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GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 15 No
vember 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:32 am
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The victim was found on Amherst Street, about an 1/8 mile off
Amherst Road and about 1/2 mile south of Route 116 in Granby.
She had been shot in the temple and buried in a shallow grave
under a log. A brown leather belt was found around her neck, and
reportedly used to drag her body to the burial site.
Inquiries were made at local colleges, as Route 116 is and was
often used by college students hitchhiking or traveling between
Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and Amherst-area colleges,
but no women were reported missing.
She was laid to rest in West Ceremony, the simple white wooden
cross reading "Unknown Girl" replaced with a headstone purchased
by the citizens of Granby.
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:34 am
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Case File: 720UFMA
The Doe Network
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Unidentified Female
Date of Discovery: November 15, 1978
Location of Discovery: Granby, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Estimated Date of Death: 3-12 months prior
State of Remains: Unknown
Cause of Death: Homicide by gunshot
Physical Description
** Listed information is approximate
Estimated Age: 19-26 years old
Race: Unknown
Gender: Female
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Light blonde or light brown, long.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Chunky build.
Dentals: Unknown. Her front teeth had noticeable decay.
Fingerprints: Unknown.
DNA: Unknown.
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: A short sleeved shirt with a green collar and green
swan on the front (size 14-16). There were no labels or other
identifying markers on it.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Case History
The victim was found on Amherst Street, about an 1/8 mile off
Amherst Road and about 1/2 mile south of Route 116 in Granby.
She had been shot in the temple and buried in a shallow grave
under a log. A brown leather belt was found around her neck, and
reportedly used to drag her body to the burial site.
Inquiries were made at local colleges, as Route 116 is and was
often used by college students hitchhiking or traveling between
Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and Amherst-area colleges,
but no women were reported missing.
She was laid to rest in West Ceremony, the simple white wooden
cross reading "Unknown Girl" replaced with a headstone purchased
by the citizens of Granby.
Investigating Agency(s)
If you have any information about this case please contact;
Agency Name: Granby Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Chief Alan Wishart
Agency Phone Number: 413-467-9222
E-Mail
Agency Name: Northwest District Attorney's Office
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 413-586-5150
Agency Case Number: case nbr here
NCIC Case Number: N/A
NamUs Case Number: Not listed
Former Hot Case Number: 1624
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with
information regarding this case.
Information Source(s)
Granby Police Department
The Republican News Archive
Gazettenet.com News Archive
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:36 am
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On September 26, 1998 over two dozen citizens in Granby, MA came
to a grave in West Cemetery to celebrate the life of a woman
none of them ever knew.
Nearly twenty years earlier on November 15, 1978, the body of a
woman was discovered in a shallow grave just off of Route 116.
Police estimate that she was between 19-26 with blonde or light
brown hair and a tooth decay problem. Although the body had
decayed, evidence suggested she was around a size 14/16. She had
been shot in the temple and then dragged with a brown leather
belt tied around her neck to a burial site a half a mile south
of Route 116 near Amherst Rd. She had been buried under a log
for 3 months to a year before being found.
Initially police believed it was possible that she was a college
student-- The University of Massachusetts, Amherst College,
Hampshire College, and Mount Holyoke College are all on the same
road as the burial site. At the time it was especially common
for women from the all-female Mount Holyoke College to hitchhike
on the road to get to Amherst. However, inquiries about missing
female students proved fruitless.
Although it is not a spot that only locals would know about,
this portion of Route 116 is far enough from the highway that it
seems likely that the woman, or her killer, were somehow
affiliated with the area.
For twenty years, the burial site of the woman was simply marked
by a white cross reading "Unknown Girl". Then in 1998, as the
twenty year anniversary of the woman's death approached,
citizens of the small Massachusetts town where she was found
raised funds for a proper grave stone in West Ceremony and had a
service in her honor promising that although her identity was
not known, her memory would never be forgotten.
