Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-10-25 | Page 16 | Lack of Clues Balks Probe of Desert Killing

P. T 0 LACK A OF CLUES BALKS ALKS PROBE OF DESERT KILLING Officers Unable to Identify Woman Victim Find Trace of Slayer 8 Br fly Associated Press Frus SAN BERNARDINO Cal Cat Ocl Oct 25 In In the mocking silence of her wastes pastes the l foj Mojave ve desert hid today the secret of a killer After Aller two days of or investigation which brought only the rebuff of failure failure fail fail- ure sheriffs sheriff's deputies found themselves themselves them them- selves without a definite clue to the identity of the lifeless ss body of or a ayoung ayoung ayoung young and attractive woman that had been found on Sunday in a lonely spot pot on the desert All AlI clothing stripped from h her r fIgure figure fig fIg- ure tire peace officers had nothing more than a general physical description on which to attempt to establish her Identity Equally meager was wa the information information information tion on the circumstances of or her death She had died from a blow v on the head and her killer apparently had taken her in an automobile to a point in th the sandy stretches off oU a main mam highway near Victorville Cal Cat where he had lowered her to the earth with an old tire which was left leanIng leanIng leaning lean- lean Ing grotesquely against the form A coroners coroner's jury last night returned a I verdict that the woman had met de death th at the hands of persons unknown un un- un- un known Meanwhile there flowed lowed into the office here scores of inquiries concerning the woman from many sections of at the country countr all aU from tram persons per per- zot sons ons seeking information about missing missing miss mIss- in ing women On the hope that a chance hance identification might be struck from bom these inquiries and Cand the long list of at police records of disappearance eases cases deputies scanned them closely holding little hope that ultimate iden Men identifIcation identification of at th the the- killer would be established established unless his victim could be named Numerous persons viewed the body but their efforts at identification were without success Deputies recalled that two years ago the bod body of ot another woman of somewhat similar appearance was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered in the desert and the case closed unsolved