BOULDER — Boulder County’s famed “Jane Doe” — the homicide victim whose identity has been a mystery for more than five decades — was identified today by the sheriff as a woman who went missing from Arizona.
Sheriff Joe Pelle announced that the woman’s identity has been confirmed as Dorothy Gay Howard, who was reported missing from Phoenix, Ariz., in March 1954. She was 18 years old at the time of her disappearance.
The sheriff’s office received lab results that showed a match between Howard’s DNA and DNA samples provided by a long-lost sister, confirming family’s suspicion that their relative, known as “Dot,” was Boulder’s “Jane Doe.” Detectives think the identification will help them finish piecing together the heinous murder.
Howard’s naked body was discovered battered along the banks of Boulder Creek, near Boulder Falls and eight miles west of Boulder, on April 8, 1954.
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