WY WY - Lynn Dianne Olson, 16, Green River Lakes, 28 June 1963

  • #21
A girl who has very bad vision would be unlikely to leave her glasses behind voluntarily. I wonder if her clothes were folded and stacked, or scattered. I'd be wondering who else was staying at the dude ranch.
Agreed. It seems strange to me that her glasses and clothes were found so close to home a full month after her disappearance. And while they may have been near to the lake, I really can't imagine someone swimming in that water in June. They were still getting snow. Even by the end of July, the lake water temperatures were only 48 degrees F. That's so cold! I was so sure no one would choose to swim in that. However, I did find photos of guests swimming in the lake in this pdf of historical photos and pamphlets: https://www.sublette.com/preservati...y SCRAPBOOK scan - SCHPB 10-26-2017-small.pdf

According to page 32, there would have been accommodations for approximately 35 guests at her grandparent's dude ranch. I wonder if any of the visitors were interviewed or investigated.
 
  • #22
What a find that pamphlet is. I can't help but think this girl's disappearance wasn't investigated properly.
 
  • #23
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  • #24
Was her clothing scattered about and/or torn? Or was it carefully folded and stacked? Was there any blood on it? Why was it found a whole month after searchers would probably have been over the area? Depending on the condition and situation, her clothes could have been torn from her at the time of her disappearance and left at the scene - or they could have been taken (perhaps with her) and then returned to the woods to mislead investigators.
 
  • #25

It was a Friday evening around 6:30 that Mike said he last saw his sister walking over the footbridge at Green River Lakes.

No trace of Dianne was found during those initial searches, until a month later when her clothing was mysteriously found neatly folded on a rock about 200 yards from the edge of the lake in an area that had previously been searched.

Along with the clothing, authorities also found a partially written letter from Dianne to her boyfriend in Salt Lake City.
Was her clothing scattered about and/or torn? Or was it carefully folded and stacked? Was there any blood on it? Why was it found a whole month after searchers would probably have been over the area? Depending on the condition and situation, her clothes could have been torn from her at the time of her disappearance and left at the scene - or they could have been taken (perhaps with her) and then returned to the woods to mislead investigators.
 
  • #26

Camillia, who was 15 at the time of Dianne’s disappearance, remembers that her brother, Mike, told her that he had last seen Dianne running naked on the other side of the lake as if being chased by someone.

“He knew something was wrong,” Camillia said, “and he knew he couldn’t catch up with her, so he ran to get his horse. The two were so close, and it was really hard on him.”

Camillia now believes that her sister was being chased by a man who caught, raped and killed her.

She believes this man hid her body somewhere in the mountains.

Her father believed that it may have been a guest at the ranch, but there was no proof to tie the man to the crime.
 

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