Recent content by Silvia

Here's a TV story on Gardner Smith, Body found in Colorado identified as missing skier Gardner Smith

IDENTIFIED! LAKE COUNTY (INDEPENDENCE PASS) JOHN DOE, found in 1970 https://www.leadvilleherald.com/free_content/article_e44a127e-ae3e-11ed-ac37-331aaaa88197.html

The updated/paperback edition of Someone's Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe is now available on Amazon and elsewhere.

The "Boulder Jane Doe" case is featured in Episode 2 of "Web of Death" that just starting streaming, yesterday, on Hulu.

Six episodes of "Web of Death" premier today on Hulu. Already getting good reviews!

Other Jane Does I've researched in the 1950s either hitchhiked or traveled by bus. Both very common. Could be she was fleeing from an abusive husband.

Thank you for discussing this case with the coroner. I'm not surprised that the Jane Doe's remains were dumped in a landfill, but I find it so very very sad. This woman deserves the "presumptive ID."

Thank you for caring about this woman. I would like to know who she is, too.

Sadly, there is no headstone, nor an entry for her burial. I just went to FindAGrave and it says, "Unable to locate where victim was buried, Dory Hill was chosen to facilitate entry on findagrave, as it is the closest to where she was found." It's odd (and confusing) that someone did that, as...

ID TO BE RELEASED NEXT WEEK! See today's (12/1/22) story, Philadelphia Police to Reveal Identity of 'Boy in the Box' Next Week (author of "Cold Case Chronicles: Mysteries, Murders & the Missing," which gives extensive background info on this case)

Hello all, and thanks to the reader who contacted me directly about this case. I read every old newspaper article I could find on "Black Hawk Jane Doe" (also called Gilpin County JD, as Black Hawk is a town in Gilpin Co. Colorado) back in 2004, when I started my research on "Boulder Jane Doe."...

Please tell me more, i.e. send a link, etc., about Norma Jean Halford. I don't see her on NamUs, but I'm in Colorado -- perhaps I can help. Thanks, Silvia Pettem

Here's the link to a news clip for Boulder Jane Doe's/Dorothy Gay Howard's memorial service, May 22, 2010. An emotional day.... http://cbs4denver.com/video/?id=71450@kcnc.dayport.com

I agree, the Charley Project listing under Katharine Farrand Dyer (which discusses the Boulder Jane Doe case) needs to state that Boulder Jane Doe has been identified. I can't get the Charley Project home page to open without an error message, and I can't get contact info. Maybe someone else can...

Please see www.boulderjanedoe.com (particularly the EPILOGUE) for the latest information on this case. Yes, this murder victim from 1954 was identified in October 2009 as Dorothy Gay Howard, an 18-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona. Thank you for caring about this young woman.