Devol murder trial pushed to Aug. 7

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e trial for a man accused of killing his sister and her boyfriend in rural Douglas County has been rescheduled to start in August.

Casey Devol was charged with two counts of rst-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty in September and was slated for a jury trial starting June 12.

Devol’s trial was reset to begin Aug. 7, according to the state judicial branch website.

A recording captured audio of the incident where Devol allegedly committed the murders, according to prosecutors.

“What we have are recorded statements of the murder itself which were made by one of the victims,” Andrew Steers, a chief deputy district attorney, has said.

e existence of the recorder was not known, Steers said, until the autopsy in the case that left Jessica Mitchell, 32, and Bryan Todd Gray, 34, dead in the Franktown area. ey were discovered in February 2022 in a garage adjacent to a house they lived in on Russellville Road. Mitchell was Devol’s sister.

Authorities don’t know why someone chose to record the interaction, Steers said during a March 22 hearing in Douglas County District Court.

The recording captured the