If you have any information that may lead to the identity of
this Jane Doe please call Louis Berry of the Granby Police at
413-467-9222.
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:45 am
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Body believed homicide victim
By Robert Perkins
Union Staff
GRANBY Hampshire-Franklin District Attorney John Callahan said
Thursday a decomposed body discovered off Route 116 here
Wednesday afternoon was an apparent homicide victim.
Callahan said there were signs of injury to the body which was
discovered by a person cutting wood.
Dr. William Dean, medical examiner, and a state pathologist were
scheduled to perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death
and identity of the victim.
Granby Police Chief John R. Kirchhof siad Thursday the body was
discovered about one-eighth of a mile from Amherst Road,
one-half mile south of Route 116.
Clothing discovered with the body indicated it was a female.
However, the body was so decomposed that "about the only thing
left is a skeleton," Kirchhof said.
He said no identification was found on the body or clothing and
that police were hoping the autopsy would help identify the
person.
Kirchhof declined to comment on Callahan's statemen that the
District Attorney's office is viewing the death as a homicide.
The body was discovered about 5 p.m. Wednesday afternoon near a
gravel pit in a heavily wooded area of this Hampshire County
community.
The area where the body was found is about half way between Five
Corners in Granby and the Route 116 "Notch" leading into
Amherst.
The body was removed to the Ryder Funeral Home in South Hadley
Falls, where the autopsy was to be performed.
Granby police said they had no reports of missing persons from
their community who would fit the sketchy information they had
about the remains.
Kirchof said that no pocketbook, wallet or other material that
would give a clue to the identity of the dead person was found.
The chief said the death is being investigated by both Granby
police and Callahan's office.
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:47 am
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Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA)
June 17, 1998
Section: News
Page: 11
A final resting place, 20-year-old murder case goes unsolved;
Granby tries to raise funds for grave marker
GRANBY - The grave of an unidentified murder victim found in
Granby nearly 20 years ago is marked by a white wooden cross
that simply reads: Unknown Girl.
Now the Commissioners of Burial Grounds in Granby want to mark
her final resting place with something more permanent, more
poignant.
Her initial resting place off Amherst Street near the
intersection with Route 116 was a grisly scene. She was shot in
the temple, shoved under a log and left to rot. Her decomposed
body was found Nov. 15, 1978, by loggers working in the area.
Police never learned her name, never identified her killer.
State police refused to release records of the case because,
according to their lawyer, it is still an open and ongoing case.
The officer who investigated the case retired several years ago.
"She probably was not from the area," said Granby police
detective David Trompke. "Otherwise, I'm sure she would have
been identified."
She was wearing jeans and a short-sleeve, polka-dot blouse with
a swan embroidered on the back, Trompke said, which are among
the few clues to her identity.
According to newspaper reports from that time, state police said
an autopsy revealed that the woman had been dead three to 12
months, was white, with long brown hair, and between 19 and 26
years old.
She had a "chunky build," size 14-16, and her front teeth were
noticeably decayed.
In addition to the swan blouse, according to newspapers, she was
wearing vinyl wedgie-style shoes, a blue tank top and a black
windbreaker. A brown leather belt found around her neck was used
to drag the body to its original shallow grave.
Inquiries were made at local colleges, papers reported, as Route
116 is and was often used by college students hitchhiking or
traveling between Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley and
Amherst-area colleges, but no women were reported missing.
Police asked for the public's help in the first week of January,
1979, after the lone lead in the case did not pan out,
newspapers said. A motel operator had reported that a woman
answering the description stayed at his establishment in early
1978 but she was located alive and well.
DNA tests would not be useful, Trompke said, because scientists
need to compare the results to another sample, perhaps of a
direct relative, and police have no idea where to look.
Tony Regan found out about the unmarked grave when he became a
cemetery commissioner five years ago. He made the white cross
that stands at her West Street Cemetery grave and decorates it
each Christmas and spring. Others people occasionally leave
flowers, he said, but he does not know who.
