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DENVER — Police on a cold case hunt have finally identified a woman whose nude and battered body was found along a creek 55 years ago but it's not closed — they want to name the killer.  She was buried under a headstone that read "Jane Doe" and remained anonymous until a DNA test revealed that she was Dorothy Gay Howard of Phoenix, officials announced Wednesday. She had been reported missing in March 1954.

The ID was resolved by the Boulder County Sheriff's Department, Internet research and the persistence of local historian Silvia Pettem. Sheriff Joe Pelle, whose department renewed efforts five years ago to find out who she was, said a relatives provided the genetic sample.  Sheriff's Cmdr. Rick Brough said it was gratifying to finally know who the woman was. But he added "it's not closed yet;" the department still wants to find Howard's killer.  "With her identification, a major piece of the puzzle has been added," said detective Steve Ainsworth, the lead investigator.  Officials say serial killer Harvey Glatman, executed in 1959 in California, might have murdered Howard. Glatman, who confessed to killing three women, had served time in a Colorado state prison for violent assaults on woman.

This story so sad to hear, dead for 55 years and no name, no identity, no well nothing but a Jane Doe.  Apart that this has been a half a decade later and the testing in genetics is so fantastic and close.  We have come along way against the CSI's and NCIS on local television they are only a part of the big picture.  I can't imagine loosing a loved one and not knowing anything before I was to die especially if it were my child.  Hopefully she did't suffer or anthing such a pain that would put her in agony.  I wouldn't want anybody to die under these circumstances and to think that they have an idea who may have killed her, some closure bu tto me it wouldn't be enough. 

The reason why I feel this way is because as I was younger wanted so to be an under cover cop in homicide because of these types of cases and help solve them and help the family be at piece.  Being a cop in the US Army was enough I just couldn't imagine trying it now, life is to short I mean I couldn't fathom life without closure.  I sit here and wonder this poor women can be at peace with identification after this many years but not for her killer.