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[ Suspenseful music plays ]
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Right here is the crime scene
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where Boulder Jane Doe
was found.
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[ Camera shutter clicking,
beeps ]
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They realized
that this was the body
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of a slender young woman.
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She was completely naked
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and had been battered
and bruised and bludgeoned.
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[ Camera shutters clicking ]
Not only were there
no clues
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as to who killed her...
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[ Camera shutters clicking ]
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...there were no clues
as to who she was.
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"Please give me back my name.
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No one knows who I am
or how I came to die."
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Pettem:
Jane Doe was someone´s daughter.
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And I thought,
"Who is this girl?
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[ Camera shutter clicking ]
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Oh, I´ll try to figure out
who she is."
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One of the researchers realized
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that there had been
a serial killer
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in the Boulder area
about the right time.
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She says, "He lived in Denver,"
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and, all of a sudden, I went,
"Oh, my gosh!"
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Finding out what happened,
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my entire family was just
in a state of shock.
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♫♫
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♫♫
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[ Piercing bird cry ]
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♫♫
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Man:
Radio check.
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Man #2:
I´m set.
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And speed.
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Pettem:
Hm.
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I don´t know what to do
with my arms.
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Marker.
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My name is Silvia Pettem
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and I research and write
about Boulder history.
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I live west of Boulder,
in the mountains.
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I came here to go to college
and I´ve been here ever since.
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That was 50 years ago, so.
[ Laughs ]
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The spirits came out
and then they will return.
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Once or twice a year,
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the historical society
in Boulder
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held what was called
Meet the Spirits.
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Reporter:
Amateur actors recount the lives
of the people buried here.
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People like me would dress up
as characters
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of people buried
in the cemetery.
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[ Laughing ]
Is it weird to be into spirits?
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Oh, I think a lot
of people think so.
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She was a professor.
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I had a big hat
and a long skirt
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and I was all decked out
in my Victorian clothes.
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And it was there that
I first learned about Jane Doe.
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A grave that is always part
of Meet the Spirits
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belongs to a young
murder victim.
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She had a small grave marker
inscribed simply with...
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The actress who portrayed her
read the following.
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"Please give me back my name.
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No one knows who I am
or how I came to die.
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Battered, beaten, and naked
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on the rocky edge
of Boulder Creek.
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My murderer, whoever he was,
was brutal and vicious.
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I was too young to die.
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Can someone tell me who I am
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and return my remains
to my family?"
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It´s sort of a plea, you know?
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You could almost feel like
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you have to go out
and solve this mystery.
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This is something that´s
somebody´s family
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has been suffering for many,
many years.
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When I first heard
the young girl say,
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"Please help me find my name,"
that just kind of struck me.
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And that "Age about 20 years,"
that hit me, as a mom,
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because, at the time,
my two daughters were 19 and 23.
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I thought,
"Who is this girl?"
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And I very naively
just sort of said,
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"Well, I´ll try to figure out
who she is."
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My main objective was
to get her name on her grave,
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so that she wouldn´t be just
a Jane Doe anymore.
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I had no idea what I was
getting into. [ Laughs ]
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I´d been writing
a history column
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for the local newspaper,
the Daily Camera,
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but at the back of my mind
was this Jane Doe.
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So I threw myself
into the era of the ´50s.
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I looked at old magazines
and watched old movies.
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If you ask me,
he seems a little odd.
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Just kind of got a feel
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for what life was like
at that time.
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So, I had access
to the Daily Camera archives.
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They had a whole drawer
of murder files.
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At the very back, under "U,"
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there was this
unidentified file
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and it was full of these
newspaper clippings
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and I just spread them all
out on a table --
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it was like
a big jigsaw puzzle --
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and kind of fit them together
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and that was the impetus
that got me going.
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Jane Doe´s body had been found
by two students
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from the University of Colorado
in early April,
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when they were hiking
along Boulder Creek.
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This was the body
of a slender young woman.
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She had strawberry blond hair.
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She was completely naked.
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She had been battered
and bruised and bludgeoned.
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She had been, probably, there
for about a week or more.
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They were not able
to get any eye color
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or fingerprint identification.
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They realized that they were
dealing with probable homicide.
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Pettem:
At first, there were
very few leads
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to who Jane Doe might´ve been.
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The Denver newspaper reported
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the inquest
from the coroner´s office
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and it mentioned the name
of the pathologist.
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His name was Freburn L. James.
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I Googled his name and there was
only one Freburn L. James
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in the entire country.
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And so I found
a phone number for him
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and I just called him up one day
and I said,
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"Are you the Freburn L. James
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who was a pathologist
in Boulder?
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Because, if you are,
we´re trying
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to find out something more
about this Jane Doe victim."
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And he said, "I´ve always
wondered about that girl.
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I have her autopsy report
right here in my living room."
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It was like, "Wow."
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The pathologist sent a copy
of the autopsy report
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and it included the fact that
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she had an appendectomy scar.
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At this point,
I felt like we were really
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building more of a case file.
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I realized I had to approach
the Boulder Police Department
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and the first detective
I spoke with
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was Detective Steve Ainsworth.
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♫♫
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Am I good?
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My name is Steve Ainsworth.
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I´m a retired homicide detective
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for the Boulder County
Sheriff´s Office.
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When I first met with Silvia,
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she had all of her ducks
in a row.
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She had times, dates,
who was involved.
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She had all
of the newspaper clippings.
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She had all of this
documentation on this homicide.
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Silvia wanted to see if there
was anything we could do
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to work this case up and see
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if we could maybe
make some progress on it
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because you have
two difficulties.
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First of all, she was murdered;
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and, second of all,
we don´t know who she is.
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Well, I had already
been working cold cases,
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so I was interested
because this would be
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the oldest one
that I had worked.
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I thought, "Yeah, we can go
somewhere on this case."
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♫♫
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This is Boulder Canyon,
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where Boulder Jane Doe was found
up here by Boulder Falls.
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And the creek runs
on this side of the roadway.
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I have to visit the crime scene.
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Because you
kind of have to get --
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you get into that mind-set
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of what it looked like,
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what does it feel like,
what does it smell like?
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You have to have all
of those things in your mind,
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so, when you´re reading
something about it,
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you´re not only visualizing,
you can live it
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because you´ve already
been there.
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If you haven´t experienced that,
then it´s just words on paper.
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♫♫
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When I first came up here,
I was thinking,
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"How did this happen?"
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So, this area, in 1954,
was a two-track dirt road.
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Is a pretty desolate place.
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Perfect place for somebody
to kill someone
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and to dump a body.
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Right here is the crime scene
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where Boulder Jane Doe
was found,
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right down here
on the creek bed.
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There´s a photo
from the newspaper on that day
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and these are the two young men
that discovered the body.
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This autopsy report tells us
it had been very cold, I think,
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so the body was somewhat frozen.
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But what´s really interesting
is the injuries.
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They´re all left-sided
and it´s from the cranium
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all the way down to the shins.
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And that gives me pause
as to why there would be
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serious injuries just
on one side of the body.
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What I´m trying to do
is correlate that in my mind.
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Do these injuries correspond
with where she was found?
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And they really don´t.
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I was pretty sure that she
wasn´t thrown over the side
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because she would´ve
had injuries all all over,
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instead of these major ones
on the left side.
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Something else had
to have happened.
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She was just left here alone
in this desolate place.