Now Regan and fellow commissioner Robert Kingsley are trying to
raise money to place a permanent stone marker there.
It will cost about $300, Regan said. If they raise enough money
they might have the stone inscribed with an epitaph, he said, or
a poem, to remind those who see it that that life, no matter how
short or anonymous, is precious.
"So she isn't completely forgotten," Regan said. "She had a
mother and father."
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:48 am
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Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA)
September 26, 1998
Section: News
Page: 16
Stone, service in Granby honor unknown victim
GRANBY - A memorial service was held Thursday to mark the
placement of a stone at the grave of a murder victim, dead for
20 years and never identified.
More than two-dozen people attended the service at the West
Street Cemetery for the woman, said to be in her 20s. The stone
was paid for with donations.
The ceremony was led by the Rev. Merrilyn Holcomb, pastor of the
Granby United Church of Christ.
"I knew there were compassionate people in this town," Holcomb
said to those assembled. "Your presence, these flowers, this
stone attest to that."
"A stone has been tenderly placed before us today," Holcomb
said. "It is beautiful and sturdy, an everlasting symbol of this
community's care for an unnamed woman whose hopes and dreams,
troubles and anxieties, are not known to us."
"We do not know the tragedy of her death and we do not know
about her life, but we can honor her as a person and hope she is
in God's care," she said.
Cemetery commissioners Robert Kingsley and Anthony Regan decided
earlier this year to put a stone at the grave and began
collecting money in May. Once the story was publicized, Regan
said, they received more donations than they needed.
"I thought it might be kind of a chore, but people were really
kind," Kingsley said.
"I had three people who wanted to buy me any stone we wanted,
but I said no, because we already had so many donations we had
to turn people away," Regan said. They collected a total of
$700.
The pink granite stone that reads "Unknown; Nov. 18, 1978; In
God's Care," was received from the Amherst Monument Co, in
Hadley, for about $500.
"They wanted to give it to me, but I said no," Regan said.
"We're saving the rest of the money to buy her some flowers
occasionally," he said.
The date on the stone marks the woman's interment. She is
thought to have died three to 12 months earlier.
Her body was found by loggers in November 1978. She had been
shot in the temple and shoved under a log off Amherst Street.
State Police searched for clues to her identity and that of her
killer, but never really had any solid leads, according to
newspaper reports at the time.
Police asked for the public's help in January 1979 and described
the victim as 19 to 26 years old, white, with long brown hair
and a chunky build. State Police refused to discuss the case
earlier this year, calling it an open and ongoing investigation.
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:51 am
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Girl Unknown
Birth: unknown
Death: 1978
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On September 26, 1998 over two dozen citizens in Granby, MA came
to a grave in West Cemetery to celebrate the life of a woman
none of them ever knew.
Nearly twenty years earlier on November 15, 1978, the body of a
woman was discovered in a shallow grave just off of Route 116.
Police estimate that she was between 19-26 with blonde or light
brown hair and a tooth decay problem. Although the body had
decayed, evidence suggested she was around a size 14/16. She had
been shot in the temple and then dragged with a brown leather
belt tied around her neck to a burial site a half a mile south
of Route 116 near Amherst Rd. She had been buried under a log
for 3 months to a year before being found.
Initially police believed it was possible that she was a college
student-- The University of Massachusetts, Amherst College,
Hampshire College, and Mount Holyoke College are all on the same
road as the burial site. At the time it was especially common
for women from the all-female Mount Holyoke College to hitchhike
on the road to get to Amherst. However, inquiries about missing
female students proved fruitless.
Although it is not a spot that only locals would know about,
this portion of Route 116 is far enough from the highway that it
seems likely that the woman, or her killer, were somehow
affiliated with the area.
