LAST HOURS TRACED

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31967, 19 April 1969, Page 13

LAST HOURS TRACED

Four Slain Girls f.V.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) (Michigan), April 18. ' Police investigating the ; ’ savage slayings of five girls . in less than two years said I yesterday they had traced ’ 1 four of the victims—in the , ! last hours of their lives—to 1 within a few blocks of East- - - ern Michigan University at, : nearby Ypsilanti. The bodies of four of the J five girls were found in a | wooded area east of Ann Arbor and north of Ypsilanti. All four trails, both the cold- ! est and the freshest, led back to within four blocks of the ' Emu Student Union. J Sheriff Douglas Harvey said all four girls apparently! were picked up in that area ’ by someone in a car. Their I , nude or nearly nude bodies < . —stabbed, beaten and choked • . —were dumped within a few ' miles of each other. 1 . The latest victim also was | . the youngest—Dawn Basom.j ! aged 13. a pretty eighth-grade pupil at an Ypsilanti Junior ' High School, lived within - sight of the Emu Student Union. She was seen within I a few blocks of her home, j hurrying toward it, at dusk | on Tuesday. It was the last time she was reported seen • alive.