Ronald Richards Murdered Evelyn Marie Fisher-Bamforth: Cops

Evelyn Marie Fisher-Bamforth

After more than four decades, police say they have solved a brutal cold case murder. nurse Evelyn Marie Fisher-Bamforth was found sexually assaulted and killed in her Miramar, Florida home on January 22, 1980. Although police said they had identified one person of interest, until this year they were unable to link him to the murder using improved DNA technology. according to local outlets. defendant Ronald E Richards75, locked up in an Ohio jail, Authorities reportedly said.

Miramar Police called Fisher-Bamforth’s death “the oldest cold case” in the department’s history.

It is the oldest cold case that has been solved #MiramarPD History: Evelyn Marie Fisher-Bamforth was killed on January 22, 1980. Almost 43 years later, we are pleased to announce that a grand jury has indicted Ronald E. Richards on charges of sexual assault and murder. We’re one step closer to justice for Evelyn. pic.twitter.com/zFbQQljoBQ

— Miramar Police (@MiramarPD) December 1, 2022

“They never graduate, as you can see, but surely justice is the most important thing for Evelyn,” Evelyn’s husband John Bamforth said acc WSVN.

He said he came home that day to find police tape on his front door.

“And that’s when I saw what I saw, which was torn furniture, torn pillows, and then I went back into the bedroom, at least half the bed was soaked in blood,” he reportedly said.

Police last year signaled they were on the verge of a breakthrough.

“Technology has evolved to be able to locate and track small amounts of DNA,” the Miramar police spokesman said Tanya Rues said The Chilliwack progression back then.

Richards landed on the police radar as a person of interest because he was charged with a similar crime.

“A warrant for rape and attempted murder and it was also the same MO as our case and that’s how he became an interesting person,” Detective Miramar Police John Zeller said acc WSVN.

Richards reportedly lived 12 houses from Evelyn Fisher-Bamforth and her husband at the time of the murder.

John Bamforth remembered his wife as a great person.

“The first time I saw her, I fell in love with her, you know,” he reportedly said.

[Image via Miramar Police Department]

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