For twenty years, the burial site of the woman was simply marked
by a white cross reading "Unknown Girl". Then in 1998, as the
twenty year anniversary of the woman's death approached,
citizens of the small Massachusetts town where she was found
raised funds for a proper grave stone in West Ceremony and had a
service in her honor promising that although her identity was
not known, her memory would never be forgotten.
If you have any information that may lead to the identity of
this Jane Doe please call Louis Berry of the Granby Police at
413-467-9222.
Inscription:
Unknown // Nov 18 1978 // In God's Care
Burial:
West Street Cemetery
Granby
Hampshire County
Massachusetts, USA
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 8:53 am
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Woman works to identify shooting victim in 1978 case
By PATRICK JOHNSON, The Republican of Springfield
Updated: 7:50 AM EDT Sep 5, 2015
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The grave stone in Granby's West Street Cemetery, where the
remains of an unidentified woman have been buried since 1978.
Originally the grave was marked with a wooden cross, but in 1998
people in Granby donated a permanent marker.
SOURCE: Patrick Johnson | pjohnson@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. —
For about two years, Kelly Dillon has been preoccupied by
thoughts of a young woman she calls G.G. - short for "Granby
Girl" - but who is known by just about everyone else as "Jane
Doe."
"I find it appalling she has never been identified," said
Dillon, of Springfield. "It's been 37 years. Someone knows where
this girl is from or who she was. Someone somewhere knows
something."
The young woman's body, or what was left of it, was found in a
shallow grave in Granby on Nov. 15, 1978. She had been shot in
the head, most likely months earlier, and then buried off
Amherst Road near Route 116. Her killer was never found, and
neither has her identity.
Since then, all that she ever was and all that she is has been
reduced to the words etched onto her grave marker in Granby's
West Cemetery: "Unknown, Nov. 15, 1978. In God's care."
That is not good enough for Dillon.
Since learning of the case two years ago by chance, Dillon, 47,
who works as financial administrative assistant for the state of
Connecticut, has spent much of her free time trying to track
down information that could lead to the discovery of Granby
Girl's identity.
Though she has no training or experience in criminal
investigations, Dillon over the last two years has reached out
to Granby police, Springfield police and the Massachusetts State
Police about the case. She has pored through various missing
persons databases, scoured the Internet and filed Freedom of
Information Act requests for information with the Massachusetts
Registry of Motor Vehicles and the federal Social Security
information.
More recently, she contacted The Republican / MassLive about
writing a story about it, if for no other reason than to trigger
people's memories and possibly bring new information forward.
"I have just taken it upon myself that I'd like to see her
identified, that I'd try to get her identified," she said. "For
whatever reason."
During a recent interview, she used that phrase - "for whatever
reason" - repeatedly.
She said she used it a lot because she is not altogether clear
on why she set out to tackle this mystery. All she knows, she
said, is that she must do something.
"I don't know what drives me on this," she said. "I was just 10
years old when they found her."
As far as she knows, she has no connection to Granby Girl. She
does not know anyone from Granby, has never been to Granby, and
isn't totally sure how she would get there if she ever wanted to
go to the southern Hampshire County town.
She does not know anyone who has gone missing, nor does she know
anyone who knows anyone who has gone missing.
All she knows is that from the first time she read of the case
of the body of an unidentified woman found long ago in an
unmarked grave in the woods of Granby, it just kind of pulled at
her and refused to let go.
Granby Girl was found buried under a log in a wooded section of
Granby, off Amherst Road and south of Route 116, on Nov. 15,
1978.
The first story of the discovery appeared in the Morning Union,
a predecessor of today's The Republican, three days later. To
give an idea how long ago that was, the story appeared on the
front page alongside news stories about stalled peace
negotiations between Israel and Egypt, USSR President Leonid
Brezhnev boasting the Soviet Union had developed a neutron bomb
and President Jimmy Carter hosting a White House party in
celebration of the 50th birthday of Mickey Mouse.
