"The men involved in that case are stationed at Lowry."

Raedel said the man, who refused to give his name, then identified the two airmen, described their car and hung up. Zarnow called authoritites at Lowry and the airmen were immediately arrested and a search was launched for their car or one which might have been used.

NAMES WITHHELD
Names of the airmen were withheld until they could be questioned. Zarnow called Sheriff Art Everson of Boulder county who left immediately for Denver.

Everson said he would "bring everything with me" to aid in questioning the suspects. It was believed he would bring strands of the murder victim's hair and blood samples in an effort to match them with any such evidence that might be found.

It was the best tip on a solution to the murder officers have had since the girl's battered body was found in the canyon eight miles west of Boulder about 6 p.m. Thursday. She had been so badly beaten that her skull, left arm, lower jaw and ribs were fractured and had apparently been brought to the spot in a car and dumped or dragged down the creek bank.

TWO MEAGER CLUES
With only her long strawberry-blond hair and an appendectomy scar to aid in identifying the girl, officers ran into a blank wall. She had no dental work to trace and her features were so ravaged by animals as to be unrecognizable.

There was speculation she had come from another state, thus no reports of a missing girl had reached authorities in this area. Officers believe that if this proves so, the girl may have come to Denver to visit a boy friend or may have been picked up as a hitchhiker.

A white seersucker dress of the kind worn by waitresses or beauticians was found late Tuesday under a bush in the canyon about three miles from where the body was discovered. It was turned over to Everson as a possible clue but the sheriff said he did not put much importance in it. He said it appeared too large for the murder victim.

An autopsy showed the victim was about 17 to 20, slender and about 5 feet 3 inches. She weighed about 100 pounds.

The telephone tip to Captain Narnow brought the first flurry of action in the case since last Saturday when the arrest of a man driving a blood-stained car in Oklahoma led officers to hunt a possible link with the Boulder case. The Oklahoma inquiry turned up the murder of Bruce R. Weibel, former Derby man whose body was found under a bridge in western New Mexico.