AURORA | A retired Aurora detective on the force for 41 years kept boxes of documents linked to 35 different police cases stashed under the floorboards of his home, police said.

“What we found is a detective who spent a lot of time on these cases, felt that he had the right to take bits and pieces of these cases that he committed himself to and worked through, and for whatever reason,” Chief Todd Chamberlain said. “He wanted to retain these documents.”

Police did not name the detective, saying that the case was under investigation. They also did not cite which cases the detective kept materials for.

The stash came to light earlier this year while Aurora detectives recently were looking into a cold case from 1997, Chamberlain said. While reviewing the case, they realized they were unabl

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