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JANE DOE

(DOROTHY GAY HOWARD)

A young woman, known only as "Jane Doe" was found murdered, in April 1954, west of Boulder, Colorado. The local community raised the funds to bury her; then 50 years later they rallied again to exhume her skeletal remains, profile her DNA, and complete a facial reconstruction – all in the hopes of providing an identification and returning her remains to her family.... After the case took several twists and turns, the victim, still as Jane Doe, was reburied on September 9, 2008, in her former grave in Boulder's historic Columbia Cemetery... In October 2009, a DNA comparison with a surviving sister confirmed Jane Doe's identity as Dorothy Gay Howard, an 18-year-old then missing from Phoenix, Arizona... A new stone (incorporating the original) was placed on her grave in May 2010. SEE the news clip of the May 22, 2010 memorial service HERE.

A memorial bench for Dorothy (to be placed near her grave in the cemetery) has been approved by the Boulder Landmarks Review committee and, hopefully, will be in place by mid-October.

SEE – JANE DOE ARCHIVES PART 1 (ALL articles from 1954 to 2006)
SEE - JANE DOE ARCHIVES PART 2 (ALL articles from 2006 through 2010.)


Reburial, September 9, 2008, Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado
"By strangers honored and by strangers mourned,"
from Alexander Pope's "Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady"



New gravestone incorporates the original, May 2010
"The Lord bless thee and keep thee
The Lord make his face shine upon thee
And lift up his countenance upon thee
And give thee peace."
Numbers 6:24-26

"FIND A GRAVE" MEMORIAL

MORE ON THE BOOK:
ASK for "Someone's Daughter" at your favorite bookstore, buy it at Amazon.com, OR email the author at pettem@earthlink.net for a signed copy mailed directly to you.
FOR THE PRESS (AND OTHERS):
DUST JACKET COPY
ENDORSEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH SILVIA PETTEM
Taylor Trade (publisher)
Slide presentations and book-signings (SEE Presentations)
You are invited to join the Someone's Daughter group on Facebook.And take a look at Websleuths.com, where Boulder Jane Doe has been discussed since 2004.
The Jane Doe investigation was also directed toward her killer – believed to have been Harvey Glatman (Wikipedia entry).
READ the HARVEY GLATMAN TIMELINE (from primary-source documents)

On July 29, 2009, after the first edition of Someone’s Daughter had already gone to press, I turned on my computer and opened an email titled “Katharine Farrand Dyer.” Signed by someone unknown to me, the message marked a turning-point in the fifty-five-year-old case.... Read the EPILOGUE HERE.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).