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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:53 AM
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Suspected 1954 Boulder slaying victim found alive
A woman who Boulder authorities believed was the 1954 murder victim known as "Jane Doe" has been living in Australia for the past 46 years, the Boulder Sheriff's Department said today.

Division Chief Phil West said that in a "good news, bad news" development, Katharine Farrand Dyer is alive and well and living in Australia.

In 1954, Dyer was living at a boarding house at 1118 Washington St. in Denver. She disappeared from the boarding house on March 26, 1954.

"Jane Doe" was found in Boulder Canyon just a few days later on April 8, 1954.

West said that diligent research by Boulder author and historian Silvia Pettem, along with a "bit of dumb luck," located Dyer, 84, through an Internet contact in Queensland, Australia.


http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13169983

I've never heard of a suspected murder victim being found alive so long after the reported crime. Kind of fascinating, and probably a discovery that never would have been made without the internet.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:02 AM
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1. I find it sad that the identity of "Jane Doe"
is now a mystery - 55 years later. She was someone's loved one.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:02 AM
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2. My thoughts exactly.
Very sad.
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jdlh8894 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:06 AM
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3. Wonder what happened to
the person accused of killing her? Never found? Executed? Still in prison?
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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:25 AM
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4. No one was ever accused of the murder.
It was a closed investigation until 2004, when a local historian ask that it be reopened, which led to finding the suspected victim.

The identity of the actual victim is unknown once again, as is the identity of the killer.
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