Bomb-making materials found in Colo. suspect's car

Bomb-making materials found in Colo. suspect's car

By ANGELA K. BROWN and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Associated Press - 4 hrs ago

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DECATUR, Texas (AP) - Investigators found bomb-making materials and pants

that appeared to have blood on them in the car of a man suspected of killing

Colorado's prisons chief, according to documents made public Tuesday.

 

Authorities also found maps, handwritten directions and documents from the

Department of Corrections in Evan Spencer Ebel's black Cadillac. Also found

were a Domino's Pizza worker's shirt and visor, and a pizza carrier bag

along with zip ties and duct tape.

 

Ebel was killed in a shootout with Texas authorities last week after a

high-speed chase.

 

Authorities in Decatur, where Ebel's car crashed before the shootout, sent

the items they found to Colorado agencies investigating the death of

corrections chief Tom Clements and the slaying of a pizza deliveryman whose

body was found two days before Clements was killed.

 

Investigators haven't released a motive or commented on Ebel's ties to a

white supremacist prison gang. The documents from Texas authorities

detailing what they found in Ebel's car are not specific enough to shed

additional light on the matter.

 

But Capt. Kevin Benton of the Wise County Sheriff's Office in Decatur said

the handwritten directions that were found would be useful to Colorado

authorities' investigation. He didn't elaborate.

 

Also in the car were black powder, a surveillance system, a digital voice

recorder, and handwritten documents and letters, according to the documents.

 

Colorado investigators refused to discuss the evidence.

 

"We don't want to speak about their relevancy or what they might mean to our

investigation," said Sgt. Joe Roybal, spokesman for the El Paso County

Sheriff's Office.

 

A week after Clements died after opening his front door, investigators were

still trying to determine Ebel's role in the slayings and whether others

were involved. El Paso County authorities said they were able to match the

gun Ebel used in the Texas shootout to the one used in Clements' slaying

through microscopic marks left on the shell casings.

 

Authorities in Denver have said they're confident that Ebel is linked to the

slaying of pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, 28, a married father of two,

but they have not said whether they've also been able to link the gun found

in Texas to Leon's slaying.

 

 

Investigators are trying to determine whether Leon's slaying was to procure

a pizza box and Domino's Pizza uniform to help persuade Clements to open his

front door, El Paso County authorities said.

 

In Texas, authorities were trying to find out why Ebel was there and where

he was going. After discovering bomb-making materials in his car, a Wise

County detective was assigned to help the Texas Rangers investigating the

case, Benton said.

 

"Everybody wants to know where he was headed to and why," he said.

 

A deputy in nearby Montague County who was shot by Ebel during a traffic

stop before the March 21 chase was released from the hospital Tuesday and

moved to a rehabilitation facility to recover from a severe concussion.

 

Clements' funeral was Sunday, and hundreds of law enforcement officers,

corrections workers, lawmakers and state dignitaries attended a memorial

service for him Monday. Clements was remembered as a prison system reformer

with a strong belief in redemption and who worked to reduce the use of

solitary confinement in Colorado prisons.

 

Lisa Clements said at the memorial that her husband of 28 years would want

justice as well as forgiveness.

 

Ebel is the son of Hickenlooper's longtime friend, attorney Jack Ebel. Evan

Ebel was on the governor's mind when he spoke to Clements before offering

him the prisons job, citing the younger Ebel's prison sentence in solitary

confinement as an example of needed prison reform.

 

Hickenlooper has said he did not mention Evan Ebel by name in that

conversation, and there was no indication that his relationship with Jack

Ebel played a role in the shooting. Hickenlooper also said he did not having

any role in Evan Ebel's parole in January.

 

Evan Ebel's time in prison included solitary confinement, which his father

testified to lawmakers two years ago was destroying his son's psyche. While

in prison, Ebel was a member of the 211 Crew, a white supremacist prison

gang in Colorado, according to law enforcement officials.

 

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