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It strengthens my resolve
to find out who she is
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and what happened.
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♫♫
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[ Suspenseful music plays ]
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I knew that we were going
to have to do an exhumation,
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to not only potentially get DNA,
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but also to examine
the injuries,
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to reconstruct and see, "Okay,
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what do these injuries
look like?"
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We needed to get
the sheriff onboard.
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♫♫
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Pelle:
[ Clears throat ]
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Man:
Second sticks.
[ Clack ]
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My name is Joe Pelle.
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I´m the sheriff
for Boulder County, Colorado.
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So, although I´ve been a cop
a very long time,
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I´ve never done an exhumation.
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I did not know exactly
what was involved with that.
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Steve Ainsworth came to me
and said that he had received
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an email from Silvia Pettem
about this case.
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Silvia was really interested
in seeing if modern technology,
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if advances with DNA,
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could make a difference
in identifying this young lady
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and, perhaps,
bring some closure to a family.
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There was some discussion,
initially,
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about how it would be funded
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and we would need, probably,
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several thousand dollars
for DNA comparison.
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And who would do the exhumation?
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I was hesitant to spend tens
of thousands of dollars
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on something I wasn´t sure
was going to pay off.
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I said, "If I raise the money
myself, would that help?"
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I wasn´t sure how I was going
to do that,
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but I kind of threw it out there
and that brought him around.
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The remarkable thing
about the case is that,
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not only were there no clues
as to how or who killed her,
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there were no clues ever
uncovered as to who she was.
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We wanted to inform the public
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to get interest in the case
in the community.
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It´s taken half a century,
but the community is, again,
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pulling together
for this unknown victim.
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It was really exciting for me
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to be part
of the press conference
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because I felt,
for the first time,
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like I was a team member.
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It was a partnership and it felt
really good to be part of that.
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Silvia contacted me
and talked about the idea
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of disinterring her body.
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That was a bit of a shock.
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I had not had to oversee
anything like that before.
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My motto is,
"Go big or go home."
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I don´t want to do an exhumation
and then think,
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"Okay, now what?"
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So, this needs to be national,
to get that exposure
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because somebody is going
to recognize this person.
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That´s why I contacted
"America´s Most Wanted"
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and said,
"Hey, this is the deal.
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We´ve got this case.
It´s 50 years old.
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We´d sure like to solve it
and you guys could help."
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Walsh:
Once again, the people
of Boulder came through.
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Not only did she raise
the money,
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but Silvia found
some forensic experts
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who were also willing to help.
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I knew that the first person
I wanted to call
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was Beth Buchholtz,
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since she worked
for the coroner´s office.
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On the day of the exhumation,
I am feeling excited.
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Not sure what
we´re going to discover.
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It´s anticipated
that the exhumation
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would take about two hours.
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The coffin would be removed
from the grave
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and then taken to a lab where
the forensic anthropologist
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would take a look at Jane Doe.
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And that that is not
how it happened. [ Laughs ]
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I spot a possible bone fragment.
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The coffin has disintegrated
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and, basically, what we have
is skeletal remains.
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We realized
that it wasn´t going to take
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just two hours
to do the exhumation.
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It became an archeological
excavation at that point.
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It was eye-opening,
what they were doing,
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the painstaking work
that was taking place.
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Beth is laying across the top
of the grave on a ladder
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and she was just
literally sweeping
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the soil away from the bones.
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Buchholtz:
It was painstaking.
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[ Beep,
camera shutter clicking ]
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But we were able to recover
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the majority
of her skeletal remains.
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♫♫
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There are 6,500 people buried
in the cemetery,
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but I had never really
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come face-to-face
with anybody before,
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so, it was moving.
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When I first looked
into the grave,
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I didn´t know what to expect,
but there were tufts of hair
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and I just felt like
I needed a connection.
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I´d been thinking about this
woman for so many years
293
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and I just reached down
and touched a bit of her hair
294
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and it may seem odd
to other people,
295
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but, to me, it was just my way
of connecting with her.
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Once we get the exhumation done,
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we take all of the remains,
we catalogue them,
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we document them,
we photograph them.
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We were able to get DNA
from the molars,
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so, we had a full profile
from that.
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If there´s anybody still living,
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like a sibling,
that we could get DNA from,
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we could try
to identify them that way.
304
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We´re looking at the injuries.
305
00:15:48,118 --> 00:15:49,418
We´re looking at the bones
306
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with forensic pathologists.
307
00:15:51,682 --> 00:15:53,222
I had always thought
it was weird,
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looking at these injuries.
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Why are they all
on the left side?
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And one of them says,
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"Those look
like bumper fractures."
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And I said, "Do you think
she was hit by a car?"
313
00:16:02,292 --> 00:16:03,962
And he said,
"Well, look at these injuries.
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They´re all in the left side.
315
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Why would that be,
unless she was hit by a car?"
316
00:16:07,638 --> 00:16:09,368
And I thought,
"Oh, my goodness."
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Now, you´re going, "Okay,
she wasn´t beat up somewhere.
318
00:16:13,303 --> 00:16:15,713
She was probably hit by a car."
319
00:16:15,706 --> 00:16:17,676
But why no clothes, and by whom?
320
00:16:21,451 --> 00:16:23,281
This is the front lobby
of the sheriff´s office
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with our historical display
and down here at the end is
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the Jane Doe display cabinet.
323
00:16:29,359 --> 00:16:32,259
A lot of items of interest
from the case.
324
00:16:32,262 --> 00:16:34,322
They put the skull
back together.
325
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This is the reconstruction
of the facial features
326
00:16:37,467 --> 00:16:40,397
and the way they believe
Jane Doe would look.
327
00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,300
[ Camera shutters clicking ]
328
00:16:45,005 --> 00:16:46,375
Hopefully, what´ll happen is
329
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somebody will recognize
this young lady
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and bring it
to the sheriff´s attention.
331
00:16:53,343 --> 00:16:55,593
It was really important
to the investigation
332
00:16:55,586 --> 00:16:58,616
to get Jane Doe´s face
out to a national audience
333
00:16:58,619 --> 00:17:01,789
and posting the Jane Doe
facial reconstruction
334
00:17:01,792 --> 00:17:05,762
on the Doe Network and also
on my own Jane Doe website.
335
00:17:05,756 --> 00:17:08,626
So, her face was going
out everywhere.
336
00:17:12,132 --> 00:17:16,312
Our working theory for Jane Doe
was she´s probably a runaway
337
00:17:16,306 --> 00:17:19,106
because we don´t have
any reports of --
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00:17:19,109 --> 00:17:22,369
local reports of missing persons
that match her description.
339
00:17:22,372 --> 00:17:26,322
We were looking
for white females in their 20s,
340
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missing during this period
of time.
341
00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:32,249
We were essentially making lists
of any young woman
342
00:17:32,252 --> 00:17:34,792
who was missing in 1954
343
00:17:34,785 --> 00:17:38,055
and then we would search
for a paper trail.
344
00:17:38,058 --> 00:17:41,258
And, obviously, if she showed up
at a later date,
345
00:17:41,261 --> 00:17:42,491
we would rule her out.
346
00:17:43,393 --> 00:17:46,573
That´s where I really brought in
the Internet into the search.
347
00:17:46,567 --> 00:17:48,337
The Jane Doe message board
348
00:17:48,338 --> 00:17:50,138
was very helpful
in bringing in leads
349
00:17:50,140 --> 00:17:52,540
and also bringing in
new researchers.
