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| April 10, 1954 Rocky Mountain News, Beat-up Store Manikin [sic] Turns into Battered Body "We didn't think it could be a body. It looked like an old, beat-up store window manikin that someone had just dumped down there." The two freshman Colorado University students who Thursday discovered the nude body of the latest Boulder Creek victim shivered in retrospect. NICE DAY "We must have passed right by the body before we saw it," said James Andes, 19, of Mackinaw, Ill., while his companion, Wayne Swanson, also 19, of Batavia, Ill., nodded in agreement. "It was such a nice day that after classes we decided to drive up to Boulder Falls. I took along my camera. "We parked up at the falls and walked around awhile. Then we decided to go down to the creek and pick up any interesting pieces of driftwood we saw." "So we went down and hopped along from one rock to another. We worked our way down east from the falls, sometimes on one bank, sometimes on the other, sometimes on rocks in the creek. "Finally we climbed back up to the road and stacked our driftwood there. We figured we'd go back, get the car, drive it down and load on the wood." "I don't know which of us saw the body first. It was just a few steps west from where we had climbed up, but down at the bottom. We must have been over on the other bank when we passed it. Otherwise we couldn't have missed it." "We stood there talking about it for a few minutes. It didn't look very lifelike-but we didn't exactly feel easy about just writing it off as a manikin. So we thought we better go down and find out." BATTERED BODY What they saw sent them scurrying for the sheriff. The battered body, partially eaten by small animals, was undoubtedly that of a nude girl. "It was a funny feeling," said Swanson. "We weren't exactly scared in the sense that we wanted to run- but I sure wished that we hadn't found the body." "But I suppose if we had just agreed it was a manikin and gone on, our consciences would have bothered us, and we would have had to come back and find out anyhow." Both boys will be leaving the campus Saturday. They'll be going back to their Illinois homes for the spring vacation, and return to their studies after Easter. |
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