04/05/2026
Investigators are seeking additional information in a 1980 cold case homicide that has now been linked to 29-year-old Victoria Jean Hargrove, who went missing from Alabama. More than four decades later, her identity was confirmed through forensic genetic genealogy databases, and investigators are working to determine what led to her death and how she came to California.
If you have any information — no matter how small — please come forward. Your tip could help bring long-overdue answers and justice. Click here to read more about this case: https://rivcoda.org/victoria_hargrove_cold_case