COLD CASES: BODIES OF 4 DENVER AREA WOMEN DISCOVERED IN WELD COUNTY

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The bodies of four Denver area women were discovered in rural Weld County between 1981 and 1992. Serial killers were on the loose around Denver at the time. 

Investigators have established no links, though two of the victims were acquainted. "These are certainly tragic cases," a Weld County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said. "I wish we could solve them soon."

Here are brief profiles:

The body of Yvonne Rabb was found on Nov. 15, 1981, in a ditch near Weld County Roads 8 and 11 outside of Dacono. Rabb, 29, a sex worker from the Five Points section of Denver, was last seen the day before walking into an alley near Big Al's Bar in Five Points.

The body of Robin Denise Nelson, 22, was discovered at Weld County Road 8 and the I-25 Frontage Road, also near Dacono on June 12, 1988. The county coroner ruled Nelson died from a drug overdose, though investigators see "suspicious circumstances surrounding her death," the sheriff's office said. 

The body Valerie Meeks, of Aurora, was found at Weld County Roads 4 and 5 just outside of Erie. Meeks was last seen alive on June 30, 1991. Her body was discovered July 17

Hunters discovered the body of Tammy Cheeks, 24, a Denver area sex worker on Nov. 14, 1992, in a concrete irrigation ditch at Weld County Roads 20 and 51, four miles northeast of Hudson. She was an acquaintance of Robin Nelson.

Serial killer Vincent Darrell Groves, who died in 1996, murdered at least seven girls and women in Denver between 1978 and 1988. His guilt was conclusively proven in four murders with the help of DNA profiling in 2012. Groves could have been responsible for more than 20 murders, police surmise.

Cold-blooded Billy Edwin Reid, 66, imprisoned at the Sterling Correctional Facility, is a suspect in the murders of at least 17 women in Denver between 1975 and 1995. Based on DNA profiling, Reid was tied to two 1989 murders.

If you have information, call the Weld County Sheriff's Office (970) 304-6464 or email Crimetips@weld.gov

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