This week, a 44-year-old college professor in Colorado was taken into custody on suspicion of killing his wife. He allegedly beat the elder woman to death and claimed she fell inside the house, which also contained their 2-month-old daughter’s body.
Authorities said that Nicholas Myklebust, an English professor at Regis University in Denver, was arrested on Monday and is being detained while they conduct an investigation into one charge of first-degree murder related to the death of his wife.
Authorities stated that they will not disclose the victims’ names until they have had enough time to inform their next of kin because of Myklebust’s familial relationship with the two victims.
Officers and emergency medical personnel responded to a 911 call at a residence in the 3200 block of North Syracuse Street on Monday at 6:52 a.m., according to a press release from the Denver Police Department. Myklebust called the emergency operator, according to the police, stating that “he found his wife on the ground bleeding and their infant daughter not breathing.”
First responders found an injured woman who looked to have multiple blunt force injuries when they arrived at the site. She was brought to a hospital, where she passed away soon after entering.
The infant daughter of Myklebust was discovered dead inside the house, according to the authorities. The infant had “no visible injuries,” according to the police.
After that, officers took Myklebust to police headquarters so that he could be questioned. While there, he reportedly tried to convince detectives that his wife’s injuries were the result of a fall.
However, investigators claimed to have discovered over the course of the inquiry that the deceased wife of the Myklebust had sustained injuries “inconsistent with a fall.”
According to the announcement, investigators also found “bruising and blood on Myklebust’s knuckles along with scratches on his neck.” He was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, based on the information that was available at the time.
To ascertain the manner and cause of death, autopsies will be conducted on the two fatalities by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
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Myklebust will be charged formally by the Denver District Attorney’s Office; any further charges that may be brought against him will be decided upon until once the Medical Examiner’s Office has finished its investigation, according to police.
The investigation is still underway, according to the authorities, and anyone with information that could help the case is encouraged to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
Myklebust served as a lecturer and instructor at the University of Texas at Austin after earning his doctorate in medieval languages and literatures.
He is a “linguist and interloper in the literatures of post-classical and medieval cultures who reconstructs prior visions of the world and the texts through which past civilizations rose to consciousness of themselves,” according to his biography from Regis University.
