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The Hayward Review• Monday, Mny 5, 1947New 'Dahlia'CHues SoughtLOS ANGELES, (U.R) — Police cheeked church acquaintances ol Mrs. Dorothy Montgomery today In ‘their search for the sadistic slayer of (he fourth victim of the “Black Dahlia cycle,Learning ihat Mrs, Montgomery, SO-ycar-olcl mother of three, led an apparently blameless life, Lt. Pete Sutton of the sheriffs homeside detail, said “that's why our search fur her killer has narrowed down to those who might have come in contact with her m church work, which was her principal interest,Her nude, mu til u ted body was found under a pep pur tree in a ‘Vacant Jot, two miles from her Fire?tone Park home, eaily Saturday morning. An autopsy disclosed she was strangled to dull Hi but not raped.The case closely resembled the brutal murder of Elizabeth SkcirL, 22-yea r-old party girl known as tlje “Black Dahlia.”'James Kennedy, who saw a tall, bald-headed man park Mis. Montgomery’s car Fiidny night, viewed .several potential suspects but was Unable to identify them,Mrs. Motgorncry left home in the family car to pick up her 15-year-old chi ugh iei, JVlaycJilc, at a playground.When Maycillo returned home at 11 p.m. without her mother, her her fother, Thomas Montgomery,54, refrigerator repairman, telephoned the shcuirrs office to report his wife was missing The body was* found by 0. V/. Thomas, 54-year-old automobile mechanic, who said he was attracted bv ^something win to.Mrs. Montgo 111 cry’s skull \vn$ battered and officers said .she had been abused.Oakland L/raes
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Daily Review
Hayward, California, US
Mon, May 05, 1947
Page 8
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Eli F.
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