A gunshot echoed through an alley near Big Al's Bar in Denver's Five Points neighborhood the night of November 14, 1981, and by the next morning, Yvonn Rabb was dead. Her body turned up in a ditch near Weld County Roads 8 and 11, close to Dacono, and more than four decades later, nobody has ever been charged in her killing.
A Case That Has Sat Cold Since 1981
According to the Weld County Sheriff's Office, Rabb was a mother from Denver's Five Points neighborhood. The agency's post identifies her as 29 years old at the time of her death, and describes her case as an unresolved homicide investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff's office.
The broad strokes of what happened that night have circulated in local reporting for years. As reported by 999thepoint.com, Rabb was last seen walking into an alley near Big Al's Bar, and a witness heard a gunshot in that same alley that night. Her body was discovered the following day in the ditch near Weld County Roads 8 and 11.
Shotgun Wound, Body Dumped Near Dacono
A 2009 account from the Denver Post described the violence in stark terms: Rabb had been shot in the back of the head with a shotgun, and her body was driven to Dacono and dumped, according to the newspaper's report on Weld County's cold-case efforts. That same report put her age at 28 when her body was found, conflicting with the 29 years listed elsewhere, including a Denver Post cold-case blog entry and the sheriff's office's own anniversary post.
999thepoint.com's account adds that authorities suspect her murder was tied to a drug transaction, and that suspects were identified at some point in the investigation — but no one has ever been charged. Colorado's state cold-case files list Rabb's death as being investigated as a homicide, though that listing offers limited detail beyond the classification itself.
An Unsolved Weld County Killing
Rabb's case is among Weld County's unsolved killings.
