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Results of autopsy on girl's bodypending, death called 'suspiciousfi'v FLORIDA — Result1 of an autopsy .oil . the body 'of 18-year-old Kim' BeiioiL ' performed .last night, will probably not known for two or three weeks, Dr, J Edmond J\ Larkin, medical examiner, said this morning.The girl, .reported missing since Nov,’-” 1, was found Saturday afternoon at the base of an approximate 50-foot embankment in the village of Hoosac Tunnel by David Burdick, 21, of Hill Road, Hoosac Tunnel, a hunter. Hoosac Tunnel is part of the town of Florida.- State Police at Pittsfield called I he death '‘auspicious but had no other details to give, a spokesman said. Det. LL Milo F. Brown is in charge of an Investigation with Det. Sgt. Kichard J. Clemens.Dr. Larkin told The Transcript the aulapsy was performed at the San Soucie Funeral Home last nighl by Dr. George W. Curtis, a state pathologist,' and himself, but that nothing conclusive was found to determine the cause of death.' Examination of vital organs, Dr: Larkin said, will lake about two or three weeks. He said there' were no broken bones in the girl's body. The time of death, Dr, Larkin said, couTd not bo determined, despite the fact he was quoted by other news media as giving an ' approximate time of death. Del. Brown said he hoped . he might get a preliminary report', however, in a week.Dr. Larkin said that considering the weather and Ihc fact it has b\an cold in the Florida area in the pas I week or twoj he could not make a determination of the lime of the death of the girl.’I I « Im.. 4«-Kim Benoitlie indicated I here were no marks of violence by saying there was nothing to show how (lie girl died. Det. Brown said (he body may have rolled down some of the embankment but that the pathological examination would be the only way of determining (hat.The Benoit girl was reported missing by her mother Nov. 4 -to North Adams police after she had failed to turn up sinee Nov. 1. On Friday, Mrs. Langley again made an appeal to police to seek the girl and a missing persons bulletin-was broadcast again.Mrs. Langley told The Transcript Friday afternoon (hot her daughter, whohad been living for a while at.6 Suttpn St. - wilh another girl, just a short distance from her own home, had purchased a Lumber of iiesv clothes and a present for her younger brother's. Nov. G birthday.. -Mrs. Lapgley Said she'did not believe her daughter1 would hrive missed her brother's birthday because of her Fondness for him, and would not have left home leaving behind her new clothes and alt her money. She said that Kim often hitchhiked.The girl, a senior at Drury High School and. a member of the First Congregational Church, was Iasi seen, Mrs. Langley said, just after leaving a dance at the Sons of Italy Lodge home on Melody Lane in North Adams.Stale Police at Shelburne Falls were notified by Burdick of Hie finding of I he body. In him Police'Chief Charles L. Briggs of Florida and Slate Police at Pittsfield were called to I he scene by Shelburne Falls officers.Sgt. Juhn Driscoll and Trooper Thomas McNally of Shelburne Falls were the first to respond to the scene. Later they were joined by Det. LL Brown, Det. Sgl. Clemens, Trooper Richard 13. Celli, police photographer, and Trouper David B. Kenney.Chief Briggs declined any comment on the mailer except to give a location where the body was found and verify Mint the Benoil girl was wearing clothes matching the description of clothes her mother said she was wearing when last seen.Mrs. Langley told The Transcript Friday that Kim had been wearing a( Ceneluded on Page 24)
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Mon, Nov 18, 1974
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