15 juill. 1973 - Carolyn Nadine Davis

Description:

15yo; last seen July 15, hitchhiking near the Highway 101 ramp, southbound, in Garberville

July 31: body found in Santa Rosa, just 3ft from where the remains of Sterling and Weber had been discovered 7mo prior. Her COD was strychnine poisoning, 10-14 days before discovery, and her probable DOD is stated as July 20. There was no trace of heroin or amphetamines in her system.

She had an injury to her right earlobe, seemingly an attempted ear piercing. Her left earlobe had not been pierced.
















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In February 1975 the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) issued a special report titled "Unsolved Female Homicides: An Analysis of a Series of Related Murders in California and Western America." The report indicated that, "After evaluating more than one hundred murder cases involving female victims, it appears that thirteen of these crimes" -- with fourteen victims total -- "were committed by the same person. Each of the thirteen cases occurred in Northern California within the past five years. As of this writing, the suspect remains unknown and the cases unsolved" (pp4 of pdf). The report summarized all thirteen cases, noted observations and similarities, created a suspect profile, and included a map of all of the cases.

The cases were:
- The six then-known cases -- with seven victims -- of the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders (1972-1973): Maureen Sterling & Yvonne Weber, Kim Wendy Allen, Lori Lee Kursa, Carolyn Davis, and Theresa Walsh.
- The four 1973 San Francisco victims: Rosa Vasquez, Yvonne Quilantang, Angela Thomas, and Nancy Gidley.
- The 1969 murder of Leona LaRell Roberts
- The 1970 murder of Marie Antoinette Anstey
- The 1971 murder of Linda Susan Dudley
- The 1974 murder of Donna Maria Braun

The report's summary of Carolyn's case is as follows:
"On July 15, 1973, Caroline [sic] Nadine Davis was last seen leaving her grandmother's house in Garberville, hitchhiking south on US Highway 101. Her nude body was discovered on July 31, 1973, at the same remote location where the remains of Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber were found on December 28, 1972. She had apparently been dumped over the roadside emabnkment after being murdered at some unknown location. None of her clothing has ever been located. Death was caused by strychnine poisoning. It is unknown if the victim had been sexually assaulted."

Also included in the report was a possible out-of-state connection involving the disappearances of eight young women in Washington and Oregon since January 1974, as well as the murders of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund. The only copy of the report that I could find online has some of the last few (ten or so) pages missing, though other reports are also included in the pdf. Because of this, only a few of the Washington-Oregon cases remain: Janice Ott, Denise Naslund, Lynda Ann Healy, and Donna Gail Manson. All four of these young women were later determined to have been murdered by serial killer Ted Bundy.









Penumbral lunar eclipse visible from San Francisco on July 15 from 3:49:04am to 5:28:11am
JULY 15
LUNAR PHASE: full moon
ZODIAC SIGN: cancer
DAY OF WEEK: Sunday
Penumbral lunar eclipse 3:40

JULY 20
LUNAR PHASE: waning gibbous
ZODIAC SIGN: cancer
DAY OF WEEK: Friday

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