Aurora police, with the help of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, arrested White Wednesday morning at a makeshift campsite in the Pike National Forest. He is believed to have murdered 27-year-old Jason Reichart, of Aurora. Reichart was found shot to death in his home Monday evening.
Denver Police said White told Aurora investigators about the bodies when they were interviewing him about Reichart. White told investigators they could find bodies in his hometown of Mesita, as well as near the town of La Junta and in the backyard of a home near 29th and Albion.
White told investigators he strangled two women and buried them in the backyard of the house on Albion St. in Denver.
Police worked with cadaver dogs at the home Thursday morning. The first body was discovered just before noon and the second body was found about three hours later. The women are described as Hispanic and believed to have been there since Oct. 2002 or before.
At about 11:45 this morning after our investigators were digging for about two to three hours they did locate what they believe was an Hispanic female that the suspect had earlier described, said Denver Police Det. Virginia Lopez.
Lopez said the body that was found had been placed in a black duffel bag.
White lived at the home for about one year in between 2001 and 2002.
Denver Police Chief Gerry Whitman said Park Hill residents should not be concerned about additional crimes in the neighborhood, because White is in custody.
"We've recovered two bodies. We're not going to leave until we recover all the evidence and have victims accounted for," said Chief Whitman.
The developments took a number of residents by surprise, including the family that currently lives in the home where the bodies were found. Police say the family knew White, but are not considered suspects in the murders.
Neighbors say they had normal interaction with White when he lived in the Park Hill area. They say they did not have any idea something malicious was happening.
"He seemed like a regular Joe, cordial, never would have had any suspicions that this could have happened, no, said neighbor Melanie Whitcraft.
While they didn't suspect anything, neighbors now know the origin of a terrible odor that has spread down the street for at least the past few months.
Investigators say White has given them more information, but will not say where it will take them.
"We can't talk about the details, because the suspect is probably the only one who knows anything about the details and we're not going to advertise it over TV, Chief Whitman said.
Earlier Thursday, residents in Mesita, south of Alamosa, say they saw a lot of law enforcement activity in a field half a mile from the family's general store.
White grew up in Mesita and his family currently runs a grocery store and post office there.
Sheriff's Department officials in Costilla County will not confirm whether or not they found anything after their search. They say they will be back on the scene Friday morning.
Denver Police will be working on their investigation at the house for several days and say they will not be involved in the search for other bodies outside of Denver.
Reichardt and White had been friends for little more than a year, Aurora police spokesman Rudy Herrera said.
Gary Harshfield, who hired White as a binder at his printing company last month, said White had been a good employee but stopped showing up for work about a week before the shooting.
According to court records, White's sister told police Tuesday that her brother had shot Reichardt as he tried to steal his friend's truck. She said she drove him to buy camping gear and food after he called her and told her something bad had happened.
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