tied her up with duct tape, threatened to slash her with a box cutter and raped her while Degan cried.

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