By  Seamus McGraw

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Alex and Molly Midyette retained lawyers, maintained silence

As the investigation into Jason Midyette's death grinds on, much of the attention has continued to focus on the infant's parents, Alex Midyette, the son of a prominent local architect and builder with extensive real estate holdings among other businesses and the grandson of famed architect J. Nold Midyette; and Molly Midyette, a young law school graduate. In the days after Jason's death, both retained lawyers, and neither has made any public comments about the case.

Nor has anyone been willing to comment on the probe for them.

Molly and Alex Midyette

Alex Midyette's attorney, Paul McCormick, did not return telephone calls from Crime Library, and Craig Truman, who was retained by Molly Midyette, said that he makes it a practice to reserve any comment for the courtroom. He did, however, insist that there was no special significance to the fact that the couple had hired separate lawyers, arguing that except under unique circumstances, Colorado law requires that each person who might be implicated in a case retain their own counsel.

The Midyette family has remained largely silent, as have the couple's friends, say local reporters who have covered the probe.

What is known is that the couple had been married just about six months when Jason was born on Dec. 17, 2005. Published reports, citing a police affidavit in support of a search warrant for the Midyette home, contend that the infant was born prematurely. The autopsy report makes no mention of that fact and the police affidavit — which was recently placed under seal, presumably because of an ongoing child protective services probe into the case, according to the Boulder County Court clerk's office — does not indicate how long before term Jason was born.

Midyette Home

One of the couple's Louisville neighbors, who sometimes chatted with Alex and Molly Midyette in the months leading up to Jason's death, told Crime Library recently that while the Midyettes seemed to be pleasant people, he did not take them for fawning parents of a newborn. In fact, he said, he did not even know they had a child until the news broke about Jason's death.

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