✝️ Faye Johnson, age 22 – January 29 1988, Denver, Colorado, USA 🇺🇸💔
Faye was from Denver. She left behind three daughters.
Faye was strangled to death, likely by serial killer Vincent Darrell Groves. She was last seen getting into a stranger`s car.
Groves was born in the family of a postman and a teacher, the eldest of three sons. The family lived in the western Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge, which was mainly inhabited by members of the upper middle class. His parents were law-abiding, average citizens who took good care of their children.
Groves attended Wheat Ridge High School, which he graduated in 1972, the only black student from his class. In 1974 he dropped out of college. He moved in with his grandmother and found a job as an electrician.
In his free time, Groves was fond of drinking alcohol and visiting the red-light districts and began leading a criminal lifestyle. At the end of 1979, Groves became addicted to drugs.
Groves is believed to have murdered up to 24 mostly prostituted women.
In the summer of 1982, he was found guilty and received a 12-year sentence. During his imprisonment, he divorced his wife, finished college and went through several programs for rehabilitation of sex offenders. On February 13, 1987, he was paroled and released from prison. Groves was convicted of the killing of Juanita Lovato in 1990, receiving life imprisonment. A month later he was charged with murdering Diane Mancera in Adams County . At the end of 1990, he was additionally convicted of her death and received 20 years imprisonment.
At the trial, prosecutors provided evidence of his involvement in eight other murders in the Denver area, using testimonies and other evidence that placed Vincent as the last person seen with the victims before they were found dead or disappeared. However, no new charges were brought against him
In the early 1990s, Vincent Groves began to have health problems. He was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and liver failure, the complications from which he died on October 31, 1996, in a prison hospital near Denver.
Shortly before his death, Groves was asked to confess to other murders, but refused.