Suspicious death investigation in North Boulder results in arrest.

By Cmdr. Mike Wagner, Boulder County Sheriff’s Department.

On June 18, 2018, just before 8:00 p.m., deputies and rescue personnel were dispatched to the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park at 4475 N. Broadway in North Boulder on a report of a woman who was unconscious and was not breathing. When rescuers arrived, they found the woman in the laundry room of the mobile home park with CPR already in progress. Rescuers took over resuscitation efforts and continued to try and revive the woman as she was transported to the hospital, but to no avail. The woman, later identified by the Boulder County Coroner’s Office as Deborah Depinto, 44, was subsequently pronounced dead in the Emergency Department of Boulder Community’s Foothills Hospital.

In the ensuing investigation, Sheriff’s detectives became suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death. As a result of the on-scene investigation, interviews of witnesses, and preliminary analysis of evidence collected, Depinto’s husband, Scott Beaumont Jones, 47, was arrested and charged with domestic violence-related second-degree murder for his role in her death, earlier today. Jones is in-custody at the Boulder County Jail, without bond, and will likely make his first court appearance at the jail on June 20.

The couple, along with their two children, ages 11 and 13, had been temporarily staying in a travel-style trailer at the park and lived in the mountains of Western Boulder County. The couple’s children are currently in the care of Boulder County’s Health and Human Services Department.

The investigation into Depinto’s death remains on-going. As a result, more specific information and detail as to what transpired and led investigators to question the circumstances surrounding Depinto’s death are not yet available for public release. Medical investigators from the Coroner’s Office are working in conjunction with Sheriff’s detectives. The Coroner’s Office will conduct an autopsy to aid in determining the cause and manner of Depinto’s death.

The case number associated with this investigation is 18-3503.