From left: Jaime Moore, Cody Hobirk and Ashley Provine were convicted for their roles in the death of Alexis Baca, who was found dead on the side of Flagstaff Mountain near Boulder, Colorado, in July 2022. (Moore, Hobirk phots via Dona Ana County; Provine via Colorado Department of Corrections)
A jury convicted a man who, along with three other people, killed a woman and dumped her body in the Colorado mountains and then stole her cash and drugs.
Jaime Moore, 32, was found guilty on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated robbery, tampering with a deceased body and tampering with physical evidence, according to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office. He was the final of four defendants who were convicted in the murder of 25-year-old Alexis Alyssa Baca.
“This guilty verdict reflects that this defendant carried out a premeditated, coldblooded murder on Flagstaff,” District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in a statement. “After shooting the victim in the head, this defendant and his accomplices took significant steps to leave Boulder and cover their tracks in order to get away with murder. However, the exhaustive investigation by the Sheriff’s Office uncovered their involvement and the specific role of each person. The prosecution team has worked incredibly hard to secure justice for this victim and her family; I hope this verdict will provide her grieving family with some answers and comfort — although they will live every day with the tremendous loss caused by this defendant.”
A hiker found Baca dead on July 25, 2022, on the Realization Point trailhead on Flagstaff Mountain outside Boulder. She had blood on her face, cigarette burns throughout her body and had been shot in the back of the head, a probable cause arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime said. She also wore a grim reaper-shaped pendant around her neck.
Detectives identified Baca through her fingerprints and learned she lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico. They also discovered that she had been involved in a traffic stop with a man about five days before her body was located. During that traffic stop, authorities in Morgan County, Colorado, took a man into custody because of outstanding warrants. The man — whose name was redacted from the document — told detectives he and Baca were driving up to Montana so he could buy a motorcycle. He brought about $20,000 in cash along with two Glock handguns.
After his arrest, the man told Baca to keep his car and stay around the area so they could resume their trip after he bonded out of jail. Detectives found surveillance video of Baca driving around the Boulder area in the days that followed. They also saw a Ford F-250 that appeared to be following Baca’s car. The F-250 was registered to Moore, who also lived in Las Cruces.
Investigators also talked with Baca’s mother, who told them her daughter called on July 23, 2022, to say she was “stuck in Colorado,” the affidavit said. Baca apparently called Moore, who was a friend, and asked him to come up to Colorado to help her get back to New Mexico. Moore, his fiancee Ashley Provine, along with Cody Hobirk and his girlfriend Elizabeth Griffin drove up to Colorado and met Baca at a hotel in Fort Morgan.
Hobirk, 45, testified against Moore at the trial that once at the hotel Moore started talking about robbing Baca, according to the Daily Camera.
“(Moore) said ‘Cody, I’m sick of this chick, she’s messed up a lot of things and I’m going to shoot her,’” Hobirk reportedly testified.
The group drove to Realization Point in their separate cars and after Provine and Griffin went for a walk, Moore told Hobirk to make sure Baca was unarmed.
“He walked around Alexis’ car. When we had stopped to get pills he had told me to make sure she didn’t have a gun, and to grab her purse. He says ‘Get out or eat lead’. Alexis stepped out of the car and then she screamed, threw her hands up and he shot her,” Hobirk reportedly said.
Hobirk testified he and Moore dragged Baca’s body into a wooded area off the parking lot and later disposed of her vehicle.
According to the affidavit, Moore claimed that Baca shot at him first so he shot her in self-defense. They then took about $6,000 in cash, 5,000 pills and two laptops, Moore told investigators. Moore told the cops the quartet disposed of Baca’s personal items throughout their trip back to New Mexico.
Cops arrested all four in New Mexico and later extradited them to Colorado.
Colorado Department of Corrections records show Provine, 19, was sentenced to four years in prison for pleading guilty to accessory after the fact. The Daily Camera reports Hobirk pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and faces up to 32 years in prison at his sentencing in January, while Griffin received four years probation for tampering with evidence.
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