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♫♫
351
00:17:59,610 --> 00:18:02,850
My name is Karen
and I live in Michigan.
352
00:18:02,853 --> 00:18:04,663
I used to have a business
353
00:18:04,655 --> 00:18:07,785
that researched and tracked
354
00:18:07,788 --> 00:18:11,288
deadbeat dads that didn´t pay
their child support.
355
00:18:11,291 --> 00:18:14,601
I just seem to have a knack
for finding people.
356
00:18:16,296 --> 00:18:18,596
I watched
"America´s Most Wanted"
357
00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:22,199
and they had a feature
on Boulder Jane Doe,
358
00:18:22,202 --> 00:18:26,212
which I found extremely
intriguing and interesting
359
00:18:26,206 --> 00:18:29,176
and I wanted to help
and I thought I could.
360
00:18:29,179 --> 00:18:34,479
I Googled Silvia Pettem´s name
and Silvia´s website came up
361
00:18:34,484 --> 00:18:38,324
and I contacted her
and Silvia said,
362
00:18:38,318 --> 00:18:40,348
"We can take all the help
we can get."
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00:18:43,624 --> 00:18:45,904
Pettem:
Once I was working
with the other researchers,
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00:18:45,896 --> 00:18:49,556
we compiled this list
of missing young women.
365
00:18:50,460 --> 00:18:52,700
All of us spent hours every day,
366
00:18:52,703 --> 00:18:54,673
just going
through marriage records,
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00:18:54,665 --> 00:18:58,135
divorce records,
Social Security records --
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00:18:58,138 --> 00:19:00,538
anything we could find
of a paper trail.
369
00:19:01,912 --> 00:19:03,872
When the leads started
to come in,
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00:19:03,874 --> 00:19:05,554
there were times
I kind of felt like,
371
00:19:05,546 --> 00:19:06,816
up here on my mountaintop,
372
00:19:06,817 --> 00:19:08,877
it was kind of like
a control tower
373
00:19:08,879 --> 00:19:11,649
and everything was flying in
and going out.
374
00:19:11,652 --> 00:19:15,862
I thought, with this team,
it´d be solved in six months.
375
00:19:15,856 --> 00:19:17,286
[ Laughs ]
376
00:19:17,287 --> 00:19:19,427
I was pretty...
377
00:19:19,429 --> 00:19:21,889
wrong.
[ Laughs ]
378
00:19:21,892 --> 00:19:24,232
Several tips came in.
379
00:19:24,234 --> 00:19:26,374
One was a Nebraska lady.
380
00:19:26,366 --> 00:19:28,536
One was a New York lady.
381
00:19:28,539 --> 00:19:30,899
I believe one was from Oklahoma.
382
00:19:30,901 --> 00:19:36,481
They were all in the early 50s,
so, could be Boulder Jane Doe.
383
00:19:37,708 --> 00:19:40,548
Yeah, I think, you know,
at first,
384
00:19:40,551 --> 00:19:43,251
you just go,
"There can´t be that many,"
385
00:19:43,253 --> 00:19:46,393
and then you realize
there really are.
386
00:19:46,386 --> 00:19:49,756
[ Film reel rattling ]
387
00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:50,620
[ Beep ]
388
00:19:50,621 --> 00:19:55,871
♫♫
389
00:19:55,866 --> 00:19:58,226
Then you start thinking,
"What´s going on?
390
00:19:58,228 --> 00:20:02,898
How come so many are just
taking off and going?"
391
00:20:04,234 --> 00:20:05,684
And what I found was,
392
00:20:05,676 --> 00:20:09,636
back in the ´40s, ´50s,
even part of the ´60s,
393
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,980
it was very, very easy
to change your identity
394
00:20:13,984 --> 00:20:15,554
and get a new name
395
00:20:15,546 --> 00:20:18,416
and take off
and have another life.
396
00:20:18,418 --> 00:20:25,258
♫♫
397
00:20:25,255 --> 00:20:28,625
The more I read about women
that disappeared in the ´50s,
398
00:20:28,629 --> 00:20:30,829
the more I realized
that some of them may have even
399
00:20:30,831 --> 00:20:34,431
had a reason to run away,
something they were fleeing,
400
00:20:34,434 --> 00:20:36,944
and maybe they didn´t even want
to be found.
401
00:20:36,937 --> 00:20:40,707
♫♫
402
00:20:44,675 --> 00:20:46,375
[ Birds chirping ]
403
00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,650
While we were researching,
404
00:20:51,652 --> 00:20:53,982
there were two leads
that came in from Denver.
405
00:20:53,984 --> 00:20:57,634
One was a woman
that was obviously too heavy
406
00:20:57,628 --> 00:20:59,528
and the other
was Katharine Dyer.
407
00:21:02,432 --> 00:21:05,542
After that,
we all gathered together
408
00:21:05,536 --> 00:21:07,736
on our computers separately
409
00:21:07,738 --> 00:21:11,938
and just tried to find
as much as we possibly could.
410
00:21:11,942 --> 00:21:14,472
We did find that
she had been married
411
00:21:14,474 --> 00:21:18,814
and I sent off to the county
there for her marriage license.
412
00:21:18,809 --> 00:21:22,709
It listed her birth date
and her birthplace
413
00:21:22,713 --> 00:21:25,663
and the name of Farrand
as a maiden name.
414
00:21:28,058 --> 00:21:33,288
So, now, we´re all jumping
on the last name Farrand.
415
00:21:33,293 --> 00:21:37,503
I went into the different
genealogy bases
416
00:21:37,497 --> 00:21:41,427
and I tried to find anything
with Katharine Dyer.
417
00:21:45,536 --> 00:21:48,906
Ainsworth:
So, when I´m getting leads,
obviously, I go through it
418
00:21:48,909 --> 00:21:51,909
and look and see what matches,
what doesn´t.
419
00:21:51,912 --> 00:21:55,352
With Katharine Dyer, we actually
got some good information.
420
00:21:55,345 --> 00:21:56,915
She had disappeared from Denver,
421
00:21:56,917 --> 00:21:59,587
so that would give her reason
to be in Boulder
422
00:21:59,590 --> 00:22:03,320
and she was approximately the
same age as Jane Doe would be.
423
00:22:05,696 --> 00:22:09,396
Katharine´s marriage license
revealed that she was married
424
00:22:09,399 --> 00:22:13,799
to a man named Jimmie Dyer
in Arizona who had died.
425
00:22:13,804 --> 00:22:16,544
He was married three
or four times
426
00:22:16,537 --> 00:22:19,007
and I found that one
of his other wives lived
427
00:22:19,009 --> 00:22:21,869
in Denver at the time,
428
00:22:21,872 --> 00:22:25,422
so, I managed to contact her
and go visit her.
429
00:22:26,577 --> 00:22:30,417
She said that she had a lot
of his old photographs
430
00:22:30,420 --> 00:22:34,080
and I brought them all home
and spread them out on a table.
431
00:22:35,085 --> 00:22:37,085
And, suddenly,
there was a picture
432
00:22:37,087 --> 00:22:38,957
of an attractive
young woman standing
433
00:22:38,959 --> 00:22:41,929
at the very edge
of the Grand Canyon
434
00:22:41,932 --> 00:22:43,932
and one of them just said,
"Katharine."
