Mary Lynn Vialpando’s body was found on June 5, 1988, behind Roger’s Bar, 2520 W. Colorado Ave. Vialpando, who was married and had a 4-year-old child, was bludgeoned to death.
On the morning of her death, Vialpondo had returned home on the 2200 block of West Kiowa Street after attending a family wedding in Pueblo. As they got out of the car, Vialpondo had an argument with her husband and ran away in a westerly direction.
Witnesses said she entered Roger’s Bar between 2:30 and 3 a.m. and then left out a back door to the alley, where her body was later found. At the time, police collected evidence they believed was from the suspect.
In 2017, Colorado Springs detectives sent the DNA evidence to a phenotyping company that uses the genetic material to predict the person’s physical appearance. The company predicted the suspect’s ancestry; eye, hair and skin color, freckling and face shape.
By combining these attributes of appearance, a “snapshot” composite drawing was produced depicting what the suspect may have looked like at approximately 25 years old.