Fourth Woman's Body Found

Fourth Woman^s Body Found

Called Most Sadistic

By William B. Treml

(News Police Reporter)

The nude body of a young
woman, brutally slain, was

I found shortly before noon today
off Earhart Rd. less than half a
mile from the spot where the

body of an Eastern Michigan
^ coed was found last July.

I Police Chief Walter E. Krasny
and Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey
who sped to the scene with a
dozen detectives agreed the
| slaying was the most sadistic
£ of the four unsolved k^i in

this area.

; The body, discovered by a
' house-building crew, was found
in a wooded area just north-
west of the Waldenwood-Pem-
| berton Rd. intersection. The
: area is just west of Earhart Rd.
in a new subdivision at the
northeast edge of Ann Arbor
I and just within the city limit'

?" The victim, who appeared in
; be about 20, had apparently
been strapped down sometime
before her death. Her body bore
. deep marks which Chief Krasny
I said apparently were made by a

[leather belt.

One eye was badly battered
and a twig was found between
s the fingers of her right hand. A

garter belt was knotted around
* her throat. A pair of loafers, a
gLpair of blue dungarees and what
^appeared to be a green blouse
pay within a few feet of her
body. Under the body was a
navy blue zipper jacket.

Chief Krasny said the victim
; apparently had been dragged
| through brush from west of the

(spot where she was found. A
path where an object had been
pulled through the brush could
be seen in the area.

Deputy Police Chief Harold
E. Olson requested aid from
Michigan State Police Crime
Laboratory experts at Lansing.
Police roped off the area pend-
ing their arrival.

Krasny said the absence of
| gunshot or knife wounds on the
body indicates the victim may
have been strangled or beaten
,to death. No wallet or identifi-
| cation papers were found on or
^near the body.

Tne body lay on a brush-filled
knoll near an asphalt-paved, cul-
de-sac.

An unfinished house, the only
one in the immediate area, is
less than 75 feet ' ' he spot
where the body limped.
Workmen an area daily
but the woocL „.. iick around
the house sites.

s Chief Krasny said the murder
'was probably "the worst" he
has seen in his 30 years of police
work.

"There's no question this is
a sadist, some kind of animal
who has to be caged," Krasny
Isaid. "We can't say this has
no connection with the other

three murders. There almost has
to be some link."

The chief was referring to the
murders of Mary Fleszar, an
Eastern Michigan University
coed, found on a private dump
north of Ypsilanti in 1967; Joan
Schell, murdered and dumped
on Glacier Way near the spot
where the body was found to-

day, and Jane L. Mixer, a Uni-
versity of Michigan coed who
was shot and strangled and
dumped in Denton Cemetery,
Wayne County, last week.

The face of the body found
today was partially hidden by
what appeared to be a dark-
colored kerchief but the piece
of cloth did not hide the deeply-

bruised right eye.

Chief Krasny said he has
pulled squads of detectives off
other assignments and placed
them on the latest murder case.
Evidence at the scene, examined
and recorded by the State Police
Crime Laboratory, is expected
to aid greatly in the probe, tbe
chief said.