For nearly four decades, investigators in Colorado searched for the person who s**ually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver. Now, a small but carefully preserved piece of evidence — a pair of paper bags placed over the victim’s hands — has finally provided the answer: a DNA match to one of Colorado’s most notorious serial killers, officials announced Tuesday.
“Obtaining a viable DNA profile from paper bags nearly four decades old is exceptionally rare and underscores the extraordinary value of meticulous evidence preservation,” the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Rhonda Marie Fisher’s body was discovered on April 1, 1987, off a highway embankment near Sedalia, Colorado, according to the sheriff’s office. Fisher had been s**ually assaulted and strangled. She was last seen walking along a street in Denver, about 25 miles away…