Rosie, any luck with scanner?? .... Or is everything you gave me all that was written?
No, apparently I have to buy a new one that will work with these computers, which isn't happening right now.
What I did is I retyped both articles and next time I go to library, hopefully Thursday or Friday, I will have them scan the copies on a flashdrive for me.
Here they are:
Police investigate brutal death
by Earl Rinehart of the news Democrat
February 25, 1981
East St. Louis – police today were investigating the Tuesday evening killing of a suspected prostitute whose battered, nude body was thrown off the Poplar Street Bridge.
Killed was Sharon Hurly, 24, of 4111 Russell Blvd., St. Louis. She was known by St. Louis police to be a prostitute, said East St. Louis Detective L. C. Moore. A cause of death has not been determined.
"She had been arrested in St. Louis about three times," Moore said.
Moore said the Sauget Police Department received and anonymous call about 8:15 PM from a man who said he had just seen a body thrown off the bridge. A railroad detective discovered a body by railroad tracks near the Cahokia exit of the bridge and notified East St. Louis police.
Moore said Hurly's body had gash marks, possibly inflicted with fingernails, on the neck. Teeth marks and gashes were found on the body. The hair on her head and her pubic area had been burned.
A description of the victim was broadcast by St. Louis television stations. The man with whom Hurly was living at another south St. Louis address called her best friend, also a prostitute, and the pair came to East St. Louis about 1 AM to identified the body, Moore said.
Police spent most of the morning interviewing friends of the victim and trying to piece together a motive and identify a suspect.
Moore said the boyfriend, who was "well-known"to St. Louis police as a former drug addict, was not considered a suspect. No witnesses to the killing have come forward.
"It's impossible to tell at this point in the investigation how many people were involved," Moore said.
Police learned that Hurley had been threatened last weekend by another prostitute but did not know the reason for the threat.
Moore said he talked to the victim's father, who lives in Malden, Mass. The father said he last saw his daughter two years ago. Moore said the young woman had run away from a Massachusetts mental hospital.
From News Democrat, February 27, 1981
In brief
Woman died of strangulation
Belleville-a woman whose nude body was thrown off The Poplar St., Bridge in East St. Louis Tuesday evening was strangled before she was pushed off.
St. Clair County Coroner James Radden said chemical studies showed that injuries share and Hurly suffered in the fall were secondary to the abrasions and internal bleeding damage to her neck. Fingerprint gash marks were found on the victim's neck.
The body of the 24-year-old woman was found lying near tracks under the bridge by a railroad detective. An anonymous caller told Sauget police about 8:15 PM that he had just seen a body thrown off the bridge.
.... You can leave it just know my moms date is wrong there( I THINK LOL)
