Vincent Darrell Groves (April 19, 1954 – October 31, 1996) was an American serial killer who murdered at least seven girls and women in Denver, Colorado, between 1978 and 1988.

His guilt was conclusively proven in four murders with the help of DNA profiling in 2012, 16 years after his death, as a result of which his total victim count remains unknown.

[2] The family lived in the western Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge, which was mainly inhabited by members of the upper middle class.

However, he quickly lost interest in studying and sports, and in 1974, due to his chronic absences, he dropped out of college and returned to Denver.

Due to his addiction, Vincent began to exhibit volatile behavior, quitting his job at the Gates Rubber Company and finding employment as a janitor with irregular working hours, from which his relationship with Janett became strained.

He insisted that the girl had died from an overdose, but the autopsy later established that Woodrum had been raped and strangled, and that there were no traces of drugs in her blood.

With the support of his father, Vincent bought a blue AMC Concord and found a job as a janitor, working both at one of the local churches and at a department store.

Washington survived the ordeal and managed to describe her assailant and his car, but couldn't give a name, thanks to which Groves avoided detection.

His car and apartments were searched, but no incriminating evidence was found against him, as a result of which he was ultimately charged only with assaulting Sheila Washington.

In a lawsuit that opened in early 1989, Groves claimed that he was acting in self-defense, after Washington stole $1,600 and tried to attack him, which was supported by the fact that she had been convicted of cocaine possession at the time.

[5] However, he did not go free, because by that time, according to results from a DNA profiling test, Groves was linked to the murders of 19-year-old Juanita Lovato, whose naked body was found in April 1988 in a rural area east of Denver, and 25-year-old Diane Mancera, whose body was found in neighboring Adams County, near the I-25 west of Denver.