9NEWS investigation of Vinchenzo Moscoso parole [Video]

A 9NEWS investigation found the state failed to assess a parolee for more than a year before the stabbing deaths of two people in Denver.

DENVER — More than a year before Denver Police say a parolee named Vinchenzo Moscoso stabbed and killed two strangers in northwest Denver in 2023, Moscoso turned up outside a home on North Shoshone Street on a snowy and cold February day.

Dressed in short sleeves and coated with snow, Moscoso told officers he believed a girl was being sexually assaulted inside the home. The story was not true.

Body camera videos obtained by 9NEWS suggest Moscoso was spiraling that day in 2022.

“I smoked some blues,” he told a police officer.

He went to jail for a few weeks for criminal trespassing.

Months later, Moscoso’s parole officer grew increasingly frustrated with her inability to get him to return her phone calls.

“It should not take threats of a warrant for [Moscoso] to call,” she …