Garnet Eleanor Ginn, 33, Unsolved Murder
Birth 13 Oct 1916, Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA
Death 27 Feb 1950 (aged 33), Portland, Jay County, Indiana, USA
Burial: Akron IOOF Cemetery
Akron, Fulton County, Indiana, USA
Plot Northeast Section, Row 7
The Feb. 27 (1950) death of Miss Garnet GINN, 33-year-old Portland high school teacher and former resident of Fulton County, has been revealed as murder--a cold blooded murder by a calculating killer who went to elaborate pains to try to cloak his crime as a suicide, the Indianapolis Star reported today. The body of Miss Ginn was exhumed Wednesday from the Akron cemetery and transported 100 miles to Indianapolis for the autopsy, authorized by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Estil GINN of Mt. Summit.
Ginn, who with his family formerly lived near Athens, telephoned The News-Sentinel the day after his daughter's body was found suspended from the door handle of her car at Portland to insist that her death was not suicide. Jay County Coroner Donald E. SPAHR gave strangulation as the cause of the death but did not indicate it to be either suicide or homicide.
The autopsy showed she was struck seven times on the head with a club or other weapon without a sharp edge. One savage blow over the left ear could have been made with a revolver butt. According to deductions, Miss Ginn was the victim of an assailant who sprang from the darkness in her garage to assault her murderously when she drove home from a sorority party the night of Feb. 27.
Lending color to the original appearance of suicide was the report that a sewing machine belt found twisted around her neck, was missing from the machine in her apartment. The teacher's father, well-known in Fulton County, insisted from the beginning, however, that his daughter did not own a sewing machine. The autopsy solved the question of death, only to present another more baffling. Police are still without important clues or a motive for the murder.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1950
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh...
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Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Friday, April 14, 1950 The Feb. 27 death of Miss Garnet GINN, 33-year-old Portland high school teacher and former resident of Fulton County, has been revealed as murder--a cold blooded murder by a calculating killer who went to elaborate pains to...
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