"Every clue we had seems to have fizzled out," Everson said. "We're just up against a wall right now."

Everson said officers are still combing the Boulder Canyon area where the battered, mutilated body of the strawberry blond was found by two University of Colorado freshmen in hopes of finding her clothes. Her fingerprints, the sheriff said, will be sent to the FBI in Washington next week to see if they will help identify her.

REPORT DISCOUNTED
Everson said his ofice has received information about "several hundred" girls missing throughout the U.S., but so far none has been promising.

Meantime, Everson discounted the possibility the body was that of a Mary Jane Smith, a girl hitchhiker questioned by police in St. Francis, Kan., April 2. The girl, St. Francis authorities said, got into an auto bearing Kansas license plates April 3 and headed west.

However, Police Chief Joe Imherr of Julesburg, Colo., reported Friday that a Mary Jane Smith of Omaha, believed to be the same girl as seen in St. Francis, registered at a Julesburg hotel the night of April 9, and left Julesburg the following morning with two men from Sterling, Colo.

The body in Boulder Canyon was discovered April 8, the day before Mary Jane Smith registered in Julesburg.