SOLVED MA - Jane Britton, 22, Harvard student, Cambridge, 7 Jan 1969

[Pink Panther]

1969 Valley Morning Star Article with picture of detectives removing Jane's body from the house at 6 University Road.


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Thanks for posting this TtheBiblio. I had never seen that picture before. Did you manage to get the rest of the article that continues on a separate page?

 

[Rhino-Esq]

I received a reply from Cambridge PD:

I received your request regarding the status of the case of Jane Britton. Your best bet would be to contact the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office. They should be able to help you.

Middlesex District Attorney’s Office
15 Commonwealth Avenue
Woburn, MA 01801

Main Phone: (781) 897-8300

Thank you,
Criminal Investigations Division
Cambridge Police Department


** I am at work, would anyone want to call Middlesex County DA??

 

[TtheBibliotaph83]

Rhino:
Bottom middle of page
~T

View attachment Valley_Morning_Star_Wed__Jan_8__1969_ (2).pdf

 

[TtheBibliotaph83]

Rhino: On the phone with them now....

Edit: Have made contact with person in the records department at the Middlesex DA who is willing to work with me. I would ask that no one else contact at this time, so that no one gets annoyed by getting a ton of calls which may put them off on getting information....

Also, I contacted Kent state library and requested a copy of the picture from the Borowitz crime photograph collection...they will get back to me....

I will keep you updated!
~T

 

[Rhino-Esq]

Rhino: On the phone with them now....

Edit: Have made contact with person in the records department at the Middlesex DA who is willing to work with me. I would ask that no one else contact at this time, so that no one gets annoyed by getting a ton of calls which may put them off on getting information....

Also, I contacted Kent state library and requested a copy of the picture from the Borowitz crime photograph collection...they will get back to me....

I will keep you updated!
~T

Thank you, T!

 

[Pink Panther]

Sorry, I forgot to mention - she, the wife, (JP) was an anthropologist as well.

Her Daddy Hubert Norman was an ESQ.

 

[Ausgirl]

Edit: Have made contact with person in the records department at the Middlesex DA who is willing to work with me.
~T

This is extremely awesome, T. Really eager to see what comes of this. Thank you!

Galligan -- what I have observed, he's the guy most often 'quoted' when misinformation (as cleared up by Don M. ) is present in reports.

 

[TtheBibliotaph83]

From Kent State Library Borowitz Collection:

 

[radiator]

Rhino: On the phone with them now....

Edit: Have made contact with person in the records department at the Middlesex DA who is willing to work with me. I would ask that no one else contact at this time, so that no one gets annoyed by getting a ton of calls which may put them off on getting information....

Also, I contacted Kent state library and requested a copy of the picture from the Borowitz crime photograph collection...they will get back to me....

I will keep you updated!
~T

many thanks, T! (also, I finally got around to looking up bibliotaph...more thanks for adding to my vocabulary--there are a few people in my life that fit this description)

 

[DonMitchell]

From Kent State Library Borowitz Collection:

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It's good to see that this is the "crime scene" photograph people have mentioned. I had a hard time believing that it would be literally of the crime scene.

The door in the picture is the door across the landing from my place and Jane's place. In other words, to get to her place a person would go up the stairs that the guys are going down, turn left, and straight ahead would be my door. Turn left again, go down a very short hall, and you'd be in front of Jane's door.

 

[carbuff]

It's probably considered sleuthing noninvolved parties.

 

[Pink Panther]

Bumping for Jane.

 

[TtheBibliotaph83]

Nothing new to report yet....just waiting.....

~T

 

[December]

A lot of things in Jane's apartment could really only be fully understood by people in her field. (from what we've been told via media) I believe they brought in an expert/experts to help. I wonder if it would be helpful to have someone new go over these items again?

 

[bessie]

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Is it really that hard to snip a name down to initials?

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[fred&edna]

Nothing new to report yet....just waiting.....

