MANITOU SPRINGS, COLO. — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a woman was found dead at a home Tuesday.

Deputies were called to the home on Waltham Avenue just before 12:30 p.m. after a man found the woman’s body.

Detectives are in the early stages of the investigation.

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They said due to the sensitive nature of the case no additional details will be released.

An autopsy has been scheduled.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 390-5555.

Drama in a Dearborn County courtroom today as a murder victim’s family has the last word before her killer receives his sentence. The sentencing of Steve Stephenson comes more than 14 months after police found 67-year-old grandmother Leigh Jennings beaten to death in her Aurora home.

Local 12’s Deborah Dixon tells us what Jennings’ family wanted Stephenson to know.

Steve Stephenson chose not to make a statement before sentencing. But Leigh Jennings’ friends and family had plenty to say. One of her sons shouted “I hope you rot in hell.” A friend of Leigh called him a monster. Jennings’ grand daughter told him he took away her son’s opportunity to learn from her grandmother like she did.

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Victoria Siebe, Granddaughter: “A lot about philosophy, she had a huge impact on my philosophy, unfortunate my son will not get the same privilege.”

Jennings’ son, Ryan Siebe, read to Stephenson from a sympathy card.

Ryan Siebe, Son: “We can honestly say we know what you’re going through, we hope you have answers, we pray for our family with sympathy the children of Bill and Peggy Stephenson.”

Bill and Peggy are Steve Stephenson’s aunt and uncle. Their murders have not been solved.

“I wanted him to understand its not just my family and friends affected. He damaged his family.”

Neighbors who found Leigh’s decomposing body talked of the bloody image of their friend they now have to live with.

Tracey Doss: Found Leigh’s Body: “Her biggest thing was, we’re only human, but I think it took a non-human act to end such a beautiful life.”

Bryan Doss, Found Leigh’s Body: “I’m glad for Ryan and Brandon I’m the one who found her.”

Stephenson didn’t react to anything that was said or to the sentence… life in prison without parole.

“This is unusual, Stephenson said in the pre-sentence report that he wanted more security, so the prosecution agreed to a maximum-security prison.”

Aaron Negangard, Dearborn County Prosecutor: “23 hours lock down, one hour rec time walking around in circle. I don’t think he understands what he requested, but I hope he gets what he requested.”

Stephenson will likely end up in the Michigan City Maximum Security Penitentiary. One relative said today it gives her comfort to know he will take his last breath in his cell.

Stephenson’s attorneys say they’ll appeal the conviction.

Police say they have a person of interest in a deadly hit and run incident in Boyle County.

Officials say Anne Duncan of Michigan was hit and killed while she was walking down Gose Pike Saturday night. The coroner says the 33-year old died of blunt force trauma.

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Danville police are now looking for witnesses who may have been on Gose Pike between 9:45 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.

Right now, no one has been charged in this case.

A dead body was found wrapped in tarp Monday evening in the middle of a neighborhood intersection, police said.

Several people saw the tarp-draped body shortly after 7:30 p.m. on the pavement at Roundrock Drive and Cindy Lane, said Damon Ing, a Saginaw police spokesman.

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Ing said the investigation is underway, and he couldn’t confirm any details about the body such as age or gender. FBI officials and Texas Rangers are on the scene as well.

But Ing said police are looking for a “vehicle of interest,” which was described as a red pickup with a softball-sized green paint splatter on the rear passenger side.