Missing
Norma Jean Halford
Halford, approximately 1979; Vincent Groves, approximately 1996
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/24/1979
Missing location (approx) :
Georgetown, Colorado
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 02/21/1958 (63)
Age at the time of disappearance: 21 years old
Height / Weight : 5'5, 105 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, hazel eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Halford was last seen in Georgetown, Colorado on August 24, 1979, two days after her vehicle was found abandoned six and a half miles up Guanella Pass Road and tagged by the state patrol. She has never been heard from again.
Halford lived with Vincent Darrell Groves at the time of her disappearance. A photo of him is posted with this case summary.
Groves associated with pimps and prostitutes and provided them with cocaine. He was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1981 death of a 17-year-old girl and sentenced to twelve years in prison, but he was released in 1987. In 1990, he was convicted in two other women's murders and sentenced to life in prison.
Groves died in 1996, at the Age at the time of disappearance: of 42. DNA testing conducted after his death tied him to several further deaths. Authorities believe he could have been responsible for as many as twenty-four murders between 1978 and 1989, most of them in the Denver area.
Halford's was the only case tied to him where the body was never found. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance due to the circumstances involved.
Other information and links : ncy
Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office
303-569-3232
September 2021 updates and sources
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
The Doe Network
5280: The Denver Magazine
The Rocky Mountain News
Westword
October 12, 2004. April 19, 2016; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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