Boulder Jane Doe

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http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?id=8066

BOULDER — A local historian’s perseverance in trying to give a 1954 homicide victim a name has been buoyed by a special photo forensic test that compounded hope that the remains belong to a young Denver woman who was reported missing within two weeks of the discovery of the long-unidentified body.
But lack of information about the woman suspected of being Boulder Jane Doe — Katharine E. Farrand Dyer — has stalled the investigation to conclusively close the book on the 54-year-old mystery.
Historian Silvia Pettem has dedicated countless hours since she persuaded Sheriff Joe Pelle to reopen the 54-year-old case in 2004 to identify Jane Doe, whose remains are buried in Boulder’s Columbia Cemetery. Her efforts also turned up Dyer, who was listed as a missing person with the Denver police in March 1954. Dyer, who was separated from her husband, was living in a boarding house in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Pettem also found a photo of Dyer taken in 1949, which was provided to Michigan State University for a photo super-imposition onto a cast of the remains of the skull. The university concluded that the photo technique “failed to exclude” Dyer as the possible identity of Jane Doe.
The technique yields only two possible results: exclude or fail to exclude.
“For the past two years, I have believed that circumstantial evidence pointed to Katharine Dyer as Jane Doe,” Pettem said in a prepared statement Friday. “This promising new forensic evidence validates my opinion.”
Cmdr. Phil West of the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a prepared statement Friday that the result is “promising in light of other circumstantial evidence.”
“With no identifiable family, her ex-husband dead, and significant questions about her true identity, the investigation is stalled, pending someone coming forward with new information about Ms. Dyer,” West wrote, noting that the sheriff’s office is releasing Dyer’s photograph in another public attempt to find anyone who knew her to “provide the last link in the chain of circumstantial evidence that would lead to confirmation, and ultimately, a name for ‘Jane Doe.’”

Officials suspect Jane Doe — whose remains were discovered by two college students April 8, 1954, in Boulder Canyon on the banks of Boulder Creek — was killed by California serial killer Harvey Glatman, who was living in Colorado at the time. Jane Doe’s body was badly beaten, and officials believe she was left to die of exposure by her killer.
Glatman was dubbed “The Lonely Hearts Killer” by newspapers in California that followed his murders there.
He was executed in September 1959 in California after he was convicted of binding, raping, photographing and murdering three women in 1957 and 1958, according to the CourtTV Crime Library’s biography of Glatman.
Jane Doe was about 20 years old when she died; stood between 5 feet, 3 inches and 5 feet, 4 inches tall; and weighed between 100 and 110 pounds. Her hair was a light brown that bordered on blonde with a reddish tinge.
Jane Doe’s body was exhumed in 2004 to obtain a DNA profile and create a model of her face and head as she may have appeared.
Dyer’s landlady reported her missing from the boarding house 13 days before Jane Doe’s body was found. Dyer was an elevator operator at the American Furniture Co. in Denver and matched well the description of Jane Doe, down to the red tint in her hair. Denver police records do not indicate that Dyer was ever found.
Pettem and a team of researchers found records that Dyer married Jimmie Dyer in Prescott, Ariz., on Sept. 25, 1949. Her marriage license shows she was born Oct. 14, 1926, in San Antonio, Texas, although records there don’t include her birth certificate or that she ever had a Social Security number. Sheriff’s officials suspect she may have been using an assumed name.
Anyone with information about Dyer is asked to contact Detective Steve Ainsworth at 303-459-0193 or sainsworth@bouldercounty. org.
For more information about Pettem’s research, visit her Web site.

[sandy betts]

I tried to see when and where she was born using Katharine, then I tried Kathryn and found one in the USA census. This one was born est. birth yr 1923, if she used a aka maybe she also lied about her birthday ? My next thought was to see if I could find her parents. I found only one couple who had ties to Houston TX. and who would be about the correct age. They are Martha E Farrand B.D.8-23-1878 born in Pennsylvania. Her husband was George H. Farrand born 1871 in NJ., in 1910 he lived in Cook Ill. They bought a passport on 9-18=1920 . It showed they left Havana Cuba, took a ship named "Excelsior"and arrived in New Orleans . Their home address showed HoustonTX. I couldn't find a marriage or death for either of them. I would like to find Martha's maiden name, that helps to find other family members. Maybe someone in LE can work with what I found, "if " I found her parents.