435
00:22:43,934 --> 00:22:50,704
♫♫
436
00:22:50,701 --> 00:22:52,501
I immediately took
the photograph
437
00:22:52,503 --> 00:22:54,883
to the sheriff´s office
and they made copies.
438
00:22:54,875 --> 00:22:56,875
[ Whirring ]
439
00:22:56,877 --> 00:22:59,407
We had a face of Katharine.
440
00:23:02,783 --> 00:23:07,823
The fact that she just seemed
to disappear into thin air
441
00:23:07,818 --> 00:23:11,388
kind of made it seem
more apt that
442
00:23:11,391 --> 00:23:13,621
she was going to be
Boulder Jane Doe.
443
00:23:14,995 --> 00:23:16,995
She had had a falling out
with her family,
444
00:23:16,997 --> 00:23:18,697
had run away at the time,
445
00:23:18,699 --> 00:23:22,769
and her photo
was strikingly similar
446
00:23:22,773 --> 00:23:24,543
to the skull reconstruction.
447
00:23:25,736 --> 00:23:27,836
Sheriff Pelle himself
suggested that we do
448
00:23:27,838 --> 00:23:30,178
what was called
a superimposition,
449
00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:34,080
where the image of Katharine
would be superimposed
450
00:23:34,084 --> 00:23:36,894
on an image of the
facial reconstruction
451
00:23:36,887 --> 00:23:38,687
of Boulder Jane Doe.
452
00:23:38,689 --> 00:23:40,449
It was all done on computers,
453
00:23:40,450 --> 00:23:43,490
but they put the image
of Katharine
454
00:23:43,493 --> 00:23:47,163
right over the image
of the facial reconstruction
455
00:23:47,157 --> 00:23:52,827
and it matched so closely,
I was really excited.
456
00:23:52,833 --> 00:23:55,613
I thought, "This has got
to be our Jane Doe."
457
00:23:55,606 --> 00:23:59,906
[ Melancholy tune plays ]
458
00:23:59,910 --> 00:24:02,970
We were hoping that, once we
figure out who Jane Doe was,
459
00:24:02,973 --> 00:24:07,023
we´d have some more clues
as to who killed her.
460
00:24:07,017 --> 00:24:11,777
One of the researchers just put
in an email one day and said,
461
00:24:11,782 --> 00:24:13,682
"Have you ever considered
Harvey Glatman
462
00:24:13,684 --> 00:24:15,464
as being the possible murderer?"
463
00:24:15,455 --> 00:24:16,685
[ Mouse clicking ]
464
00:24:16,687 --> 00:24:18,657
And I hadn´t ever even heard
465
00:24:18,659 --> 00:24:19,729
of Harvey Glatman.
466
00:24:19,730 --> 00:24:25,070
♫♫
467
00:24:25,065 --> 00:24:28,465
Ainsworth:
I had known about Harvey Glatman
for a long time.
468
00:24:28,468 --> 00:24:30,568
Just a fascinating case.
469
00:24:30,571 --> 00:24:32,471
He was identified by the FBI
470
00:24:32,472 --> 00:24:34,712
as one of the first
serial killers,
471
00:24:34,705 --> 00:24:37,175
but I´m thinking, no,
he´s in Southern California.
472
00:24:37,177 --> 00:24:39,077
[ Romantic tune plays ]
473
00:24:39,079 --> 00:24:46,159
♫♫
474
00:24:46,156 --> 00:24:47,856
My name is Rick Jackson.
475
00:24:47,858 --> 00:24:50,918
I´m a retired
LAPD homicide detective.
476
00:24:53,163 --> 00:24:54,833
Harvey Glatman was born
477
00:24:54,825 --> 00:24:56,895
in the Bronx area
of New York City.
478
00:24:56,897 --> 00:24:58,827
Seemed to be
kind of a mama´s boy.
479
00:24:58,829 --> 00:25:00,269
His mom always took care of him,
480
00:25:00,270 --> 00:25:02,700
even after he started getting
into trouble.
481
00:25:02,703 --> 00:25:07,813
And, in January 1957,
he decides to move to L.A.
482
00:25:07,808 --> 00:25:09,978
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
[ Streetcar bell rings ]
483
00:25:09,980 --> 00:25:13,110
He went right
to the Hollywood area,
484
00:25:13,113 --> 00:25:16,253
like a half a mile
from Paramount Studios.
485
00:25:16,246 --> 00:25:18,946
A lot of beautiful women coming
in and out of there.
486
00:25:18,949 --> 00:25:21,189
It was near
the modeling agencies.
487
00:25:22,923 --> 00:25:24,563
He had a pretty unique MO.
488
00:25:25,656 --> 00:25:29,556
He would tell his prospective
victims he was a photographer.
489
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,530
Back then, there were
pulp fiction magazines.
490
00:25:33,534 --> 00:25:35,814
I know one was called
True Detective.
491
00:25:35,806 --> 00:25:37,066
It was a lot of photographs,
492
00:25:37,067 --> 00:25:39,537
a lot of them
in bondage situations,
493
00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:41,640
women tied up and bound.
494
00:25:41,642 --> 00:25:44,552
And so, when he would
broach these women,
495
00:25:44,545 --> 00:25:46,745
he would use that as a gimmick
496
00:25:46,747 --> 00:25:51,817
to get them to start
to let him tie them up
497
00:25:51,822 --> 00:25:53,252
and then he would
take photographs.
498
00:25:56,186 --> 00:25:58,586
He would then rape
and murder them.
499
00:26:01,632 --> 00:26:04,332
All three murder victims
in Southern California
500
00:26:04,334 --> 00:26:06,874
were all tied up, bound.
501
00:26:06,867 --> 00:26:08,297
All young.
502
00:26:08,298 --> 00:26:11,238
They range from 19 to 24.
503
00:26:11,241 --> 00:26:13,941
Two of the three were interested
in modeling,
504
00:26:13,944 --> 00:26:16,114
you know, wanted to get
a chance in the business.
505
00:26:22,713 --> 00:26:24,313
And then the downfall started.
506
00:26:25,786 --> 00:26:28,756
In October,
he met Lorraine Vigil
507
00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:31,119
through a modeling agency
508
00:26:31,121 --> 00:26:32,961
and this was her
first assignment.
509
00:26:35,195 --> 00:26:39,325
He said he had arranged
to have a studio in Anaheim
510
00:26:39,329 --> 00:26:42,169
to photograph her,
so we were driving down
511
00:26:42,172 --> 00:26:45,882
and, at some point,
he pulled off the road.
512
00:26:45,876 --> 00:26:49,206
He displayed a gun
and she fought.
513
00:26:49,209 --> 00:26:50,809
She wasn´t going to get tied up.
514
00:26:52,142 --> 00:26:54,342
And, fortunately for her,
515
00:26:54,344 --> 00:26:57,694
a California Highway Patrol
officer was driving on this road
516
00:26:57,688 --> 00:27:01,348
and saw the struggle going on
outside of the car.
517
00:27:01,351 --> 00:27:03,751
and that led
to Glatman´s arrest.
518
00:27:03,754 --> 00:27:11,064
♫♫
519
00:27:11,061 --> 00:27:14,001
♫♫
520
00:27:14,004 --> 00:27:17,844
[ Melancholy tune plays ]
521
00:27:17,838 --> 00:27:19,138
[ Meows ]
522
00:27:19,970 --> 00:27:23,170
I kind of went back
into my research mode here
523
00:27:23,173 --> 00:27:24,923
of local history
524
00:27:24,915 --> 00:27:28,175
and tried to find as much
as I possibly could about him.
