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Joyce Ramey

Case from Denver, CO dated Jul 04, 1979

Victim Details

Joyce Ramey

Female

Denver

CO

1979-07-04

23

Joyce

Ramey

08/09/2026

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On the evening of July 4, 1979, the holiday's celebrations were pierced by a grim discovery in an isolated area of Denver's Montbello Industrial Park District. Police responded to a report of a body and found 23-year-old Joyce Ramey on a dirt road near East 56th Avenue and Havana Street. An investigation determined that the young woman, identified as a white female, had been strangled to death. For years, the brutal crime remained a mystery, her killer evading justice and leaving a void of unans ...
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