Lou Kilzer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Denver Post reporter and editor who spent decades uncovering corruption and misinformation, died Wednesday in Colorado Springs. He was 73.
Denver Post metro editor Tom Patterson, middle, celebrates with reporters Lou Kilzer, left and Diana Griego upon hearing news of their winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. Their 1985 series of articles titled “The Truth About Missing Children” revealed that widely accepted figures on the number of children abducted by strangers were greatly exaggerated.
A shoe-leather reporter who loved combing through records at city hall or the courthouse, Kilzer was known for a “Columbo” approach to interviews, modeling the 1970s television detective’s style of knowing far more about a topic than he let on, Kowalski said. Kilzer was staunchly devoted to the truth, introducing Kowalski and other reporters to line-by-line edits during Kilzer’s time as investigations editor.
“As low-key as he was, he had a real powerful sense of outrage at wrongdoing, and I think that motivated him,” he said. Outside of the newsroom, Kilzer could be found traveling to Costa Rica, Moscow and Seoul. He wrote two nonfiction books about World War II and co-authored a two-book mystery thriller series.Let’s just say CU Buffs guard Jaylyn Sherrod’s third foul call against Hawkeyes, Caitlin Clark was … curious
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