Pamela Montgomery was 35 when her body was found in an alley in the 1700 block of Locust/Leyden Streets in Denver in August 1988. Her death remained an unsolved homicide for decades and was one of several cold cases that puzzled investigators.

A cold case review by the Denver Police Department and the Denver District Attorney’s Office later identified Vincent Groves as a potential suspect in Montgomery’s murder and in three other unsolved homicides from 1979. DNA testing linked Groves to Montgomery’s killing, providing a forensic connection between him and the victims.

Groves died in prison in 1996 while serving time on other charges, so there was no trial on these cold-case homicides. The DNA results gave Pamela Montgomery’s family a definitive identification of who was responsible for her death.

If anyone knew Pamela or has information about her life in Denver in the 1980s, please share what you know.