The Mystery of Boulder Jane Doe

Aired: May 29, 2007

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"Anon"
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(Introduction to show begins)

TODD MATTHEWS (Missing Pieces Host): I'm Todd Matthews. Welcome to Missing Pieces. Tonight we have Silvia Pettem; she is another amateur researcher and she actually lives in Colorado. She's researching the 1954 case in which a Jane Doe was found in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. Welcome Silvia.

SILVIA PETTEM (Guest): Thank you.

TODD: Silvia's an old friend; I've known her for several years and, in fact, until I read her...she created a little bit of a timeline for me to go about this show, and I found out that I've known her for a lot longer than I thought I knew you. It's been years.

SILVIA: Well, it has been, yeah.

TODD: It's funny how time slips away from us like it does. So you are actually interested in the Jane Doe whose battered, naked body was found at the bottom of any embankment on the edge of Boulder Creek, west of Boulder, Colorado, by 2 university students, and that was in 1954.

SILVIA: Right, and they were out on a hike and came across the body and rushed down to tell the sheriff and he didn't believe them but followed them back, and it's been a mystery ever since.

TODD: Didn't they first think that she might have been a mannequin?

SILVIA: That's what they thought...well, that's what was reported in the newspaper, that they thought that perhaps this was just some store mannequin thrown down in the creek bed, and they went closer and found out that it really, truly was a human body. She had been out in the elements for a week to 10 days and had no clothes, no identity, absolutely nothing about her that they could figure out who she was.

TODD: Okay, what do we know about the Boulder County Jane Doe?

SILVIA: Well, we have a description. We do have an original autopsy. She was about 5'3" - 5'4" and weighed about 100-110 lbs. She had perfect teeth, which means there are no dental records because she had no dental work, and she had an appendectomy scar, so it would be nice if there were hospital records but they don't seem to have survived. And she had light brown, almost blonde hair.