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Don Pride, "Police Get Explanation Of Rope on Woman's Neck," Tampa Tribune, 8 March 1961, 8.
"Drowning victim still unidentified," Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, FL], 15 March 1961, 4B.
Dave Bradford, "Search Broadened for Facts on Dead Woman," Tampa Tribune, 16 March 1961, D1.
The woman, described as between 35 and 45 years old, was found floating head up in six feet of water between Courtney Campbell Causeway and a power plant on the north.
She was clad in a faded aqua bathing suit and had a 45-pound concrete block tied to her feet with a cotton sash cord.
[...]
Police indicated that the bathing suit, because of a hand-scrawled "15" found on the inside, may have been rented and thus figure prominently in identifying the woman.
The bathing suit was size 14 by 36.
[...]
Her body was found by a Tampa man who looped an anchor rope around her neck in an attempt to tow her into shore. The rope broke and he went to summon police.
Meanwhile, the body was pulled into shore by a Pinellas policeman. Tampa police arrived at the scene and later learned that the body had been taken into Pinellas County.
"Unidentified Body Is Buried," Tampa Bay Times [Tampa, FL], 21 March 1961, 12C.
But R. Earl Newberry, chief criminal investigator for the sheriff, said it was probable the woman stayed somewhere in the area and urged that operators of tourist courts or other rental facilities report any information they might have on a female tenant who left prior to March 1.
Dave Gaumer, "Body Found In Gulf; Recall Grove Robbery," Belvidere Daily Republican [Belvidere, IL], 30 March 1961, 1.
Amos McNames, police chief of Poplar Grove, has been notified by the Pinellas county (Florida) sheriff's department of the similarity of descriptions of the Crusenberry woman and the body of a woman who was found in Tampa Bay with a concrete block tied around her right ankle with a window sash cord.
[...]
The weighted body of the woman was clad in a green one-piece bathing suit when it was fished out of old Tampa Bay on March 4, [chief deputy of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department Gerry] Coleman said.
"She died from drowning," the deputy stated, "although she had been struck across the right temple with a blunt object before she was tossed in the bay."
[...]
"We traced the bathing suit to a department store in Tampa," Coleman went on. "It was purchased there for $15. But no one remembers by whom, since it was a common type."
The dead woman also was wearing a cheap cocktail ring and two inexpensive bracelets, the Florida law enforcement agent said. But efforts to trace them were almost hopeless since they are of little value and could have been purchased almost anywhere.
The body, which had been in the water between 48 and 72 hours according to Coleman, was of a white female between the ages of 35 and 45, about 5-3 to 5-5 tall, and weighing between 115 and 130 pounds. She had only seven lower teeth and it was believed that she wore a full set of upper false teeth and a partial lower plate, although they were not found.
Duane Bradford, "Police Push Search for Identity Of Woman Found Dead in Bay," Tampa Tribune, 2 April 1961, 6C.
Detective Capt. Frank Bowen said yesterday that the bathing suit has been positively identified as having been purchased from a Tampa used clothing store.
"The numbers '15' represented the price -- 15 cents--" Bowen said, adding that an employe of the Tampa Heights clothing store gave rise to hope of identifying the dead woman.
[...]
Bowing [sic] said the clothing store clerk told detectives "a woman fitting the dead woman's description" was seen in the store last December.
And, Bowen related, the dead woman may be a close friend of a former clerk at the clothing store who now is believed to be living in New York state.
The New York woman last worked at the store in April, 1959. Tampa police have asked New York State police to join in the search and are currently awaiting word from Empire State authorities.
"Teeth May Reveal Woman's Identity," Orlando Sentinel, 10 September 1961, 2B.
The woman was aged 35 to 45, about 5 ft. 4 inches tall and had dark brown medium length wavy hair, possibly a recent permanent. She was clad in a one-piece aqua-colored Jantzen bathing suit, inexpensive dinner ring and inexpensive chain bracelets on each wrist.
The victim's fingernails and toenails were painted with red nail polish and the body had a three-inch appendectomy scar on the right side and a four-inch, half-moon shaped scar from a pelvic operation on the lower center of the abdomen.
She had only seven lower front teeth. She had upper dentures and a partial lower plate which were not recovered. The teeth had been removed probably at a minimum of five years before death.
"It is thought that this person wore an upper full denture and a lower partial denture. Due to lack of no apparent calculus it is thought that this person had visited a dentist within the past year," the report stated along with the other information gleaned from a dental examination.
Martin Dyckman, "Name Of Woman Found In Bay Is Still 'Jane Doe' To Detectives," Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, FL], 24 September 1961, 14B.
"It is amazing," Detective Capt. R. E. Newberry of the Pinellas Sheriff's Office said yesterday, "how a person can disappear for more than six months without someone missing her.
"We have just about exhausted all possibilities," he said in issuing a fresh appeal for "any clue, however small."
"We will check it out confidentially," he promised.
Jane Doe had suffered a head injury and died of drowning, an autopsy showed.
[...]
The Sheriff's inestigators [sic] still avoid officially terming her death murder.
Newberry conceded yesterday that the circumstances "would indicate homicide."
[...]
The bathing suit that was her only garment was a size 14 -- taken in to make it somewhat smaller -- with a size 36 bust. Her shoe size was estimated at 4 1/2 to 5B.
