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 JANE DOE/DOROTHYA young woman, known only as "Jane Doe" was found murdered, in April 1954, west of Boulder, Colorado. The local community raised the funds to bury her; then 50 years later they rallied again to exhume her skeletal remains, profile her DNA, and complete a facial reconstruction – all in the hopes of providing an identification and returning her remains to her family. After the case took several twists and turns, the victim, still as Jane Doe, was reburied on September 9, 2008, in her former grave in Boulder's historic Columbia Cemetery. In October 2009, a DNA comparison with a surviving sister confirmed Jane Doe's identity as Dorothy Gay Howard, an 18-year-old then missing from Phoenix, Arizona... A new stone (incorporating the original) was placed on her grave in May 2010. |
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SEE – JANE DOE ARCHIVES PART 1 (ALL articles from 1954 to 2006) SEE - JANE DOE ARCHIVES PART 2 (ALL articles from 2006 through 2013)
Above, Silvia Pettem (on the left) and Commissioner William Fleisher (on the right) at the annual Vidocq Society awards banquet in Philadelphia, PA, October 24, 2010, where Pettem, Dr. Terry Melton, Frank Bender, and Fred Bornhofen received Medals of Honor for working together on the Boulder Jane Doe case. Photo courtesy of Sandy Bausch. Above (courtesy of the Daily Camera) and below, Alexis Bell portrayed Dorothy Gay Howard at Historic Boulder Inc.'s "Meet the Spirits" in Columbia Cemetery, October 17, 2010. The event raised funds for the cemetery's preservation.
On a perfect fall afternoon, Dorothy Gay Howard was one of 34 people portrayed in the cemetery.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). |
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