This case is super intriguing.
I think the girls were killed the night they disappeared or within a day of their disappearance. Their bodies were frozen in a large meat locker for a few weeks before being dumped outside.
I still think it's strongly possible they were alive when he stripped them naked. It would be a great way of making them feel degraded, humiliated and vulnerable - the feelings would be heightened because these were girls of the 1950s - also it would hasten their deaths when he put them in the meat locker.
What I find interesting Natasha, the newspaper of the day (1956) had the crime scene photo of their naked bodies beside the road on the front page. So the report kept out the grisly details of rape but their dead bodies was ok to print. Must have been shocking at the time, the local paper also printed the photo of the dead bodies of the schuessler-peterson boys who were murdered 1955, in Chicago also. That also is an interesting case. Just so many unsolved crimes, very sad.
Prime Suspect, do you think that if there *hadn't* been a cover-up of the fact that Barbara and Patricia had both been raped and there hadn't been a order to the press at the time saying they couldn't publish certain aspects, that there would have been a better chance of the murderer being caught?
They also had attractive faces, in addition to Barbara having a nice figure.
Where can I view the autopsy report?
I'm curious for opinions: Was this done by a local, someone they knew or a serial killer passing through the area?