Dolores Barajas was 53 and visiting family in Denver from her home in El Paso when she was attacked and stabbed to death as she walked to work on the morning of August 10, 1980. She had taken a summer job in the Fairmont Hotel cafeteria and that Sunday was to be her last day before returning home. Her body was found lying in the roadway in the 500 block of East 17th Avenue at about 7:10 a.m.

Decades later, DNA re‑examinations between 2013 and 2018 linked evidence from Dolores’s murder to three other unsolved Denver homicides from 1978–1981. Investigators identified Joe Michael Ervin as the person responsible for Dolores Barajas and the three other victims. Ervin cannot be tried; he died by suicide in 1981 while in jail after killing an Aurora police officer who was attempting to arrest him for a traffic violation.

Does anyone have memories of Dolores, her family, or that neighborhood in 1980 that could add context to her life or final day?