On the evening of July 4, 1979, a body was found on a dirt road near East 56th Avenue and Havana Street in Denver’s Montbello Industrial Park District. The victim was 23-year-old Joyce Ramey, identified as a white female. An investigation determined she had been strangled to death, and the case grew cold for decades.

A later review by the Denver Police Department’s Cold Case Unit reopened the file. Advances in DNA technology linked a man named Vincent Groves, already a convicted murderer, to Ramey’s killing. The same testing connected him to three other women killed in 1979 and 1988: Emma Jenefor, Peggy Cuff, and Pamela Montgomery, establishing a pattern of violence.

Groves died in prison in 1996 while serving sentences for other killings, so there was no trial or conviction in Joyce Ramey’s case. Does anyone have information about Joyce’s life, routine, or contacts in Denver around July 1979 that could add context to what happened?