April 19, 1954 Denver Post, Rites For Slain Girl Set Thursday
The girl whose body was found two weeks ago in Boulder Canyon will go to her grave Thursday afternoon, unknown but not unmourned.
Instead of the pauper's grave planned for her, she will be buried in Columbia Cemetery in a plot donated by Boulder citizens. The Rev. Paul Fife, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, will read the mass for the dead.
BODY FOUND APRIL 8
Coroner George Howe said services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Howe Mortuary. Part of the funeral will be paid for by the county and the rest will be borne by the mortuary, which will provide pallbearers.
The nude body of the girl with the strawberry-blond hair was found April 8 in the canyon eight miles west of Boulder. She had been beaten so savagely her skull, jaw, left arm and ribs were fractured. Her body apparently had been thrown from a car beside the creek.
An autopsy showed she had been dead five to seven days when found by two University of Colorado freshmen and had been taken to the spot near Boulder Falls in a car. There the investigation came to a dead end.
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