www.boulderjanedoe.com

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http://www.9news.com/news/top-articl...?storyid=90261

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Information on Katharine Farrand, Jimmie Dyer or anything that pertains to this cold case please go to www.boulderjanedoe.com

[Silvia Pettem]

Thanks to you all for your interest in Boulder Jane Doe. And thanks to Sandy Betts for suggesting the names of Martha and George Farrand as possible parents for Katharine Farrand. I looked, however, at the 1920 passport application by Martha Farrand and it is only for her. It states that by 1920, George was deceased. According to the 1910 census, this was a childless couple, and in 1920, Martha was 42 years old.
Katharine's stated birth date (which may or may not be true) on her marriage affidavit was 14 October 1926. According to her missing person's report, however, she was believed to have been age 24 in 1954, making her birth date closer to 1930.
For more information on this case, please see www.boulderjanedoe.com or feel free to email me directly with any questions. (I had to remove the message board which did have a lot of info, but it was getting too much spam.)
Thanks, Silvia Pettem

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...ngjanedoe.html

DENVER – The exhumed remains of a mysterious woman killed in 1954 have been reburied without an answer to who she was, but some people believe they're close.
Investigators argue the remains are those of a Denver woman who had been reported missing just days before the battered, nude body of a woman in her 20s was found along a Boulder Canyon creek on April 8, 1954. There is even speculation that she may have been the victim of a serial killer.

Boulder Sheriff's Cmdr. Phil West said authorities need a family member to step forward and provide a DNA sample to determine whether the woman is Katharine E. Farrand Dyer. Farrand Dyer, who would have been in her late 20s, had separated from her husband and was living in a Denver boarding house when she was reported missing.
“Until we can locate some matrilineal relative of Miss Dyer's we are not able to make a confirmation,” West said Tuesday, noting that very little is known about Farrand Dyer.
But the lead investigator, Boulder Detective Steve Ainsworth, is not convinced the woman is Farrand Dyer because a doctor who examined the remains believes she was no older than 19.
A marriage certificate examined by Silvia Pettem, a Boulder historian, states that Farrand Dyer was born in San Antonio, Texas, but a volunteer genealogical team has been unable to find any family members. A comparison of a photo of Farrand Dyer with the remains was inconclusive, Ainsworth said.
After the June 2004 exhumation of the mysterious body, investigators extracted DNA and developed a profile that ruled out at least two other potential victims, including a Nebraska woman initially believed to be Jane Doe but who, it turned out, had run away and lived in Boston until her death in March 2006.
Jane Doe's DNA profile is now in the FBI's national database of missing persons.
New injuries found after the exhumation led police to believe they have a suspect: Serial killer Harvey Glatman, who was executed at California's San Quentin State Prison in September 1959 after confessing to three slayings in California.
Glatman lived blocks away from Farrand Dyer in Denver at the time of Jane Doe's death. He had previously served prison time for assaulting women – and had an obsession with bondage and ropes, according to Ainsworth.
A forensic anthropologist and a forensic pathologist found that Jane Doe's legs were broken, suggesting she may have escaped her captor and was running away before being run down by a car and left to die.
West said the injuries were consistent with “bumper fractures,” and that measurements were consistent with a 1951 Dodge Coronet that Glatman was driving at the time.
“There's just a lot of circumstantial evidence that points in that direction,” West said. “If this was a current investigation, a current event, he would figure very prominently as a suspect.”
At the request of then-Boulder Sheriff Arthur Everson, Los Angeles police questioned Glatman about pictures of three Denver women found in a toolbox belonging to Glatman. Ainsworth, citing transcripts of the interview, said Glatman was evasive about the identity of one of the women but provided details – names, ages, hometowns – for the other two.
“I'm way more convinced that Glatman is the killer than I am that Katharine Farrand Dyer is the victim,” Ainsworth said. “I believe our Jane Doe is in one of those pictures.”
Boulder Sheriff's Department files older than 1969 are no longer available, and Los Angeles police have been unable to find Glatman's pictures.
Jane Doe's remains were reburied at Boulder's Columbia Cemetery on Sept. 9. The headstone marking the grave still reads, “Jane Doe. April 1954. Age about 20 years.”
“It would be nice to put her own name on the grave stone,” said Pettem. “It just seems to be the right thing to do.”

