DENVER -- Police don't have any suspects in the slayings of five people whose bodies were found at a neighborhood bar after a fire broke out early Wednesday. Investigators believe the victims, including the bar owner, were killed before the fire and the blaze was set to cover up the slayings.
The fire at Fero's Bar & Grill was detected just before 2 a.m., closing time for bars, Firefighters found four women and one man dead inside.
The Denver medical examiner said the victims included 63-year-old Young Fero, of the Denver suburb of Aurora.
The other victims were Daria M. Pohl, 22, Kellene Fallon, 45, Ross Richter, 29, and Tereasa Beesley, 45. Pohl, Fallon and Beesley were from Denver. Richter's hometown wasn't released.
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