Colfax Avenue

Upon returning to Denver, he began frequenting red-light districts, turning to alcohol, heavy drugs, and eventually violent crime.

Grohs primarily targeted sex workers, hitchhikers, and women suffering from substance abuse along Denver's infamous Colfax Avenue.

His signature methodology was manual strangulation, and he frequently left his victims' bodies nude or partially clothed in alleys, fields, or the mountains west of the city.

His officially linked victims include Emma Jennifer, Joyce Ramey, and Peggy Cuff, all killed in 1979, along with Tammy Sue Woodrum, Juanita Becky Lovato, and Diane Montoya Mancera, While he was definitively tied to these and a few others, including the 1987 murder of Rhonda Marie Fisher, investigators strongly believe his true victim count is much higher.

As the search for Lashaya continued, both police and her family started receiving tips that she may have been a victim of human trafficking.

Not far from the middle school where Lashaya was last seen was Colfax Avenue, an area known for sex work and drug activity, and several people came forward claiming they'd seen Lashaya there, either walking along the street or near some of the motels in the area.

Some of those tips were even more specific.

People claimed that Lashaya was being held by a man known as D, who apparently had a reputation in the area.

Well, there's only one left now over on Bellevue.

But if every s- gas station owner on a, on a four corner of Colfax Avenue got together and agreed that regular costs four twenty-nine a gallon, period, that agreement is the crime.

No other crime is required.

In antitrust, an agreement between competitors to rig the market is the whole meal right there.

No, it's, it's been, I would say it's been, like, 98% the same.

So I've al- we've always kinda, like, made little tweaks, like just around Colfax Avenue.

This year they're doing a lot of construction.

Last year there was a guy with a machete, um, you know, on Colfax chasing people around, so we were like, "Well, you know, we kinda-"