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Cold Cases blog
It was unusual for Helene Pruszynski, 21, not to come home on time. She had moved in with her aunt and uncle on South Pennsylvania Street in Englewood while working as an intern at KHOW radio in downtown Denver. When she didn’t arrive when expected on the evening of Jan. 17, 1980, her relatives called the Englewood Police Department. Her body was found the next morning in a field in Douglas County. An autopsy determined she had been stabbed repeatedly and raped. Post reporter Kirk Mitchell is compiling unsolved murder cases online, and sometimes all that is needed to reignite an investigation is a single, pivotal clue.
