CU graduate's death mystifies authorities, devastates family

CENTENNIAL - Cyndi Graham's eyes are swollen from crying. She has numerous questions but few answers about why her son, Andrew Gleston Graham, was found dead early Friday on the front lawn of a home in Centennial.

"Please, if they know anything, to let us know . . . anything," she told The Denver Post on Saturday.

Graham's body was found in the 8700 block of East Phillips Place by a homeowner who was awakened by his barking dogs. The man and his daughter saw someone lying in the front yard, but his attempts to awaken the young man were in vain. The homeowner then called the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.

According to his family, Graham, 23, went to the Dry Creek light-rail station at Interstate 25 about 4:30 p.m. Thursday and took the train to Denver before catching an express bus to Boulder. There, he stopped to check out a four-bedroom house he was going to rent with three other men while attending graduate school starting in January. He sealed the deal on the house and was planning on moving in this weekend, his family said.

But nobody knows what happened to the 6-foot-1, 180-pound graduate of the University of Colorado engineering school after that.

For the complete story by Annette Espinoza, visit The Denver Post.