That first story contained many of the elements of the case that
have not changed over the years:
The body was that of an unknown woman found under a log by some
people out gathering wood. She was approximately 5 feet, 4
inches tall, estimated to be between the ages of 19 and 27, and
had dirty blond hair.
An autopsy determined she had been shot in the left temple.
The body was heavily decomposed from being in the woods anywhere
from three months to a year before discovery.
The case is unsolved. While no one knows who the Granby Girl is,
no one knows who killed her either. The case remains open,
according to the office of Northwestern District Attorney David
E. Sullivan.
Little information about the status of the investigation was
available, but First Assistant District Attorney Steven E. Gagne
did say the DA's office is midway through developing new
protocols to review longstanding unsolved cases.
He said he does not have any problem with an amateur sleuth like
Dillion looking into old cases.
"The office always welcomes the submission of any information
that could lead to the resolution of cases," he said.
Dillon, in a recent interview at her Springfield home, admitted
that her exposure to and her interest in the Granby Girl case
was one of total happenstance.
Home sick in bed with pneumonia, she was engaged in some
free-flowing Web surfing when she happened upon a site called
The Doe Network, which is an online database for missing and
unidentified persons cases across the United States.
The site lets you search for open cases by geography, and she
did what anyone from the area would do: She clicked on the tab
for "Massachusetts." A dozen or so Jane and John Doe cases
popped up on her screen, but only one was from Western
Massachusetts: Granby Girl.
She said that as she read the file, she felt drawn to the
unknown woman and was left with a feeling that she needed to do
something.
"I just wanted to know," she said.
Dillon said several times during an interview that part of what
drives her is that it bothers her that someone could be so alone
in the world that no one would notice her missing.
Although she is trained to track down spending receipts,
financial records and fiscal data, Dillion has no experience in
police investigations, evidence processing or forensics. Despite
that, she has plodded along, trying to think of every way she
can for finding avenues that could lead to identifying Granby
Girl.
She has spoken to Granby police and been referred to the
Massachusetts State Police. She said she had repeated
conversations with the state police lieutenant in charge of the
investigation, but she has since retired. She has started
talking with the new detective assigned to the case.
She has spoken with Springfield police about possible
connections with a similar but solved murder involving a
Springfield girl one month before the Granby body was found,
"Surprisingly, they are all a very suspicious lot. They wanted
to know what my interest was," she said.
She has sent Freedom of Information requests to U.S. Social
Security asking for records of women who were between 19 and 26
in 1978 who ceased having any Security Activity but for whom
there was no death notification. They replied they were unable
to process the request.
She has filed a similar request with the Massachusetts Registry
of Motor Vehicles, asking for a list of all women between the
ages of 19 and 26 and a certain height with blond hair who
failed to renew their driver's license in the four years after
1978. The registry keeps track of people by height, age, hair
and eye color.
After initially telling her they could not do it, the registry
replied that it could. The search turned up a list of 300 names
that were forwarded, as Dillon had requested, to the state
police.
Everything she finds, she turns over to the state police. The
case is an open investigation and she said she does not want to
get accused of stepping on toes.
"I'm not trying to solve the murder As far as I'm concerned
that's deep-ocean swimming, and I will leave the state police to
it," she said. "I just want to know who this girl is - or was."
It's for that reason she does not want any of her personal
contact information - no phone, no email - attached to this
article. The last thing she wants is someone else with an
interest in the case knocking on her front door, she said.
If anyone has information, they should contact the state police
by way of the Northwestern District Attorney's office at (413)
586-9225.
Dillon says she is hoping that someone will come forward to say
they remember. But until that happens, she will continue
plodding along trying to find her identity.
As she gives an interview under the shelter of a beach umbrella
in her backyard, she sifts through the sheets and sheets of
paper that she has stuffed into a manila folder. There are
newspaper clips, articles from missing persons websites and
printouts of correspondences with the state police, different
state agencies and anyone else she thinks can help.
