Autopsy Shows EMU Coed Was Stabbed Many Times

Autopsy Shows EMU Coed Was Stabbed Many Times

YPSILANTI — A 19-year-old Eastern Michigan University coed, whose dismembered nude body was found Tuesday on a Superior Township farm, was stabbed to death.

Announcing the results of autopsy, the medical examiner's office said today Mary Fleszar received many stab wounds in the chest.

Dental work of the coed was used to positively identify the body, which was badly decomposed when found by the son of the farm owner and a friend, as being Miss Fleszar, who had been missing from her Ypsilanti apartment since July 9.

A pathologist at University Hospital, where the autopsy was conducted, said the autopsy revealed an attempt had been made to conceal the identity of the victim.

The body was found with one forearm and the fingers of the other hand and both feet severed. A team of detectives from the Michigan State Police and Ypsilanti Police Department, meanwhile, attempted to piece together the events leading to the grisly slaying.

Interviewing all of her friends, associates and relatives, they are attempting to learn where the coed may have gone after she walked out of her apartment at 413 Washtenaw, telling her roommate she was going for a walk.

In combing the abandoned farm property yesterday, detectives determined the body had been moved three times on the property.

They said the body was first placed on top of a pile of bottles and cans which were dumped in an area obscured by a clump of box elder trees.

The body then was moved five feet south of this location and detectives believe it lay here for some time.

Detectives say that later the body was moved three feet more.

Mrs. Chester Fleszar of 10746 Willow, Augusta Township, mother of the dead girl, identified a leather and plastic sandal found at the scene as being one of a pair her daughter had bought before going to Expo 67 in Montreal this spring.

An employe of the EMU Field Service Office, Miss Fleszar also was an accomplished organist. She played at a wedding the night before she disappeared.

Her father, a supervisor of method engineering for Moynahan Bronze Co. in Flat Rock, was a trustee on the Augusta Township Board for one term beginning in 1961.

Medical examiners said the body had been lying in the field for a month.

The farm is located on the north side of Geddes, three-tenths of a mile west of LeForge Rd. It is about three miles from the apartment Miss Fleszar shared with Miss Nancy De Masellis.

MARY FLESZAR