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| April 13, 1954 Denver Post, Slain Girl's Clothing Sought The identity of the blond girl whose nude, battered body was found in Boulder Canyon five days ago remained as much a mystery Tuesday as the day the body was discovered. Sheriff Art Everson of Boulder county admitted he and his deputies had run into a blank wall in every effort to learn who the girl was and who killed her. He said a wider search was being made for the clothes stripped from the girl before her body was dumped in the canyon eight miles west of Boulder. "We're doing some scouting over this whole area, a little farther than we've searched before," Everson said. "We need those clothes and if we don't find them we may never identify the girl." "NOT BOULDER GIRL" Everson said he at first believed the murder victim had lived in the Boulder area but that he now thinks she had come from some distance. He said that girl, about 17 to 20, would have been reported missing by now if she had lived near Boulder. Two University of Colorado freshmen, Wayne Swanson and James Andes, found the body about 6 p.m. Thursday on a sightseeing trip up the canyon. The girl had been savagely beaten and had suffered fractures of the skull, left arm, lower jaw and ribs. The sheriff said "perhaps 100" blond girls had been checked out in Boulder county without a clue to the slain girl's identity. He said the body would be held through this week but added he did not believe even anyone who knew the girl could identify her. HAIR, SCAR ONLY CLUES The features were so ravaged by animals they were unrecognizable and the fact the girl's teeth had never been worked on made it impossible to identify her through dental charts. Only clues were the long reddish-blond hair and an appendectomy scar. Descriptions of a dozen missing girls were checked against that of the murder victim but every lead came to nothing. The slaying appeared headed for the file of unsolved Colorado murders. |
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