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From the OMAHA WORLD HERALD
Sunday, 11 December 1955
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SECOND CASE ON WEST SIDE IN FIVE DAYS: Carolyn Nevins was Brilliant Student
A brilliant and attractive University of Omaha co-ed was found murdered on the campus early Saturday.
The body of Miss Carolyn Nevins, 20, of 4923 Cass Street, was found beside the driveway leading into the campus from Dodge Street.
She had last been seen waiting for her father to take her home.
She was shot four times- twice in the upper arm, once in the left shoulder and once in the middle of the chest.
One of the bullets which hit her in the arm entered her left lung.
There was no evidence of rape, but although police did not rule out the possibility that sex was the motive.
Her skirt was pulled up over her hips and her underclothing was disheveled.
She had not been robbed.
The Nevins slaying was the second in West Omaha in five days.
Miss Nevins’s killer used a .32-caliber automatic, the same type weapon as in the Erick W. Burkwist shooting last Monday.
However, a preliminary check ruled out the possibility that the same gun was used in both murders, police said.
Her father was to have picked her up at 10pm, but was more than an hour late.
She had participated in a debate during the day and worked in the library until a few minutes before 10pm.
Co-workers saw her sit down at the bus stop as they left.
Mr. Nevins came by at about 11:25pm and failed to see her. Thinking she had gotten a ride with friends, he returned home.
Detective Sgts. Al Pattavina, Jr., and Earl White drove out to the university and their headlights disclosed the body, lying a foot or two from the curb on the west side of the driveway.
A moment before police arrived, the body had been seen by a bakery truck driver, Joseph Caniglia, 1903 South Sixteenth Street.
He was summoning the night watchman, Carl Kumneman, 216 South Twenty-fifth Street, as the detectives arrived.
Among the last persons to see Miss Nevins alive was Frank Paulsen, an English instructor.
“There was a streetlight overhead so I recognized her readily,” Mr. Paulsen said.
“I asked her if she wanted a lift and she declined. I’m not sure she recognized me. I got into my car and drove home.”
Five hours later her body was found. It was lying about two hundred feet north of the bus stop. It is about the same distance from Dodge Street.
Detectives said they could find no evidence of a struggle.
However, Chief Deputy Sheriff Jack Knudtson theorized that possibly she had been taken away in a car and returned.
He pointed out Mr. Nevins didn’t see the body when he drove to the university, yet the police saw it easily.
Police also know that two couples drove up the driveway about 1am following a dance to pick up a car belonging to one of the couples which had been left in the university parking lot.
There were leaves in one hand and on Miss Nevin’s bobby sox and knees. Her shoes were found right side up about 125 feet south of the body. Her blood-stained scarf was lying between them.
She clutched two dimes, inside her right glove.
Miss Nevins weighed about 140 pounds and was about 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Sunday, 11 December 1955
Page 1, 3:
SECOND CASE ON WEST SIDE IN FIVE DAYS: Carolyn Nevins was Brilliant Student
A brilliant and attractive University of Omaha co-ed was found murdered on the campus early Saturday.
The body of Miss Carolyn Nevins, 20, of 4923 Cass Street, was found beside the driveway leading into the campus from Dodge Street.
She had last been seen waiting for her father to take her home.
She was shot four times- twice in the upper arm, once in the left shoulder and once in the middle of the chest.
One of the bullets which hit her in the arm entered her left lung.
Sex Not Ruled Out
The shooting apparently occurred between 10:55 and 11:25pm. The body was discovered at 4:10am.There was no evidence of rape, but although police did not rule out the possibility that sex was the motive.
Her skirt was pulled up over her hips and her underclothing was disheveled.
She had not been robbed.
The Nevins slaying was the second in West Omaha in five days.
Miss Nevins’s killer used a .32-caliber automatic, the same type weapon as in the Erick W. Burkwist shooting last Monday.
However, a preliminary check ruled out the possibility that the same gun was used in both murders, police said.
At or Near Bus Stop
Miss Nevins, a debater and part-time employe in the University Library, apparently was slain as she waited at or near a bus stop just east of the main building.Her father was to have picked her up at 10pm, but was more than an hour late.
She had participated in a debate during the day and worked in the library until a few minutes before 10pm.
Co-workers saw her sit down at the bus stop as they left.
Mr. Nevins came by at about 11:25pm and failed to see her. Thinking she had gotten a ride with friends, he returned home.
Spotted by Headlights
She wasn’t there so he returned to the university, but still failed to see her. At 3:50am he notified police.Detective Sgts. Al Pattavina, Jr., and Earl White drove out to the university and their headlights disclosed the body, lying a foot or two from the curb on the west side of the driveway.
A moment before police arrived, the body had been seen by a bakery truck driver, Joseph Caniglia, 1903 South Sixteenth Street.
He was summoning the night watchman, Carl Kumneman, 216 South Twenty-fifth Street, as the detectives arrived.
Among the last persons to see Miss Nevins alive was Frank Paulsen, an English instructor.
Declined Lift
Mr. Paulsen said he left the main university building at 10:55pm and was getting into his car at the faculty parking lot near the bus stop when he saw Miss Nevins. She was sitting on a retaining wall at the bottom of a flight of steps.“There was a streetlight overhead so I recognized her readily,” Mr. Paulsen said.
“I asked her if she wanted a lift and she declined. I’m not sure she recognized me. I got into my car and drove home.”
Five hours later her body was found. It was lying about two hundred feet north of the bus stop. It is about the same distance from Dodge Street.
Detectives said they could find no evidence of a struggle.
Possibly in Car
It was not immediately clear how she got from the bus stop area to the point where her body was found.However, Chief Deputy Sheriff Jack Knudtson theorized that possibly she had been taken away in a car and returned.
He pointed out Mr. Nevins didn’t see the body when he drove to the university, yet the police saw it easily.
Police also know that two couples drove up the driveway about 1am following a dance to pick up a car belonging to one of the couples which had been left in the university parking lot.
Clutched Two Dimes
Police also were checking a report from residents between Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Streets on Chicago Street that they heard gunshots about midnight.There were leaves in one hand and on Miss Nevin’s bobby sox and knees. Her shoes were found right side up about 125 feet south of the body. Her blood-stained scarf was lying between them.
She clutched two dimes, inside her right glove.
Miss Nevins weighed about 140 pounds and was about 5 feet 8 inches tall.
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