These are Farrand's that were in Bexar Co, TX, in the historical records 1837-1963. I find Wallace, in People search, shows him Age 75. Gloria and Harold are apparently married, as well as, Wallace and Ruth. My thoughts are if Katharine is supposed to be born here, perhaps these could be siblings or cousins.

FARRAND GLORIA R GTR 6/11/1954 DEED RECORDS 3506
61 DEED OF TRUST T J BETTES CO
FARRAND HAROLD A GTR 6/11/1954 DEED RECORDS 3506
61 DEED OF TRUST T J BETTES CO
FARRAND GLORIA R GTE 6/11/1954 DEED RECORDS 3507
306 DEED WILSHIRE SALES CO
FARRAND HAROLD A GTE 6/11/1954 DEED RECORDS 3507
306 DEED WILSHIRE SALES CO
FARRAND HARVEA A GTE 6/11/1954 DEED RECORDS 3507
306 DEED WILSHIRE SALES CO
FARRAND GLORIA GTR 3/7/1955 DEED RECORDS 3645
220 DEED HOPKINS SAM B
FARRAND HAROLD A GTR 3/7/1955 DEED RECORDS 3645
220 DEED HOPKINS SAM B
FARRAND RUTH L GTE 1/11/1956 DEED RECORDS 3809
222 DEED GARRISON OTIS L
FARRAND WALLACE A GTE 1/11/1956 DEED RECORDS 3809
222 DEED GARRISON OTIS L
FARRAND WALLACE A GTE 12/21/1956 DEED RECORDS 3965
69 RELEASE GARRISON OTIS L
FARRAND RUTH L GTE 12/21/1956 DEED RECORDS 3965
69 RELEASE GARRISON OTIS L
FARRAND RUTH L GTR 11/22/1957 DEED RECORDS 4083
407 DEED WILLETTE EUGENE P
FARRAND WALLACE A GTR 11/22/1957 DEED RECORDS 4083
407 DEED WILLETTE EUGENE P

Wallace Farrand and associated:

FARRAND, WALLACE C
CLARKSVILLE, TN
SAN ANTONIO, TX
BARTHELME, DIANA L (age 43)
AND, LYNDA


3. FARRAND, WALLACE CLIFFORD
Associated names:
BSRRAND, WALLACE
FARRAND, W
FARRAND, CLIFFORD W
75 PENSACOLA, FL
SOUTH WEYMOUTH, MA
WEYMOUTH, MA
FARRAND, GREGORY ALAN (age 48)
BARTHELME, DIANA L (age 43)
FARRAND, DIANA L (age

FARRAND, GREGORY ALAN
Associated names:
FARRAND, GREG
FARRARD, GREG
48 OCEANSIDE, CA
PENSACOLA, FL
HARVEY, LA
HOLBROOK, MA
FARRAR, KEVIN N (age 63)
PARTRAR, DOUGLAS S (age 39)
FARRAND, CONSTANCE M (age 73)


. FARRAND, CONSTANCE M
Associated names:
FARRAND, CANSTANCE
73 PENSACOLA, FL
WEYMOUTH, MA
FARRAND, WALLACE CLIFFORD (age 75)
FARRAND, GREGORY ALAN (age 48)
BARTHELME, DIANA L (age 43)

Wallace Farrand's mother's obit:

(Click image to enlarge):
4/2/1952
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The obit mentions a daughter, Mrs Warren Bates, Houston.....


---------------------------------------------- Article says Warren W, this is Warren D (prob not right one)
Office of Beverly B. Kaufman, County Clerk, Harris County, Texas
Marriage License Inquiry System

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LICENSE . NAME / ADDRESS .S.R. NAME / ADDRESS .S.R.M .F . DATE OF . DATE OF . FILM . MISC .
NUMBER . PERSON 1 .X.C. PERSON 2 .X.C.AG.AG. ISSUE . MARRIAGE . CODE . DATES .
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0150605 BATES WARREN DAVID M MARKHAM GUAMADINE F 28 24 04-18-1950 04-20-1950 267100103



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I noticed his mother is from Canada. Does anyone have a subscription that can for Ancestry global? I have U.S., but can't access it. There is a record for a Katharine Peters, marrying a Farrand, but I can't tell what year, since I don't have a subscription. This is in Quebec.