IDENTIFIED! LAKE COUNTY (INDEPENDENCE PASS) JOHN DOE, found in 1970
https://www.leadvilleherald.com/free_content/article_e44a127e-ae3e-11ed-ac37-331aaaa88197.html
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."
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.
Here's the official Sheriff's press release, just out. Unfortunately, the newspaper didn't wait for all of the correct information:
http://www.bouldercounty.org/newsroom/templates/bocosheriff.aspx?articleid=1996&zoneid=2
Update on Boulder Jane Doe/ Dorothy Gay Howard tonight (Jan. 23, 2010) on Fox TV's "America's Most Wanted" (1 of several segments in hour-long show). Afterwards, watch online at http://www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=amw#
As Paul Harvey used to say, here's "the rest of the story."
http://www.silviapettem.com/JANE%20DOE%20articles/Epilogue.html?articleid=1880&zoneid=2
Thanks for caring about Boulder Jane Doe (Dorothy Gay Howard),
Silvia
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