BRIEF TIMELINE FOR BOULDER JANE DOE
Body found by students, April 8, 1954.
Condition: exposed to the elements for a week or more.
No clothing or identification.
Face had been ravaged (beyond recognition) by animals.
Description: slender, 110 pounds, 62-63 inches.
Age: Estimated at 20, based on a half-erupted wisdom tooth. (Recently, a forensic dentist determined that her wisdom teeth were impacted, stating that she was AT THE MINIMUM 20 years old, possibly older.)
Burial at Columbia Cemetery, April 22, 1954.
Case reopened February 4, 2004: then
- Exhumation.
- Skull reassembled.
- DNA profiled.
- Facial reconstruction sculpted.
- Case shown on Americas Most Wanted.
- DNA ruled out Twylia May Embrey and Marion Joan McDowell.
- Probable murderer (Harvey Glatman) identified.
- Researchers ruled out several missing women.
- Researchers narrowed search to Katharine E. Farrand Dyer.
- Katharines photo superimposed on a cast of Jane Does skull.
- Katharine not excluded as Jane Doe.
- Remains reburied, September 9, 2008.
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