LAFAYETTE - It's been two weeks since neighbors can recall seeing Linda Juergens.

But the activity at the 52-year- old mother's home in the 700 block of West Brome Place had certainly caught their attention.

The music grew louder and the behavior became more raucous in the past 14 days, according to several residents of the block, who expressed dismay Thursday at the possibility that Juergens' daughter and friends partied while a woman lay dead inside.

A day after the gruesome discovery, police remained tightlipped about the apparent homicide. Authorities have not released the name of the victim or the suspects - three teenagers who were taken into custody Wednesday.

But a source close to the investigation told the Daily Camera in Boulder that the suspects include Juergens' 16-year-old daughter, who lived in the home, and the girl's 17-year-old boyfriend.

The Rocky Mountain News is not naming the teens because they are juveniles. Prosecutors will decide later whether to charge the suspects as adults.

A court hearing for the three is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. today.

On Thursday, coroner Thomas Faure said he is trying to confirm the woman's identity. The victim, believed to be 52, had been stabbed multiple times in the neck.

Property records show the home is listed to Juergens. Other records indicate she has also used the name Linda Damm.

As officials with Lafayette Police and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation carried possible evidence from the house, neighbors said the relationship between mother and daughter had been troubled.

Steve Weddig, who lives across the street, remembered hearing Juergens' daughter screaming at her mom a few weeks ago. "I thought it was normal teen angst," he said.

The girl baby-sat for Weddig's child last summer, but after he found out that she had invited her boyfriend over during the assignment, he told her she couldn't continue, he said.

Linda Juergens had always been pleasant, if a little downbeat, and always happy to water their plants when the Weddigs took a vacation, he said.

Juergens once came over in tears, saying, "I can't handle this," referring to strains in her relationship with her daughter, Wedding said. "Linda told me she was having problems with her daughter. I used to hear (the teenager) screaming, 'I hate you.' "

Linda Juergens had gotten a black Acura for her daughter, but the girl's boyfriend drove it more than she did, Weddig said.

Tim James, who lives about five houses away, heard screaming coming from the Juergens home for a good half-hour Monday, then saw a strange sight.

"I heard all this screaming going on, and I saw this guy on the hood of this black car, with a teenage girl driving," he said.

The driver stopped so suddenly at the stop sign that "the guy almost slid off," he said.

The mother and daughter moved to the neighborhood in 2001. "She was a sweet young girl, small and shy," Weddig recalled of the daughter, who was 10 at the time.

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