Identified! CO - Boulder Co., WhtFem 'Boulder Jane Doe, 17-20, Mar'54 - Dorothy Howard

[LisainWV]

here's the 54 doe's page on doenetwork...

http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/433ufco.html


and her doenetwork info...


Unidentified White Female

• The victim was discovered on April 8, 1954 in Boulder Creek, Colorado
• Estimated Date of Death: 1 week

Vital Statistics

• Estimated age: 17- 20 years old (Dob 1934 - 1937)
• Approximate Height and Weight: 5'2"
• Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown hair, almost blonde with a tinge of red. Her hair did not appear to have been dyed or tinted. Appendectomy scar
• Dentals: Available. She had a perfect set of teeth with no fillings or cavities.
• Clothing: None. Three bobby pins were located.
• DNA: Available

Case History
The victim was located on April 8, 1954, near Boulder Falls, a popular tourist spot about nine miles up Boulder Canyon.
She was dumped 300 yards downstream from the parking area of Boulder Falls, popular with both residents and tourists. Her body was thrown from the road down a very steep 29' embankment and landed on rocks on the edge of the creek. Her body was not visible from the road because the embankment was so steep. She was found when 2 college students were jumping from rock to rock in the creek.
Neither her clothing nor other evidence were found, despite an extensive search of the area. Missing person reports circulating at the time, were checked out by the sheriff, without success. Few clues have surfaced to aid in identifying the woman.

 

[LisainWV]

It's sad that the times have changed so that now most of us are too busy to care about someone who died without a name.

 

[kwatson696]

I know, very sad.



http://www.boulderjanedoe.com/index.cfm?go=Story

Harvey Glatman, a serial killer, was dubbed The Lonely Hearts Killer,by newspapers in California that followed his murders there.


Glatman was executed in September 1959 in California after he was convicted of binding, raping, photographing and murdering three women in 1957 and 1958, according to the CourtTV Crime Librarys biography of Glatman.



Glatman was arrested in Boulder in 1945 for taking a young woman into the mountains, molesting her and then releasing her.

Would'nt someone have missed her???????????

 

[anthrobones]

Bumping up her thread

 

[Rle7]

Call it one woman's quest to give another a name. Ever since spotting the small gravestone inscribed "Jane Doe" in a Boulder, Colo., cemetery 10 years ago, historian Silvia Pettem has made it her business to identify the woman whose naked, beaten body was found off a steep embankment in 1954. Her killer was never found although some law enforcement officials speculated it might have been the notorious serial killer Harvey Glatman. In 1945, he had been arrested for kidnapping a woman in the area. Glatman was later executed after bungling a kidnapping and confessing to three murders.

Now, after countless dead-ends, missing documents, a stint on "America's Most Wanted," and a reopened investigation into the case, Pettem and others believe the woman is from San Antonio.

But finding her family to affirm it through matching DNA has proved even more difficult than patching together the mysterious journey of Katharine Farrand's life.

"I'm beginning to think I might have to give up," Pettem said recently from her downtown hotel. In town this week to present the case at the annual meeting for the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Pettem had learned both discouraging and inspiring details at the Bexar County court house that day. "I just kind of thought about her while I was walking back and thought, 'if she was here, why is she being so elusive?'"

Pettem sighed, "I'm in it too deep right now."

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA20070224.01A.NZ.State.sa_jane_doe24.12a849d.html

 

[Rle7]

1926-1954 Oct. 14, 1926: Katharine Farrand is born in San Antonio, according to her marriage affidavit. 1948: A listing for a Katharine E. Farrand appears in the Denver city directory.

Sept. 25, 1949: Farrand marries Jimmie Dyer, in Prescott, Ariz. The couples are listed together each year in Denver city directories from 1951 through 1953.

March 26, 1954: Farrand disappears from her Denver home. The 27-year-old is now separated from her husband and working as an elevator operator at American Furniture Co.

April 8, 1954: Two Colorado University students discover the body of a nude, battered woman on the banks of Boulder Creek, just outside Boulder, Colo. She was in her 20s, thin, with strawberry blond hair. Denver police find two case files of missing women whose descriptions resembled the body. One of them is Farrand.

April 22, 1954: Boulder residents paid for the woman's funeral and a small gravestone, on which they inscribed 'Jane Doe.'

1970: According to Boulder's newspaper, the Daily Camera, all records in the Boulder County Sheriff's Department were lost after the incumbent sheriff lost re-election.

1996: Boulder historian Silvia Pettem finds out about Jane Doe at a gravesite re-enactment, becomes intrigued and starts researching her case.

June 2004: Due to Pettem's efforts, the Boulder County Sheriff's Department and forensics experts with the Vidocq Society exhume Jane Doe's skeletal remains. Her skull is reassembled and DNA is collected from her bones. A sculptor begins working on a likeness of her face.

2006: A Boulder County sheriff's detective says the 1954 murder may be tied to serial killer Harvey Glatman, who was executed after confessing to murdering three women. Glatman grew up in Colorado.

The 'Jane Doe' case appears on 'America's Most Wanted' but nets few credible leads.

