Rhonda Marie Fisher, 30, was found dead on April 1, 1987, in an embankment along South Perry Park Road, south of Sedalia in Douglas County, Colorado. A passing motorist discovered her body; investigators determined she had been sexually assaulted and strangled. She had last been seen alive the night before, March 31, 1987, walking north on Monaco towards Leetsdale in Denver, and had been staying with various acquaintances in the weeks before her death.

The original investigation faced challenges because Fisher’s transient lifestyle left few firm leads. One acquaintance was briefly a person of interest but was later cleared. Detectives reviewed possible connections to several serial offenders active in the Denver area across the 1970s–90s, and evidence submitted for DNA testing in 2017 did not yield complete profiles.

A cold case review in early 2025 led investigators to resubmit preserved items for new DNA analysis. In late October 2025, DNA recovered from paper bags that had been placed over Fisher’s hands matched Vincent Darrell Groves, a man linked to multiple homicides who died in prison in 1996, identifying him as Fisher’s killer after 38 years. Did anyone who knew Rhonda or saw her in late March 1987 notice anything that might add context to her movements or contacts?