Suspect caught near border
By Kirk Mitchell
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:11/16/2006 05:54:07 PM MST
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Timothy John Boham was being sought by Denver police in connection with the murder on Monday, Nov. 13, 2006 of John Kelso. (Denver Police)
A gay porn actor wanted in the death of a wealthy business man was arrested this morning near the Mexican border in Arizona by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, officials say.
Timothy J. Boham, 25, was being sought by Denver police in the shooting death of John "JP" Kelso, founder of Professional Recovery Systems, a Denver collection agency.
Boham was captured while loitering a few feet from Mexico at the Lukeville port of entry at about 10:40 a.m., said Roger Maier, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
When he was approached by customs officers, he told them he was being sought on a first-degree murder warrant out of Denver. The officers arrested Boham and confirmed that he was a murder suspect, Maier said.
Denver detectives are making arrangements to have him returned to Denver, he said.
Boham led friends to believe he was homophobic while he was acting in gay porn movies including "Through the Woods" and "Road to Temptation," according to a gay porn website.
Boham, who worked at Kelso's company and as a professional model, was in Playgirl's campus hunks issue under the name "John," according to "Gaypornblog.com."
But Boham told a neighbor, who lived in a mansion on an apartment a floor below Boham, that he "sanitized" his apartment by thoroughly scrubbing it because a gay man had lived there previously.
Although he was gay, employees said Kelso was a conservative workaholic and philanthropist.
