A 1987 cold case murder of a young mom in Colorado has been linked to one of the state’s “most prolific serial killers,” who was released from prison the same year, a local sheriff’s office announced on Tuesday.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said that it had finally solved the case of Rhonda Marie Fisher, 30, who was sexually assaulted and strangled before her body was ditched on the side of a road in Sedalia, Colorado on April 1, 1987.

Officials determined, with the use of “exceptionally rare” skin cells that were originally collected 38 years ago, that Vincent Groves was responsible for Fisher’s harrowing murder.

Groves is “considered one of Colorado’s most prolific serial killers,” tied to a laundry list of murders in Colorado through the 1970s and 1980s. He was eventually capt

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