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Although for years, Knoxville citizens have dumped their discarded tires, bottles, cartons, and rags in the

ravine at Stinky Point. It was not until last January that anybody thought to dump a body there

and to cover it with rubbish so that it would never be found.

She lay on her back in the wintry wasteland,

refuse and rubble strewn all around her.

She appeared to be 17 years old, had blue eyes and long,

light brown hair. The fine modeling of her features and the smartness of her clothes indicated

that she was a girl of refinement, but she had suffered a brutal beating before she died. Her face was flushed and swollen,

one eye was blackened, and there was dried blood in her hair, and the purplish flush at her throat

indicated the pressure of cruel hands. It was about noon on Wednesday, January 20th, 1960, and officers of the Knoxville, Tennessee

police stood around the body, which lay in a clump of underbrush a few yards off Lane Street

near First Creek. A tall, lean-faced man in work clothes hovered at the edge of the party.

He was carrying a 22 rifle. While coroner Sidney Wolfenbarger examined the body,

homicide Captain Charles Lobetti took the lean-faced man aside.

I understand you're the fellow who phoned us, the captain said.

How did you happen to find her?

The man said, it was my day off from the lime company where I work.

I was out looking for birds.

I got cold and figured I'd build a fire.

I saw a pile of junk somebody thrown out, two old automobile tires,

and a couple of cardboard cartons. I picked up one of the cartons figuring to burn it. Then I saw

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