525
00:27:31,351 --> 00:27:33,951
I get a phone call from Silvia
526
00:27:33,954 --> 00:27:35,834
and she tells me
about Harvey Glatman.
527
00:27:35,826 --> 00:27:37,886
Lived in Denver.
528
00:27:37,888 --> 00:27:39,328
He was born in New York,
529
00:27:39,329 --> 00:27:41,229
but his family moved to Denver
530
00:27:41,231 --> 00:27:44,231
when he was a teenager in 1945.
531
00:27:44,234 --> 00:27:48,144
And all of a sudden, I went,
"Oh, my gosh!
532
00:27:48,138 --> 00:27:49,398
Are you kidding me?"
533
00:27:49,399 --> 00:27:50,939
Narrator:
Only a few minutes away
534
00:27:50,941 --> 00:27:52,271
from Broomfield Heights
535
00:27:52,272 --> 00:27:53,942
are the great
recreational areas
536
00:27:53,944 --> 00:27:55,254
of Boulder, Colorado.
537
00:27:55,245 --> 00:27:56,275
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
538
00:27:56,276 --> 00:27:58,006
One of the most startling things
539
00:27:58,008 --> 00:27:59,708
about Harvey Glatman is
540
00:27:59,710 --> 00:28:02,980
that one of his
very first arrests came
541
00:28:02,983 --> 00:28:06,823
from a woman that he abducted
right here in Boulder.
542
00:28:08,018 --> 00:28:10,688
He kind of kidnapped her
off the street
543
00:28:10,691 --> 00:28:14,361
and made her walk up into the
mountains and molested her.
544
00:28:16,166 --> 00:28:18,226
Ainsworth:
He had taken her
up Sunshine Canyon,
545
00:28:18,228 --> 00:28:20,268
which is the next canyon north.
546
00:28:20,270 --> 00:28:22,230
He tied her up
and kept her for the night.
547
00:28:26,306 --> 00:28:29,776
Pettem:
He served some time in the
state penitentiary for that.
548
00:28:31,041 --> 00:28:35,421
And he spent the years 1951
to 1957
549
00:28:35,415 --> 00:28:39,015
living in Denver, actually,
with his parents
550
00:28:39,019 --> 00:28:42,849
and it was during that time
that Jane Doe´s body was found.
551
00:28:44,925 --> 00:28:49,225
And so, Jane Doe, in looking
at the autopsy photographs,
552
00:28:49,229 --> 00:28:52,499
I see this mark
on her left wrist area,
553
00:28:52,503 --> 00:28:55,843
so I had a renowned pathologist
look at it
554
00:28:55,836 --> 00:28:57,506
and I said, "Do you think
that´s a ligature mark?"
555
00:28:57,508 --> 00:29:00,938
And he looked and he said,
"Yeah, that´s a ligature mark."
556
00:29:00,941 --> 00:29:03,841
So, that fits with his MO.
557
00:29:03,844 --> 00:29:07,484
So, now, I´m excited about going
after Harvey Glatman
558
00:29:07,477 --> 00:29:10,347
and see if we can put the two
of them together.
559
00:29:10,350 --> 00:29:14,050
♫♫
560
00:29:16,356 --> 00:29:19,486
[ Birds chirping ]
561
00:29:19,489 --> 00:29:21,829
On both the Jane Doe
message board,
562
00:29:21,832 --> 00:29:23,362
as well as the Doe Network,
563
00:29:23,363 --> 00:29:26,773
we posted information
that we believed,
564
00:29:26,767 --> 00:29:28,197
at this point in our research,
565
00:29:28,198 --> 00:29:30,868
that Katharine Dyer
was probably Jane Doe,
566
00:29:30,871 --> 00:29:34,041
but we still couldn´t find
any family members.
567
00:29:36,006 --> 00:29:37,546
All of a sudden,
I got an email
568
00:29:37,548 --> 00:29:39,878
and it was from someone
I didn´t know.
569
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,880
It just said, "Hi, Silvia.
570
00:29:41,882 --> 00:29:44,862
We have information
about Katharine.
571
00:29:44,855 --> 00:29:47,385
You may need to be sitting down
when you read this."
572
00:29:52,122 --> 00:29:54,802
Two ladies in Australia,
573
00:29:54,795 --> 00:29:58,465
they had been taking care
of this lady, Barbara,
574
00:29:58,468 --> 00:30:01,298
and, now, she was getting ready
to go to a nursing home
575
00:30:01,301 --> 00:30:04,171
and they had found stuff
in her bedroom
576
00:30:04,174 --> 00:30:05,514
when they were cleaning it out.
577
00:30:07,107 --> 00:30:10,077
They found divorce papers
578
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:15,820
for a Katharine Dyer
and a James Dyer
579
00:30:15,816 --> 00:30:21,146
and they Googled the name
and see that it´s this big case.
580
00:30:25,025 --> 00:30:28,055
The email just said,
"Katharine is in Australia
581
00:30:28,058 --> 00:30:29,528
she is living in my house.
582
00:30:30,561 --> 00:30:33,361
We have the separation
and divorce documents...
583
00:30:33,363 --> 00:30:35,343
We had no idea
she was a missing person
584
00:30:35,335 --> 00:30:37,935
until we put her name
in a search."
585
00:30:37,938 --> 00:30:40,338
It turned out that Katharine
really was alive.
586
00:30:40,340 --> 00:30:42,440
She was living
under another name.
587
00:30:42,442 --> 00:30:44,442
She was known
as Barbara Thompson.
588
00:30:47,047 --> 00:30:51,317
What we have here is a person
that got married,
589
00:30:51,321 --> 00:30:56,231
skipped out on a divorce,
moved to Hawaii,
590
00:30:56,226 --> 00:30:58,256
then jumped on a boat
591
00:30:58,258 --> 00:31:01,228
[ Whistle blowing ]
and sailed to Australia
592
00:31:01,231 --> 00:31:04,571
and, poof! Gets off the boat
and, now, she´s Barbara.
593
00:31:07,097 --> 00:31:10,097
She just kept
reinventing herself.
594
00:31:12,202 --> 00:31:13,942
Your stomach just drops.
595
00:31:13,944 --> 00:31:16,884
You just like, "Oh, my God,"
you know?
596
00:31:16,877 --> 00:31:18,907
"We´re just back at square one."
597
00:31:21,251 --> 00:31:23,511
Once we learned
that Katharine Farrand Dyer
598
00:31:23,514 --> 00:31:26,464
was not Jane Doe,
it was kind of deflating.
599
00:31:26,456 --> 00:31:29,886
We just didn´t know where
to go next.
600
00:31:29,890 --> 00:31:31,260
It was back
to the drawing board.
601
00:31:31,261 --> 00:31:36,901
♫♫
602
00:31:36,897 --> 00:31:38,167
[ Birds chirping ]
603
00:31:38,168 --> 00:31:41,128
[ Melancholy tune plays ]
604
00:31:41,131 --> 00:31:43,531
♫♫
605
00:31:43,534 --> 00:31:45,944
Reilly-McNellan:
Following the disinterment,
606
00:31:45,936 --> 00:31:47,936
there were a lot of studies
that were done --
607
00:31:47,938 --> 00:31:51,108
a DNA, facial reconstruction,
and so forth --
608
00:31:51,111 --> 00:31:55,421
but, unfortunately, one lead
after another dissolved
609
00:31:55,415 --> 00:32:00,015
and we did want to return
the remains to the cemetery.
