By MATT HILDNER | matth@chieftain.com
DEL NORTE — Prosecutors have filed six counts of perjury against a father whose son was convicted in the 2002 death of a Monte Vista woman.
Vernon Braun, 71, made statements in 2005 under oath that he had not helped dispose the body of Danice Day.
He also said he had no knowledge of how her body had been disposed.
Prosecutors allege Braun knew those statements were false along with four others that had to do with his whereabouts, according to his June charging documents.
Day was 19 when she went missing after her shift at a Monte Vista restaurant.
Her burned and mutilated remains were found in June 2009 in a barrel at the bottom of Lyman Lake, roughly 170 miles northeast of Phoenix.
Victor Braun, who had fathered a child with Day, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in December 2009 for reckless manslaughter in connection with her death.
Vernon Braun is due back in court Oct. 4.