From www.denverpost.com- A Denver homicide detective who investigated the November 2006 shooting death of Denver businessman J.P. Kelso told a jury that Timothy Boham called him from Arizona the day after the shooting and told him that “I did what I did.”

Detective Randall Denison told the Denver District Court jury in Boham’s first-degree murder trial that Boham just kept talking, unprompted by Denison.

“He said his girlfriend was pregnant, that he wanted to take her to the beach and had gone to Kelso’s to rob him of his money in the safe,” Denison said in response to questioning from Chief Deputy DA Bonnie Benedetti.

Denison said Boham told him he drove to Kelso’s house in the 3600 block of East Seventh Avenue early one afternoon, that Kelso got undressed and Boham put handcuffs on him.

“Did you see the marks?” Boham asked Denison about Kelso’s wrists, the detective said.

Boham, 28, is charged with first-degree murder, felony murder and aggravated robbery in the shooting of Kelso, who owned Professional Recovery Systems, a Denver collection agency.

Boham, a former gay-porn actor, had worked for Kelso, but it wasn’t known in what capacity.

Boham told police he shot Kelso in the head with a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol after a struggle about opening the safe. He said that Kelso’s eyes didn’t close after he died and that the body started making noises.

“He said it freaked him out because he’d never done anything like that before,” Denison said.

Boham said he returned to Kelso’s house several times to clean up fingerprints and other evidence, and took the safe. Expecting to find anywhere from $100,000 to $400,000, Boham told Denison he opened the safe to find only a few car titles.

After the phone conversation, Denison flew to Arizona to interview Boham, who told him he had thrown some of Kelso’s clothes, bedding and towels into Cherry Creek near East Iliff Avenue and South Quebec Street. A construction crew found them a few days later.

Boham said he hid the safe, jewelry and other items in the mountains on Rampart Range west of Sedalia. Boham consented to a DNA swab, then was arrested.

Defense attorney Amber St. Clair told the jury in opening statements that Kelso had been so depressed and despondent over the breakup of two relationships that he had committed suicide.

Much of her cross-examination of witnesses was rejected by Denver District Judge Will Hood Jr. as hearsay.

Police recovered Boham’s Chevrolet Blazer at DIA and found, amid the trash on the floorboards, Boham’s driver’s license and an unspent .40- caliber hollow-point bullet.