610
00:32:00,020 --> 00:32:04,930
♫♫
611
00:32:04,925 --> 00:32:08,125
We decided that it was
probably time to rebury her.
612
00:32:11,361 --> 00:32:13,431
We had become
her extended family.
613
00:32:15,035 --> 00:32:17,165
Reilly-McNellan:
It was pretty somber.
614
00:32:17,167 --> 00:32:21,007
We thought, for sure, we would
find out who this person was.
615
00:32:22,142 --> 00:32:25,422
Instead, we were burying
these unknown remains
616
00:32:25,415 --> 00:32:28,115
of someone that we weren´t able
to identify.
617
00:32:35,025 --> 00:32:36,385
[ Alert chimes ]
618
00:32:36,386 --> 00:32:38,226
One day, late at night,
619
00:32:38,228 --> 00:32:40,058
I was just about to go to sleep
620
00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:44,640
and I got an email
from a young woman in Wisconsin
621
00:32:44,635 --> 00:32:48,535
and it said, "I think my
great-aunt might be Jane Doe."
622
00:32:48,539 --> 00:32:51,539
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
623
00:32:51,542 --> 00:32:56,312
♫♫
624
00:32:56,306 --> 00:32:58,346
Kasper:
Dot´s there in the middle.
625
00:32:58,348 --> 00:33:02,178
My name is Michelle Kasper
and I´m from Madison, Wisconsin.
626
00:33:02,182 --> 00:33:09,262
As a young child, I pretty much
lived with my great-aunt Deanie.
627
00:33:09,259 --> 00:33:11,219
She´s technically my great-aunt,
628
00:33:11,221 --> 00:33:14,571
but she was more
of my mother figure.
629
00:33:16,496 --> 00:33:18,266
When I was about 12 years old,
630
00:33:18,268 --> 00:33:22,228
I found a photo album
in Deanie´s basement
631
00:33:22,232 --> 00:33:26,482
and so there were all these
amazing pictures of Deanie,
632
00:33:26,476 --> 00:33:28,776
my grandmother,
and their oldest sister,
633
00:33:28,779 --> 00:33:32,739
looking fabulous
as teenagers --
634
00:33:32,743 --> 00:33:35,553
Dot, Bobbie, and Deanie.
635
00:33:35,546 --> 00:33:38,416
Deanie had two older sisters.
636
00:33:38,418 --> 00:33:40,788
Her oldest sister
was Dorothy Gay,
637
00:33:40,791 --> 00:33:42,221
also known as Dot,
638
00:33:42,222 --> 00:33:45,102
who I had been told
had gone missing
639
00:33:45,095 --> 00:33:47,055
when they were growing up.
640
00:33:48,028 --> 00:33:50,398
This photo is in 1953
641
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,500
and it´s actually
the last photograph
642
00:33:52,503 --> 00:33:55,443
of the Howard girls together.
643
00:33:55,435 --> 00:33:57,635
Despite it being a sad photo,
644
00:33:57,638 --> 00:33:59,608
because it´s the last one
of them together,
645
00:33:59,610 --> 00:34:01,570
it´s also bittersweet,
646
00:34:01,572 --> 00:34:04,472
the three girls together smiling
and happy in front of a new car.
647
00:34:09,419 --> 00:34:10,349
They´re so old.
648
00:34:11,321 --> 00:34:16,691
Dorothy and her sisters all
grew up on a farm in Arizona.
649
00:34:18,088 --> 00:34:19,528
There were a lot of stories
650
00:34:19,530 --> 00:34:23,090
of Dot being the boss
of the show.
651
00:34:24,765 --> 00:34:27,065
Deanie had mentioned
that Dot was
652
00:34:27,067 --> 00:34:30,437
the most rebellious
of the three.
653
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,440
She was pretty notorious
for running away.
654
00:34:33,443 --> 00:34:37,613
Years later, Dot lied
about her age to get married.
655
00:34:37,608 --> 00:34:39,148
That marriage was annulled.
656
00:34:41,181 --> 00:34:43,851
So, when Dot went missing
in 1953,
657
00:34:43,854 --> 00:34:47,324
she would´ve been 17,
almost 18 years old.
658
00:34:49,119 --> 00:34:52,659
I asked Deanie where she thought
Dot might have been
659
00:34:52,663 --> 00:34:56,333
and Deanie said
that she thought Dot
660
00:34:56,326 --> 00:34:59,596
had run away
and gotten married, again.
661
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:00,800
Dot wanted a different life.
662
00:35:00,801 --> 00:35:02,631
Dot wanted to have more money
663
00:35:02,633 --> 00:35:05,183
and to not, you know,
live on a farm.
664
00:35:06,707 --> 00:35:10,537
She was just a very
strong-willed, determined woman.
665
00:35:11,712 --> 00:35:14,442
At the same time,
I was also a teenager
666
00:35:14,444 --> 00:35:17,524
who was rebelling
and feeling like
667
00:35:17,518 --> 00:35:19,718
Dot and I would´ve
gotten along really well.
668
00:35:21,121 --> 00:35:24,831
I had zero investigation
experience.
669
00:35:24,825 --> 00:35:28,195
My initial search for Dot
really consisted
670
00:35:28,198 --> 00:35:33,728
of me looking up Dorothy Howard,
Dorothy Gay Howard,
671
00:35:33,734 --> 00:35:35,814
and looking for phone numbers
672
00:35:35,806 --> 00:35:40,166
for women that had those names
and calling them.
673
00:35:41,171 --> 00:35:43,641
Most of them were very kind
and would say, you know,
674
00:35:43,644 --> 00:35:44,784
"No, I´m sorry.
675
00:35:44,775 --> 00:35:45,775
It isn´t me."
676
00:35:47,878 --> 00:35:53,418
After I began my search for Dot,
a close friend of mine told me
677
00:35:53,423 --> 00:35:55,563
about a website called
the Doe Network.
678
00:35:59,289 --> 00:36:03,489
When I expanded my search
outside of Arizona,
679
00:36:03,493 --> 00:36:06,773
I was looking
at hundreds of listings.
680
00:36:08,238 --> 00:36:13,498
And then I came
across Jane Doe number UFC333.
681
00:36:15,175 --> 00:36:17,375
This was a young woman
that was found
682
00:36:17,377 --> 00:36:21,907
in Boulder, Colorado, in 1954.
683
00:36:21,912 --> 00:36:25,422
The physical description
matched very closely
684
00:36:25,415 --> 00:36:28,485
to the description
of what Dot had looked like
685
00:36:28,488 --> 00:36:30,588
at the time she disappeared,
686
00:36:30,591 --> 00:36:34,391
specifically,
the height being around 5´4",
687
00:36:34,394 --> 00:36:36,974
her weight being close
to 100 pounds.
688
00:36:38,298 --> 00:36:39,898
The Doe Network also listed
689
00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:43,330
that this Jane Doe had a scar
from an appendectomy.
690
00:36:45,235 --> 00:36:47,505
I reached out
to my great-aunt Deanie
691
00:36:47,508 --> 00:36:51,808
and asked her if she knew
if Dot had had any surgeries.
