Daylight was fading on March 14th, 1968.

Though the sun was sinking fast, a few young boys were still out playing,

exploring a large dirt field at the corner of Newland Street and Yorktown Avenue in Huntington Beach, California.

Today, that intersection is covered by rows and rows of single-story houses with terracottetiled roofs.

But in March of 1968, there wasn't a house in sight.

Instead, it was oil field after oil field with drainage ditches in between.

On that day, as the boys played, they spotted something unusual in one of the ditches.

The boys later said that they had believed they were seeing a scarecrow fallen from its post into the ditch,

but as they approached, the truth of what lay there between oil fields was made clear.

It was the body of a young woman. The woman appeared to have been dead for just a few hours and had been brutally attacked.

Investigators scoured the scene for clues, finding shoe imprints, marks from tires, and a cigarette butt.

But it had rained the night before, and so any other evidence left behind had likely washed

away.

Huntington Beach Police labeled the woman a Jane Doe and set out to

investigate her identity and her death, but the woman found there would not have

her name returned to her for more than half a century. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Anita

Louise Pateau on Dark Down East. The 1960s in the United States represented significant cultural upheaval as the country faced

tensions between more traditional conservative values and newer non-conformist

lifestyles. The tensions between these beliefs were all bookended by the war in Vietnam.

For many young people in the United States during the period, the decision to enter the Vietnam War

highlighted the importance of peaceful values and sparked many anti-conflict

protests. These years were also full of youth living a nomadic lifestyle and exploring the world. In 2016, speaking retrospectively, Huntington Beach

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