Will Rhonda Coleman’s 1990 homicide be the next to be solved?  GBI says "we're closing in on him" April 30, 2026, 3:46 PM CDT By  Meghan O'Brien On July 1, 2023, the  Coleman-Baker Act  was enacted in the state of Georgia, allowing families to request that a cold case be re-examined by law enforcement. The act is, in part, named after Rhonda Sue Coleman, an 18-year-old whose body was found in a wooded area in Montgomery County, Georgia, on May 20, 1990. Rhonda Sue Coleman Dateline featured  Rhonda’s story  in our “ Cold Case Spotlight ” series in 2018. At the time, we spoke with Layla Miller Marshall, a classmate of Rhonda’s, who found her abandoned car on the side of the road in Hazlehurst, Georgia, on the evening of May 17, 1990, and called the police. “When her dad drove up was one of my most vivid memories. He was asking ‘Layla, where’s Rhonda?’ I said, ‘Mr. Coleman, I don’t know.’ And his eyes immediately filled up with water,” Layla said. “I could tel...