692
00:36:51,812 --> 00:36:56,422
Deanie said yes and that
she remembered very clearly
693
00:36:56,416 --> 00:36:58,686
that Dot had
had her appendix removed.
694
00:37:00,521 --> 00:37:04,901
And so I start searching
Boulder Jane Doe
695
00:37:04,895 --> 00:37:08,225
and I´m getting a lot
of hits off of Google
696
00:37:08,228 --> 00:37:11,758
coming back to a woman
named Silvia Pettem
697
00:37:11,762 --> 00:37:14,002
and so I sent her an email.
698
00:37:16,306 --> 00:37:17,666
After I got Michelle´s email,
699
00:37:17,668 --> 00:37:20,308
I was so excited,
I wrote her back right away.
700
00:37:20,310 --> 00:37:22,740
We immediately started talking
on the phone.
701
00:37:23,714 --> 00:37:26,684
Ainsworth:
I get an email from Silvia
about this Michelle.
702
00:37:26,677 --> 00:37:28,947
She says, "I think we need
to follow this up," and I said,
"I do, too."
703
00:37:28,949 --> 00:37:31,819
Michelle told me that there was
a surviving sister
704
00:37:31,822 --> 00:37:33,622
who lived in Arkansas,
705
00:37:33,624 --> 00:37:36,294
so there would be a way
to compare DNA.
706
00:37:37,287 --> 00:37:39,427
So, I sent the
Arkansas State Police out
707
00:37:39,429 --> 00:37:43,459
and they were able to get swabs,
which I then sent to the lab
708
00:37:43,463 --> 00:37:45,373
which had done
the DNA extraction
709
00:37:45,365 --> 00:37:46,795
on the molars from Jane Doe.
710
00:37:47,868 --> 00:37:50,638
And then we waited
for the results.
711
00:37:50,641 --> 00:37:55,411
♫♫
712
00:37:59,409 --> 00:38:00,779
[ Bright tune plays ]
713
00:38:00,781 --> 00:38:03,681
The Boulder Jane Doe case
became an obsession.
714
00:38:05,686 --> 00:38:07,916
You know,
you work very feverishly,
715
00:38:07,918 --> 00:38:10,058
especially when you first start,
716
00:38:10,060 --> 00:38:13,760
then, all of a sudden,
it´s four or five years later,
717
00:38:13,764 --> 00:38:15,534
but you don´t let go.
718
00:38:19,069 --> 00:38:21,469
Ainsworth:
We were pretty excited
about the DNA.
719
00:38:21,471 --> 00:38:24,541
It could be her, but this could
just be another dead end.
720
00:38:26,006 --> 00:38:28,836
Pettem:
I was just in suspense
every day.
721
00:38:28,839 --> 00:38:30,509
It was only a matter of weeks.
722
00:38:30,511 --> 00:38:31,941
It seemed like years.
[ Laughs ]
723
00:38:34,845 --> 00:38:37,645
I got a phone call from the lab
724
00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:40,418
and the lab director herself
said, "Are you sitting down?"
725
00:38:41,522 --> 00:38:43,792
And I said, [ Laughing ]
"Oh, no, it isn´t."
726
00:38:43,794 --> 00:38:46,434
She said,
"Yep, that´s her sister."
727
00:38:46,426 --> 00:38:48,026
Holy crap!
728
00:38:48,028 --> 00:38:49,458
I know who she is!
729
00:38:49,459 --> 00:38:50,859
She´s Dorothy Gay Howard.
730
00:38:51,802 --> 00:38:55,942
Jane Doe is Dorothy Gay Howard
from Arizona,
731
00:38:55,936 --> 00:38:57,866
a runaway that came to Colorado.
732
00:38:59,009 --> 00:38:59,869
It all matched.
733
00:39:00,671 --> 00:39:02,811
It began in 1996,
734
00:39:02,813 --> 00:39:06,483
when Silvia first heard
the story of Jane Doe,
735
00:39:06,476 --> 00:39:09,046
and, in 2009,
736
00:39:09,049 --> 00:39:12,419
we got confirmation
that there was a match
737
00:39:12,422 --> 00:39:15,692
and I was very happy for Silvia.
738
00:39:15,686 --> 00:39:17,486
You could´ve knocked me over
with a feather.
739
00:39:17,487 --> 00:39:26,367
♫♫
740
00:39:26,366 --> 00:39:28,366
I had a mixture
of emotions that day.
741
00:39:28,368 --> 00:39:34,808
I was relieved that we´d finally
solved the identity of Jane Doe,
742
00:39:34,805 --> 00:39:36,805
but I was very sad
for the family
743
00:39:36,807 --> 00:39:38,407
because they had no idea
744
00:39:38,408 --> 00:39:41,108
that she had suffered
such a horrible death.
745
00:39:41,111 --> 00:39:43,811
[ Melancholy tune plays ]
746
00:39:43,814 --> 00:39:46,494
♫♫
747
00:39:46,486 --> 00:39:50,656
I had been wholly unprepared
for the feelings
748
00:39:50,661 --> 00:39:52,891
that would come
with the identification.
749
00:39:54,164 --> 00:39:58,974
My great-aunt was grieving
and, perhaps, feeling some guilt
750
00:39:58,969 --> 00:40:00,469
that, for decades,
751
00:40:00,470 --> 00:40:03,000
she had thought her sister
had run away
752
00:40:03,003 --> 00:40:06,743
and, now, she´s learning that
her sister wasn´t coming home,
753
00:40:06,737 --> 00:40:09,007
not because she didn´t want
to be a part of the family,
754
00:40:09,009 --> 00:40:11,709
but, instead, she had been
brutally murdered.
755
00:40:11,712 --> 00:40:18,092
♫♫
756
00:40:18,088 --> 00:40:18,948
Woman:
Okay?
757
00:40:18,949 --> 00:40:19,819
Yeah.
758
00:40:21,622 --> 00:40:24,732
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
[ Crickets chirping ]
759
00:40:24,725 --> 00:40:26,955
The first time I saw
the photograph
760
00:40:26,957 --> 00:40:29,427
of Dorothy Gay Howard,
761
00:40:29,429 --> 00:40:32,599
I mean, she was just
glamorous, beautiful.
762
00:40:32,603 --> 00:40:35,613
It was like being reunited
with someone in my family
763
00:40:35,606 --> 00:40:38,636
because I had felt that close
to her all these years.
764
00:40:39,510 --> 00:40:41,510
But we needed to know more.
765
00:40:41,512 --> 00:40:42,742
I needed to know more.
766
00:40:45,475 --> 00:40:48,475
Ainsworth:
Once the DNA comes back
and we know who she is,
767
00:40:48,478 --> 00:40:50,478
then I start
piecing things together.
768
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,120
I find out that she´s just
on the tail end
769
00:40:53,123 --> 00:40:55,563
of her second marriage
and she´s 19 years old.
770
00:40:56,486 --> 00:40:59,756
And she has a great-aunt named
Ola Mae who lived in Denver.
771
00:41:01,762 --> 00:41:03,692
And I find an address
for her aunt
772
00:41:03,694 --> 00:41:05,904
and I look at her and go,
"Oh, my!"
773
00:41:05,896 --> 00:41:08,966
So, you go up like a block
from Harvey´s house,
774
00:41:08,969 --> 00:41:11,769
a block north, hang a left,
and you´re at her house.