Feb. 23, 2007: Pettem and the Vidocq Society present their work in San Antonio at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Sources: Silvia Pettem, boulderjanedoe.com, and newspaper articles from the Boulder Daily Camera, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and Boulder County Sheriff's Department news releases

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA20070224.01A.NZ.State.sa_jane_doe24.12a849d.html

 

[Richard]

Links to other WS threads concerning Boulder Jane Doe:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14254

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44628

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35695

 

[Richard]

Links to other WS threads concerning Boulder Jane Doe:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44628

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35695

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35662

 

[Silvia]

Thanks to all for your continued interest in Boulder Jane Doe and for posting mention of the recent publicity in the San Antonio paper. Go to http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA20070224.01A.NZ.State.sa_jane_doe24.12a849d.html for the entire article or go to www.boulderjanedoe.com and click on the link under "Articles." I'm hoping that someone in the San Antonio area will help in our search to identify Jane Doe so we can return her remains to her family. I am NOT going to give up as was implied in the article. Silvia Pettem

 

[Stella]

It would be a good idea to check the areas SURROUNDING San Antonio as well. Some of the suburbs and small towns consider themselves part of San Antonio and if I remember correctly, some of the schools outside of San Antonio proper are nonetheless part of its school district.

 

[WholeLottaRosie]

Some ideas - I wonder about this Farrand that was killed at the air base. Could he have been a husband or a brother? Where was he from? Maybe a search in his home area will reveal a marriage or family of his? Maybe she was from somewhere else and moved to the San Antonio area to be near him, and then after his death moved to Colorado. Do you have the date of death for Danny, other than just 1950?

 

[Silvia]

You've raised some good points, and we're looking into them. We have Danny's family history, and know that Katharine was not his sister. I have talked with one member of Danny Farrand's family, and she does not believe he ever was married. His short obit (d. 17 Nov. 1950) does not mention a wife. There are no marriage records for Danny Farrand in Denver or San Antonio. He came from Langlade County, Wisconsin (parents were Ned and Verba Farrand), and so far we have not found any marriage records there, either. Remember, Katharine was listed alone as Katharine Farrand in the Denver directory in 1948, then married Jimmie Dyer in 1949. So, if she was married to a Farrand (instead of Farrand being her maiden name), it would have had to have been very briefly in the mid-1940s. Perhaps someone who died in WWII.

 

[WholeLottaRosie]

Okay, I was apparently on the path of the same Danny Farrand. I wonder if she could have been a girl friend or something using that last name. Not sure why I think that. I saw very late last night (this morning) that you posted on a county genelogical website about the same Danny Farrand I had found and realized we had the same one.

Do you have the Ferrands killed in WWII? or in the military? I don't want to duplicate efforts - but, somewhere I found some info on military deaths so will pursue that if you haven't.

I am hoping as I know you are that the article will jog a memory in the SA area.

 

[talelights]

bumping for BJD

 

[MaryLiz]

Update on website. A photographic comparison of Katharine Farrand Dyer was made to the cast of BJD's skull.

http://www.boulderjanedoe.com/index.cfm?go=Progress

 

[Silvia]

As noted above, Katharine E. Farrand Dyer's photo was recently superimposed over a casting of Jane Doe's skull. This was a very sophisticated process, and there was no way to make a positive ID, only "exclude" or "failure to exclude." In this case, Katharine fit the "failure to exclude" category, which means that her facial features, bone structure, etc. are a good match. Stay tuned to www.boulderjanedoe.com, as the Boulder Sheriff's Office soon will issue a press release. I believe that Katharine is Jane Doe. If no relatives are found for DNA comparison or to claim her, her remains will be reburied in Boulder. Silvia Pettem

 

[gaia227]

Congrats Silvia - you're hard work and dedication is paying off. It makes a lot of sense that Katherine is Jane Doe. I wish we could know for certain.
Have you been able to determine if all of Katherine's family members are now deceased? How much is known about Katherine's family?

 

[MaryLiz]

As noted above, Katharine E. Farrand Dyer's photo was recently superimposed over a casting of Jane Doe's skull. This was a very sophisticated process, and there was no way to make a positive ID, only "exclude" or "failure to exclude." In this case, Katharine fit the "failure to exclude" category, which means that her facial features, bone structure, etc. are a good match. Stay tuned to www.boulderjanedoe.com, as the Boulder Sheriff's Office soon will issue a press release. I believe that Katharine is Jane Doe. If no relatives are found for DNA comparison or to claim her, her remains will be reburied in Boulder. Silvia Pettem

I too believe that Katharine is BJD. Everything just makes sense about it. And since Harvey Glatman was in the area then I believe very strongly that he could have been involved in this. I sure wish you could find SOMEONE from her family to get DNA from. It's got to be terribly frustrating for you. But the fact that she fit the failure to exclude category is a very good thing. Congratulations again on the recent match!

 

[WholeLottaRosie]

Congrats Silvia - you're hard work and dedication is paying off. It makes a lot of sense that Katherine is Jane Doe. I wish we could know for certain.
Have you been able to determine if all of Katherine's family members are now deceased? How much is known about Katherine's family?

Not Silvia, but answering anyway.

NOTHING is known about Katherine Farrand Dyer's family. No one is sure if Farrand is a maiden name - this seems likely. Or if she were married before her marriage to Dyer. Her current whereabouts are unknown. No one has any information on her family. If they were found DNA testing could be done. No one knows for sure where she was originally from. Go to the website, boulderjanedoe.com. There is a treasure trove of information there, including the majority of articles written about this case.

 

[knitrocks]

Hi Sylvia,

I have been to your website and have spent quite a bit of time there.

You have done a great job in researching the case. I am guessing Katherine. Has any one given thought that she may have been married before. She may be listed in the Census under a different last name? She disappearred around the right time.

I thought it odd that the early reports gave Jane Doe hair color as red and later reports was blonde with a reddish tinge.