ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — An inmate awaiting trial in an Arapahoe County cold case homicide has died, according to authorities.

Robert Williams, 70, was suffering from a chronic illness when he was arrested in 2017, according to a news release from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. He was receiving end-of-life care in the week before he died late Saturday, Aug. 18.

Williams was arrested on Aug. 17, 2017, on suspicion of killing Rebecca Bartee. Bartee, a deputy district attorney, was found dead in her apartment on June 7, 1999. Williams and Bartee lived in the same apartment building at the time, and Williams still resided there when he was arrested.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office is not seeking any other suspects and Rebecca Bartee’s homicide case has now been closed.

Bartee, who was 41 at the time of her death, was formerly of Hays and worked as a prosecutor in Hays.

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