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Murder Case Two Years OldDetective Says Probe Of Murder Is Slowed By Lack Of Army HelpLittle or no cooperation” from the War Department was blamed yesterday by Pennsylvania Police Detective Sergeant Carl Hartman for the lack of progress in the Betty Jane Kenned} murder case.Hartman reported latest details in the case Sunday, which was the second anniversary ot the day on which the Hagerstown girl’s garrot-ed body was found along a country rode near RouzervHle in nearby Pennsylvania.The letective said he is “reasonably sore” the girl was murdered by a soldier formerly stationed at Camp Ritchie who looks like an Indian.“He was smartly uniformed answer e a medal bedecked battle jacket,” Hartman added. To date investigation of this angle in the case has run into a stone wall with the War Department, he continued. Several times Army quarters were approached, “and each time i there has been little or no cooperation.Law enforcement officers in this county who have participated different times in the case, do not all agree vith theories advance, by the Pennsylvania detective. Some contend that the man who killed etty Jane Kennedy is now serving time on other charges. Still others argue that the man who did it died some months ago.Solution of the case, however, is in the hands of Pennsjivania police who call the case the most baffling in Franklin County his tory.The body was found April * i, 15)46, face down, lodged against a log, which had prevented it from rolling down the mountain side in to Red Run. A slip, the only piece of clothing on the body, was wrapped around her midriff.Although some other articles of clothing wert. found strewn in the area, police never found the red dress the girl was supposed to have been wearing.
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Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Mon, Apr 05, 1948
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