He and local historian Silvia Pettem worked in the "America's Most Wanted" tip room as the 10-minute story aired telling the story of a local 52-year-old unsolved murder in which the victim is still unidentified. Jane Doe's body was discovered by two CU students near Boulder Creek on April 8, 1954. Investigators believe she had been dead for about a week at the time. She was never identified, and was buried under the Jane Doe moniker.

"We got about 15 leads," Ainsworth said. "A couple said she looks like a family member and we got one who was actually a model for Harvey Glatman the day before he was arrested by LAPD."

Harvey Glatman, a serial killer, was dubbed "The Lonely Hearts Killer", by newspapers in California that followed his murders there.

Glatman was executed in September 1959 in California after he was convicted of binding, raping, photographing and murdering three women in 1957 and 1958, according to the CourtTV Crime Library's biography of Glatman.

According to Ainsworth, Glatman was arrested in Boulder in 1945 for taking a young woman into the mountains, molesting her and then releasing her.

After moving to Los Angeles, Glatman began approaching model agencies to hire women to pose in bondage-themed photographs based on the popular pulp crime magazine covers at the time. He met two of his victims, Judith Ann Dull and Ruth Mercado through the agencies, the Crime Library reports, and another victim, Shirley Ann Bridgeford, through a Lonely Hearts club, which earned him his nickname. With all three women, he bound them with ropes, photographed them and killed them.

Police arrested Glatman while he was trying to abduct a fourth woman, who was trying to escape from his car when an officer happened along. He reportedly confessed to the three murders.

Ainsworth said investigators asked him about his activities in Colorado, and he said that women in Colorado should be alive unless they were hit by a car, which is consistent with Jane Doe's death.

The Glatman connection was initially made on Pettem's Web site, BoulderJaneDoe.com [Note: since replace by this site], and Pettem floated the idea with Ainsworth, who believes Glatman is a likely killer in the young woman's case given the circumstances.

Pettem's enthusiasm for the decades-old cold case led to the case's reactivation and feature on "America's Most Wanted."

Jane Doe's body was exhumed in June 2004. A year later, a facial-reconstruction model of her head was developed. The reconstruction was featured on the television show.

Investigators believe she was about 20 years old at the time of her death, but she has never been identified, and her killer has never been found.

The print version of "America's Most Wanted" is available at www.amw.com.

Pierrette J. Shields can be reached at 303-684-5273, or by e-mail at pshields@times-call.com.