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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
pit - 30 September 1952
By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:31 pm
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November 30, 2013, 3:30 pm
Woman’s charred skeleton found under funeral pyre near Black
Hawk
By Kirk Mitchell
It was one of Colorado’s biggest unsolved murder mysteries of
the 1950s.
Jane Doe, funeral pyre victim
Jane Doe, funeral pyre victim
Who placed a log on top of a woman and torched her body in
Gilpin County? It came to be known as the pyre case.
Its a mystery that torments Cathy Jo Damoth even 61 years later.
She said she hopes the pyre case can still be solved today, if
for no other reason to determine whether her father is guilty of
the grotesque murder that stunned Coloradans.
Her father, Charles Damoth, then 31, is the one who discovered
the pyre and bones deep in the woods of Jefferson County while
on a hunting trip.
“I don’t have any reason to believe my father was involved,”
Cathy Jo Damoth wrote me in a recent email.
But authorities at the time did. They repeatedly asked him
whether he was involved in any way either with the murder of the
Jane Doe or the burning of her body.
Many years after the case was front page news in The Denver
Post, Cathy Jo Damoth found newspaper clippings among her
family’s belongings.
She wondered if the woman’s identity was ever discovered and if
so had anyone ever been arrested for the crime.
“I don’t know why this bothers me today except I watch ‘Cold
Case Files’ on television and wonder if her murderer was ever
caught,” Cathy Jo Damoth wrote. “I am the last living person in
my family and would like to know whether or not my father was
involved or not.”
The mystery began on Sept. 30, 1952.
Charles Damoth, an Arvada carpenter, was shooting magpies 6½
miles south of Black Hawk in a small gulch off of Highway 119.
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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
pit - 30 September 1952
By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:32 pm
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Wednesday, October 1, 1952
Greeley Tribune
SLAIN WOMAN'S BODY FOUND AT BLACK HAWK
Central City, Colo./ The burned body of a woman was found half
concealed under a log on a slope near Colorado Highway 119 five
and a half miles from Black Hawk.
Sheriff Kenneth McKenzle said there was no doubt the woman was
slain.
"Either she was killed some place else and carried up there to
be burned or stunned and put under the log and burned to death,"
he said "there's no telling how long the body was there."
The body was discovered by Charles E. Damoth of Central City.
The wood was burned almost through and all sections of the body
in contact with it were flame seared.
"The only things left recognizable were her legs,one breast and
her teeth." Mckenzle said.
"her legs were sticking out from under the log, which s how Mr.
Damoth spotted the body."
Only a few scraps of material were found near the body. Among
them were a scrap of cloth dotted with sequins, the sole of a
shoe, a necklace and ring and an empty lipstick container.
The sheriff said that he judged the woman had been five feet two
or three inches tall, about 25 to 30 years old with brown curly
hair.
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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
pit - 30 September 1952
By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:33 pm
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Newspaper article. The Times-News, November 26, 1953.
Murder case tip brings up questioning.
Alleged man told Scribe in Denver he knew Blackhawk slayer.
Denver, Nov, 26 1953.
Police today were questioning ex-convict Lloyd W. Mason
concerning his alleged statement to a newspaper reporter that he
knew the identity of the victim of a year-old, unsolved murder
case.
The 51-year-old Mason was arrested late Wednesday and booked for
investigation after reporter Bob Whearley of the Rocky Mountain
News told police of his meeting with the man in a Denver tavern
last Sunday.
Whearley said Mason, who has been arrested in the past for
bigamy, rape and indecent liberties charges, told him the victim
of the mysterious pyre murder at Blackhawk, Colo., more than a
year ago might be waitress Dolores Parkhurst, a full-blooded
Cherokee indian.
The reporter quoted Mason as saying that he worked with Miss
Parkhurst in a restaurant at Granby, Colo., during the summer of
1952.
The missing waitress, listed under the name of Gladys Edwards by
Grand County Sheriff Chancy van Pelt, was seen leaving the
Granby restaurant the night of September 25, 1952, five days
before the charred remains of a woman's body was found beneath a
log near Blackhawk.
The body of the woman found beneath the log has never been
identified and her murderer never brought to justice.
However, the description of the Parkhurst woman tallied closely
with that of Gladys Edwards and reconstructions of the burned
victims' features.
The charred body was discovered by Charles Damoth of Central
City Colo., Sept. 30, 1952. Damoth has since moved to Michigan.
He voluntarily returned to Colorado several months ago to answer
questions concerning the mysterious case.
Whearley said Mason told him he didn't want to go to the police
with his story because "I want to stay out of this".
He refused to give the reporter his name but he was traced
through a telephone number he gave Whearley.
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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
pit - 30 September 1952
By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:36 pm
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Gilpin County Jane Doe
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(Image: Denver Police Department)
In 1952, carpenter Charles Damoth came across a burned body in
the woods outside Denver, Colorado. The woman had been beaten to
death with a stick, her remains set on fire. A charred log lay
across what was left of her broken skeleton. Damoth returned
home. But he didn’t call the police. Instead, he waited a while
before returning to the crime scene. He would wind up returning
to look at the broken body two more times before finally
alerting the authorities.
Thanks to Damoth’s suspicious behaviour, he quickly became a
suspect. It didn’t help that he admitted to cutting the log that
was used to burn the victim – although he said he’d done so
several months before, for a fire he never got round to
building. Not long after, a witness even came forward, putting
Damoth’s truck at the scene of the murder.
Yet Damoth was given lie detector tests and a “truth serum” and
passed on each occasion. Nor could anyone identify the dead
woman, or posit any possible relationship between her and
Damoth. The case remains officially unsolved.
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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
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By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:37 pm
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Clear Creek Canyon
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Colorado State Highway 119
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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
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By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:38 pm
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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
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By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:39 pm
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Re: GILPIN COUNTY JANE DOE: F, burned remains found in a gravel
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By: Akoya Date: February 10, 2020, 12:40 pm
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