"Dorothy Gale Brown (referred also as Dorthy Gale Brown) disappeared on Tuesday evening, July 2, 1962, while riding her bike to a car wash near her home in Torrance, Ca to purchase sodas from a vending machine. About 8:30 pm, her father found her bike parked on its kick stand on 21st Street near Border Avenue, one block from her trailer home, and called police.
The next morning, her white dress was discovered stuffed in a beer can on Tin Can Beach by a 12 year old girl who took it home. Her mother laundered it but turned it in to police when the story was made public.
About noon that day, her body was discovered by 2 skin divers floating in 25 feet of water in a kelp bed about 150 yards off shore, near Corona del Mar. She had been in the water for 6-8 hours. Her pink plastic hair band was found by police also stuffed into a beer can on Tin Can Beach.
Police theorized that Gale had known her abductor and that she may have been taken by boat to the location where she was discovered because the currents in that location would have taken her body toward the shore. She had been drowned.
Though police questioned 2 suspects in her murder, no one was ever charged and her case was never solved."
Some articles on the case: Desert Sun 5 July 1962 — California Digital Newspaper Collection
dorothy gale brown - Newspapers.com
Also, serial killer Mack Ray Edwards is considered a suspect on Dorothy´s murder: Mack Ray Edwards | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
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The next morning, her white dress was discovered stuffed in a beer can on Tin Can Beach by a 12 year old girl who took it home. Her mother laundered it but turned it in to police when the story was made public.
About noon that day, her body was discovered by 2 skin divers floating in 25 feet of water in a kelp bed about 150 yards off shore, near Corona del Mar. She had been in the water for 6-8 hours. Her pink plastic hair band was found by police also stuffed into a beer can on Tin Can Beach.
Police theorized that Gale had known her abductor and that she may have been taken by boat to the location where she was discovered because the currents in that location would have taken her body toward the shore. She had been drowned.
Though police questioned 2 suspects in her murder, no one was ever charged and her case was never solved."
Some articles on the case: Desert Sun 5 July 1962 — California Digital Newspaper Collection
dorothy gale brown - Newspapers.com
Also, serial killer Mack Ray Edwards is considered a suspect on Dorothy´s murder: Mack Ray Edwards | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
Long-dead killer back in sights of police
Kidnapping, Murder, and Mayhem: Who Murdered the California Schoolgirls?
