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Intensive Search Continues For Killer of Delta WomanDELTA, MO. • ,I*.— Police, with| I think she was forcibly taken,anlv description ot a speeding out of her car and put into aura r to help, continued their inten-other car and then transportedsive search today for the killer ol about two miles.Miss Bonnie Lorette Huffman. 20-vear-old rural school teacher.Three Delta residents have told of seeing a rapidly moving car onThe decomposed condition of | the road Friday night near thej her body, found Monday night in point where Miss Huffman’sa culvert prevented determining abandoned car later was found byduring an autopsy whether she had been raped, but Sgt. P. K. Little ot the Missouri Highway Patrol said the general belief was that it was a sex case.She couldn’t have been expected to be carrying much money, he added.Lights BurningThe body was found a littleher brother.Sounded HornThe driver sounded his horn several times, as if trying to halt another ear, shortly after passing the witnesses. The car later was seen speeding through Delta.Miss Huffman, a slender brunette, had been ♦lt; a movie withmore than two days after she wasj^r*cnc's anc* was driving home reported missing. Her car, with the.a*ont‘ when authorities believe lights burning, was found in the s^e was slain.Deputy Sheriff Elmer Thompson and Sergeant John Cracratt otmiddle of a countly road a few miles from the body.The 450 resident here were I Cape Girardeau organized a search highly excited over the slaying of* the attractive 5-foot-10 inch girl.She had been popular here. ^ -4/ _Her neck was broken and her body. A search ol the area when jaw dislocated. Sergeant Little the body was found and also of said a blow could have caused i the area where, her car wasparty here to look for the victim’s glasses, purse and necklace;which were missing from thethat or she might thrown from a car,have beenfound failed to find the missingitems.
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Sikeston Daily Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Wed, Jul 07, 1954
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