~T

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:waiting:

I'm not very good at this waiting thing

 

[TtheBibliotaph83]

Im starting to get the feeling that I shouldn't be very hopeful in getting a response......So, I guess the question is...what now?

 

[Scrutin-eyes]

Hi folks,
New to the site and I think I have some information relative to this case, info completely ignored by the Cambridge Police Dept. In 1976 Richard M. Gramly, an archaeologist/geologist/Indian grave looter that graduated from Harvard and was enrolled in their anthropology department when Jane Britton was murdered, was involved in another cold case, that of Anne Abraham. I've attached a link for your convenience: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bfwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cYgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1101,2689266&hl=en

Ann Abraham, was an attractive young aspiring archaeologist that was paired with Gramly on a Smithsonian funded expedition to Labrador. Her body was never found. It was surmised she became the victim of a polar bear, though in the intensive search for her, the helicopter pilots reported seeing no such predators. Gramly is an expert of ancient Persian lithics, and of course an ancient stone axe was used to murder Bitton, at least according to the reports. Gramly has had a checkered life, having been forbidden by the state to conduct archaeological investigations in New York as he violated provisions of NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). It is reported that he had skull cap ashtrays and body part adornments throughout his office, and I have included a link for this as well: http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/landmark-settlement-protects-native-burial-site
His name once again surfaced recently in the news involving an FBI investigation of another Indian grave looter/body part collector: http://www.vocativ.com/culture/art-culture/indianas-real-indiana-jones/
Question, has anyone made this link and/or explored this? There are whispered rumors in the archaeological community that Gramly was interested in both deceased young women. Please let me know what you think, as these two women and their families deserve justice, and this guy fits the m.o.

 

[dotr]

Hi folks,
New to the site and I think I have some information relative to this case, info completely ignored by the Cambridge Police Dept. In 1976 Richard M. Gramly, an archaeologist/geologist/Indian grave looter that graduated from Harvard and was enrolled in their anthropology department when Jane Britton was murdered, was involved in another cold case, that of Anne Abraham. I've attached a link for your convenience: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bfwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cYgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1101,2689266&hl=en

Ann Abraham, was an attractive young aspiring archaeologist that was paired with Gramly on a Smithsonian funded expedition to Labrador. Her body was never found. It was surmised she became the victim of a polar bear, though in the intensive search for her, the helicopter pilots reported seeing no such predators. Gramly is an expert of ancient Persian lithics, and of course an ancient stone axe was used to murder Bitton, at least according to the reports. Gramly has had a checkered life, having been forbidden by the state to conduct archaeological investigations in New York as he violated provisions of NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). It is reported that he had skull cap ashtrays and body part adornments throughout his office, and I have included a link for this as well: http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/landmark-settlement-protects-native-burial-site
His name once again surfaced recently in the news involving an FBI investigation of another Indian grave looter/body part collector: http://www.vocativ.com/culture/art-culture/indianas-real-indiana-jones/
Question, has anyone made this link and/or explored this? There are whispered rumors in the archaeological community that Gramly was interested in both deceased young women. Please let me know what you think, as these two women and their families deserve justice, and this guy fits the m.o.

Thanks for the interesting tidbits and welcome to Ws Scrutin-eyes!

 

[DonMitchell]

I was aware of all this, but wasn't sure whether it was OK to reveal anything about it. I didn't know RMG and I'll say that RMG isn't my prime suspect, but that means nothing.

I can say that when I learned about RMG (in 1979) I forwarded that information to Lt. Joyce. I told him that the people who told me about RMG did not know whether he was in Cambridge at the time of the murder, or whether he knew or kept company at all with Jane. What Lt. Joyce did or didn't do with that information is, as usual, unavailable.

There was an article in Smithsonian Magazine, sometime later in the 1970s. It seems as though the Smithsonian Magazine's archives are not online, but I'm sure some libraries must have a collection.