Although written years ago, the words of Alexander Pope's "Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady" are still appropriate today:

By foreign hands your dying eyes were closed.
By foreign hands your comely limbs composed.
By foreign hands your humble grave adorned.
By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.

"FIND A GRAVE" MEMORIAL

JANE DOE

JANE DOE POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS DOROTHY GAY HOWARD –

NEW – EPILOGUE (READ HERE)

BACKGROUND: 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. The investigation was also directed toward her killer – believed to have been Harvey Glatman (Wikipedia entry).

Read the HARVEY GLATMAN TIMELINE (from primary-source documents)

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 Columbia Cemetery. Through the joint efforts of many people, her life has been acknowledged and an attempt has been made to restore the dignity that was taken from her during the last hours of her life.

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.