Taped inside the folder is a handwritten note that turns out to
be a passage from The Book of Alma, one of the volumes that make
up The Book of Mormon:
"For the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that his
justice and judgment may come upon the wicked; therefore ye need
not suppose that the righteous are lost because they are slain;
but behold, they do enter into the rest of the Lord their God."
Asked its significance, she shrugged and said it's a
lost-lamb-gone-home type of thing.
"A friend wrote it out for me," she said.
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 9:00 am
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HTML http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/in_search_of_granby_girl_sprin.html
In search of 'Granby Girl,' Springfield woman looks to find
identity of victim in 1978 homicide case
Updated on August 30, 2015 at 6:33 AMPosted on August 30, 2015
at 6:30 AM
HTML https://i.imgur.com/oP77iv7.jpg
By Patrick Johnson
pjohnson@repub.com
In search of 'Granby Girl'
The grave stone in Granby's West Street Cemetery, where the
remains of an unidentified woman have been buried since 1978.
Originally the grave was marked with a wooden cross, but in 1998
people in Granby donated a permanent marker.
SPRINGFIELD — For about two years, Kelly Dillon has been
preoccupied by thoughts of a young woman she calls G.G. – short
for "Granby Girl" – but who is known by just about everyone else
as "Jane Doe."
"I find it appalling she has never been identified," said
Dillon, of Springfield. "It's been 37 years. Someone knows where
this girl is from or who she was. Someone somewhere knows
something."
The young woman's body, or what was left of it, was found in a
shallow grave in Granby on Nov. 15, 1978. She had been shot in
the head, most likely months earlier, and then buried off
Amherst Road near Route 116. Her killer was never found, and
neither has her identity.
Since then, all that she ever was and all that she is has been
reduced to the words etched onto her grave marker in Granby's
West Cemetery:
"Unknown, Nov. 15, 1978. In God's care."
That is not good enough for Dillon.
Since learning of the case two years ago by chance, Dillon, 47,
who works as financial administrative assistant for the state of
Connecticut, has spent much of her free time trying to track
down information that could lead to the discovery of Granby
Girl's identity.
Though she has no training or experience in criminal
investigations, Dillon over the last two years has reached out
to Granby police, Springfield police and the Massachusetts State
Police about the case. She has pored through various missing
persons databases, scoured the Internet and filed Freedom of
Information Act requests for information with the Massachusetts
Registry of Motor Vehicles and the federal Social Security
information.
Granby Girl was found buried under a log in a wooded section of
Granby, off Amherst Road and south of Route 116, on Nov. 15,
1978.
The first story of the discovery appeared in the Morning Union,
a predecessor of today's The Republican, three days later. To
give an idea how long ago that was, the story appeared on the
front page alongside news stories about stalled peace
negotiations between Israel and Egypt, USSR President Leonid
Brezhnev boasting the Soviet Union had developed a neutron bomb
and President Jimmy Carter hosting a White House party in
celebration of the 50th birthday of Mickey Mouse.
That first story contained many of the elements of the case that
have not changed over the years:
The body was that of an unknown woman found under a log by some
people out gathering wood. She was approximately 5 feet, 4
inches tall, estimated to be between the ages of 19 and 27, and
had dirty blond hair.
An autopsy determined she had been shot in the left temple.
The body was heavily decomposed from being in the woods anywhere
from three months to a year before discovery.
The case is unsolved. While no one knows who the Granby Girl is,
no one knows who killed her either. The case remains open,
according to the office of Northwestern District Attorney David
E. Sullivan.
Little information about the status of the investigation was
available, but First Assistant District Attorney Steven E. Gagne
did say the DA's office is midway through developing new
protocols to review longstanding unsolved cases.
He said he does not have any problem with an amateur sleuth like
Dillion looking into old cases.
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Re: GRANBY JANE DOE: F, 19-26, found in Hampshire County, MA - 1
5 November 1978
By: Akoya Date: April 18, 2020, 9:03 am
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