"Drowning victim still unidentified," Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, FL], 15 March 1961, 4B.
Dave Bradford, "Search Broadened for Facts on Dead Woman," Tampa Tribune, 16 March 1961, D1.
The woman, described as between 35 and 45 years old, was found floating head up in six feet of water between Courtney Campbell Causeway and a power plant on the north.
She was clad in a faded aqua bathing suit and had a 45-pound concrete block tied to her feet with a cotton sash cord.
[...]
Police indicated that the bathing suit, because of a hand-scrawled "15" found on the inside, may have been rented and thus figure prominently in identifying the woman.
The bathing suit was size 14 by 36.
[...]
Her body was found by a Tampa man who looped an anchor rope around her neck in an attempt to tow her into shore. The rope broke and he went to summon police.
Meanwhile, the body was pulled into shore by a Pinellas policeman. Tampa police arrived at the scene and later learned that the body had been taken into Pinellas County.
"Unidentified Body Is Buried," Tampa Bay Times [Tampa, FL], 21 March 1961, 12C.
But R. Earl Newberry, chief criminal investigator for the sheriff, said it was probable the woman stayed somewhere in the area and urged that operators of tourist courts or other rental facilities report any information they might have on a female tenant who left prior to March 1.
Dave Gaumer, "Body Found In Gulf; Recall Grove Robbery," Belvidere Daily Republican [Belvidere, IL], 30 March 1961, 1.
Amos McNames, police chief of Poplar Grove, has been notified by the Pinellas county (Florida) sheriff's department of the similarity of descriptions of the Crusenberry woman and the body of a woman who was found in Tampa Bay with a concrete block tied around her right ankle with a window sash cord.
[...]
The weighted body of the woman was clad in a green one-piece bathing suit when it was fished out of old Tampa Bay on March 4, [chief deputy of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department Gerry] Coleman said.
"She died from drowning," the deputy stated, "although she had been struck across the right temple with a blunt object before she was tossed in the bay."
[...]
"We traced the bathing suit to a department store in Tampa," Coleman went on. "It was purchased there for $15. But no one remembers by whom, since it was a common type."
The dead woman also was wearing a cheap cocktail ring and two inexpensive bracelets, the Florida law enforcement agent said. But efforts to trace them were almost hopeless since they are of little value and could have been purchased almost anywhere.
The body, which had been in the water between 48 and 72 hours according to Coleman, was of a white female between the ages of 35 and 45, about 5-3 to 5-5 tall, and weighing between 115 and 130 pounds. She had only seven lower teeth and it was believed that she wore a full set of upper false teeth and a partial lower plate, although they were not found.
Duane Bradford, "Police Push Search for Identity Of Woman Found Dead in Bay," Tampa Tribune, 2 April 1961, 6C.
Detective Capt. Frank Bowen said yesterday that the bathing suit has been positively identified as having been purchased from a Tampa used clothing store.
"The numbers '15' represented the price -- 15 cents--" Bowen said, adding that an employe of the Tampa Heights clothing store gave rise to hope of identifying the dead woman.
[...]
Bowing [sic] said the clothing store clerk told detectives "a woman fitting the dead woman's description" was seen in the store last December.
And, Bowen related, the dead woman may be a close friend of a former clerk at the clothing store who now is believed to be living in New York state.
The New York woman last worked at the store in April, 1959. Tampa police have asked New York State police to join in the search and are currently awaiting word from Empire State authorities.
"Teeth May Reveal Woman's Identity," Orlando Sentinel, 10 September 1961, 2B.
The woman was aged 35 to 45, about 5 ft. 4 inches tall and had dark brown medium length wavy hair, possibly a recent permanent. She was clad in a one-piece aqua-colored Jantzen bathing suit, inexpensive dinner ring and inexpensive chain bracelets on each wrist.
The victim's fingernails and toenails were painted with red nail polish and the body had a three-inch appendectomy scar on the right side and a four-inch, half-moon shaped scar from a pelvic operation on the lower center of the abdomen.
She had only seven lower front teeth. She had upper dentures and a partial lower plate which were not recovered. The teeth had been removed probably at a minimum of five years before death.
"It is thought that this person wore an upper full denture and a lower partial denture. Due to lack of no apparent calculus it is thought that this person had visited a dentist within the past year," the report stated along with the other information gleaned from a dental examination.
Martin Dyckman, "Name Of Woman Found In Bay Is Still 'Jane Doe' To Detectives," Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, FL], 24 September 1961, 14B.
"It is amazing," Detective Capt. R. E. Newberry of the Pinellas Sheriff's Office said yesterday, "how a person can disappear for more than six months without someone missing her.
"We have just about exhausted all possibilities," he said in issuing a fresh appeal for "any clue, however small."
"We will check it out confidentially," he promised.
Jane Doe had suffered a head injury and died of drowning, an autopsy showed.
[...]
The Sheriff's inestigators [sic] still avoid officially terming her death murder.
Newberry conceded yesterday that the circumstances "would indicate homicide."
[...]
The bathing suit that was her only garment was a size 14 -- taken in to make it somewhat smaller -- with a size 36 bust. Her shoe size was estimated at 4 1/2 to 5B.