775
00:41:13,243 --> 00:41:15,883
He lived about 3.1 miles
away from her.
776
00:41:17,978 --> 00:41:20,708
He was in the right place
at the right time
777
00:41:20,711 --> 00:41:22,151
to have committed this crime.
778
00:41:22,152 --> 00:41:25,992
[ Siren wailing in distance ]
779
00:41:29,159 --> 00:41:31,689
Ainsworth:
Working with the cold case
homicide detectives
780
00:41:31,692 --> 00:41:33,222
in Southern California,
781
00:41:33,223 --> 00:41:36,503
I ended up getting a transcript
of the interview
782
00:41:36,496 --> 00:41:40,066
between Harvey Glatman
and the detectives on the case.
783
00:41:43,233 --> 00:41:47,513
And LAPD asks him
about abducting women in Denver
784
00:41:47,508 --> 00:41:48,978
in the early 1950s.
785
00:41:48,979 --> 00:41:51,679
And so they ask him,
"Now, these women,
786
00:41:51,682 --> 00:41:53,282
are they all still alive?"
787
00:41:53,283 --> 00:41:54,793
And he said...
788
00:41:56,747 --> 00:41:57,617
Why would he say that?
789
00:41:59,219 --> 00:42:02,819
That ties in with
she was hit with a car.
790
00:42:02,823 --> 00:42:04,533
To kind of prove this to myself,
791
00:42:04,525 --> 00:42:08,225
I measured all of the injuries
that Dot had on her.
792
00:42:08,228 --> 00:42:12,058
I found out what kind of a car
Harvey Glatman was driving.
793
00:42:12,062 --> 00:42:15,912
It was a 1952
Dodge Coronet Clubman Coupe
794
00:42:15,906 --> 00:42:21,036
and I found one fully restored
in an establishment in New York.
795
00:42:21,041 --> 00:42:23,141
He sent me the measurements
the next day.
796
00:42:23,143 --> 00:42:25,723
Every single one of those
measurements corresponded
797
00:42:25,716 --> 00:42:28,176
with the injuries Dot had
on her left side.
798
00:42:30,951 --> 00:42:32,851
When I was looking
at Harvey Glatman,
799
00:42:32,853 --> 00:42:34,763
one of the murders
in Southern California,
800
00:42:34,755 --> 00:42:38,885
he had tied her up and taken her
to where they were going to go
801
00:42:38,889 --> 00:42:40,929
and then he made her undress.
802
00:42:40,931 --> 00:42:42,931
Boulder Canyon, at that time,
803
00:42:42,933 --> 00:42:44,843
was way out in the middle
of nowhere.
804
00:42:44,835 --> 00:42:46,965
And I theorized
he ties Dorothy Gay
805
00:42:46,967 --> 00:42:49,097
and takes the whole ride
up there
806
00:42:49,099 --> 00:42:52,639
and then unties her
and tells her, "Get undressed."
807
00:42:52,643 --> 00:42:54,173
Dot jumps out of the car.
808
00:42:54,174 --> 00:42:57,054
The direction that she´s going
to run is downhill.
809
00:42:57,047 --> 00:42:58,107
She runs downhill.
810
00:42:58,108 --> 00:43:00,108
He goes after her with his car
811
00:43:00,110 --> 00:43:02,010
and he hits her with his car
812
00:43:02,012 --> 00:43:04,862
and she ends up down the
embankment on Boulder Creek.
813
00:43:06,957 --> 00:43:07,987
No clothing.
814
00:43:07,988 --> 00:43:09,158
Only pins in her hair.
815
00:43:10,861 --> 00:43:15,071
We´ll never be 100% sure
because there´s no DNA
816
00:43:15,065 --> 00:43:18,595
that´s going to be involved
in connecting these cases,
817
00:43:18,599 --> 00:43:21,329
but just all those factors
and him just being in that area,
818
00:43:21,331 --> 00:43:23,701
having those type
of proclivities,
819
00:43:23,704 --> 00:43:25,044
all point toward Glatman.
820
00:43:25,035 --> 00:43:32,035
♫♫
821
00:43:32,042 --> 00:43:35,292
♫♫
822
00:43:35,285 --> 00:43:38,015
The problem is the pieces
that are necessary
823
00:43:38,018 --> 00:43:40,648
to actually put a case together,
they´re just not there.
824
00:43:40,651 --> 00:43:43,191
[ Melancholy tune plays ]
825
00:43:43,193 --> 00:43:45,103
You know, Harvey´s long gone.
826
00:43:45,095 --> 00:43:48,025
There´s no way to actually
physically tie him
827
00:43:48,028 --> 00:43:49,828
into the case or prove it
828
00:43:49,830 --> 00:43:51,330
and I´m not sure
we´re ever going to know.
829
00:43:52,202 --> 00:43:55,212
[ Birds chirping ]
830
00:43:55,205 --> 00:44:00,105
For me, who did this to Dot
has yet to be answered
831
00:44:00,110 --> 00:44:03,410
and so, for me,
there hasn´t been any closure.
832
00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:14,215
♫♫
833
00:44:14,224 --> 00:44:16,094
My family learned just how much
834
00:44:16,086 --> 00:44:18,126
Boulder had loved
and cared for her.
835
00:44:20,430 --> 00:44:23,390
My great-aunt Deanie
made the decision
836
00:44:23,393 --> 00:44:28,403
that she wanted Dorothy
to remain in Boulder.
837
00:44:28,398 --> 00:44:30,938
I was really pleased
that the family decided
838
00:44:30,941 --> 00:44:33,171
to leave her in Boulder
because she had really
839
00:44:33,173 --> 00:44:34,853
become part of our history.
840
00:44:36,406 --> 00:44:38,406
Thinking back
on how long it took
841
00:44:38,408 --> 00:44:43,148
to find the identity of Dorothy,
it was a chunk of my life.
842
00:44:44,184 --> 00:44:46,424
And it may sound strange
to say it,
843
00:44:46,416 --> 00:44:48,886
but maybe her spirit
was contacting me
844
00:44:48,889 --> 00:44:51,319
in some way
to carry on this work.
845
00:44:51,321 --> 00:44:57,371
♫♫
846
00:44:57,367 --> 00:44:59,227
The beginning of my search
for Dot
847
00:44:59,229 --> 00:45:01,429
was me,
as a rebellious teenager,
848
00:45:01,431 --> 00:45:04,101
relating to somebody
in my family
849
00:45:04,104 --> 00:45:06,484
who I thought was very similar.
850
00:45:06,476 --> 00:45:09,876
And, at this point, I was 24
851
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:14,140
and was beginning a life
and a family
852
00:45:14,144 --> 00:45:19,154
and was recognizing how much Dot
really missed out on.
853
00:45:21,822 --> 00:45:26,962
The emotions were really
overwhelming and unexpected,
854
00:45:26,957 --> 00:45:29,757
especially since
I had never met Dot,
855
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,330
but I had loved and searched
for her all of those years.
856
00:45:33,333 --> 00:45:40,173
♫♫
857
00:45:40,170 --> 00:45:50,180
♫♫
858
00:45:50,180 --> 00:46:00,190
♫♫
859
00:46:00,190 --> 00:46:10,200
♫♫
860
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:16,050
♫♫
861
00:46:25,155 --> 00:46:28,085
♫♫
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