CANADA Canada - Pauline Dudley, 17, Oakville, Ont, 10 Aug 1973

Pauline Ivy DUDLEY
Occurrence No.: 10886-73
Age: 17

On Monday, August 10, 1973, the victim, Pauline Ivy Dudley, 17 years of age was dropped off at her parent's residence on Lakeshore Road in the Town of Oakville. Investigation revealed that she spent some time with her mother and left the residence at approximately 10:00 p.m. Pauline had indicated that she was going to return to her residence located on the Third Line, R.R. # 1 in the Town of Milton where she lived with her boyfriend. Pauline was not seen again.

On August 28, 1973 the clothed body of Pauline Dudley was located by a local farmer working his fields at the corner of Lower Base Line and Highway 25, in the Town of Oakville.

If you have any information on this case, please call the Halton Regional Police Service Homicide Unit at 905-825-4747 ext. 8760 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

http://www.haltonpolice.ca/CrimeFiles/Lists/Homicides/DispForm.aspx?ID=2

A retired police officer has written a book about the Harper-Truscott case, and he points to a suspect that he also links to Pauline's murder.

May 7 2018
https://www.insidehalton.com/news-s...akville-woman-s-killer-nearly-45-years-later/

Police still looking for Oakville woman's killer nearly 45 years later

Pauline Ivy Dudley's body found in Oakville field Aug. 28, 1973

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Halton police are hoping someone will come forward and help them catch a killer who has gone unpunished for nearly 45 years.

Pauline Ivy Dudley was just 17 when her lifeless body was found in a farmer’s field in Oakville on Aug. 28, 1973.

In describing Pauline, Halton police Det. Const. Quince Buchanan, who is assigned to this cold case, painted a picture of a young woman who was just starting to make a life for herself.

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“She was planning to hitchhike home.”

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Her body was found by a farmer working his fields at the corner of Lower Base Line and Highway 25 in Oakville on Aug. 28.

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“She was found in an advanced state of decomposition. She was fully clothed and partially buried under the hay and the wheat in that field,” said Buchanan.

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Buchanan noted efforts to conceal the body also pointed to foul play.

He said no motive was ever established for Pauline’s death — her wallet was found nearby.

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He said DNA was found at the scene, but declined to say what that DNA was.

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“If there are advances in technology CFS (Centre for Forensic Sciences) will ask us to resubmit samples that weren’t suitable before. If that is offered that is something we can do. That is an ongoing thing.”

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Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Halton police at 905-465-8768 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

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https://www.insidehalton.com/news-s...akville-woman-s-killer-nearly-45-years-later/

[h=2]Side Bar[/h] A Milton Canadian Champion article from May 8, 1974 noted Pauline Dudley was among five young women murdered in Hamilton, Halton and Mississauga during the same general time period.
The article stated both Halton and Peel police were considering the possibility that the same person was responsible for all five deaths.
Janice Montgomery, 22, who was listed as the first victim, was found near Georgetown September of 1972. She was shot in the head.
Adele Komorowski, a summer student attending McMaster University, was strangled to death in a wooded area near Brandon Hall in May of 1973.
Dudley was found in an Oakville field in late August of 1973. Her cause of death was never determined.
Constance Dickey, 19, was strangled to death in a secluded area of Erindale College in September of 1973.
The last victim Neda Novak, 18, was found dead near the Credit River in Mississauga in May of 1974.
A Streetsville resident was arrested by Peel police in August of 1974 and ultimately convicted of the murders of Novak and Dickey, as well as an attack on a third girl who survived.
When asked if the Streetville man ever came up in the Halton police investigation of Dudley’s death Det. Const. Quince Buchanan said he could not divulge names of persons who are linked to the case.

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May 3 2018

July 15 2021 lengthy article. rbbm.
BEHIND THE CRIMES: Murdered teen's friend left wondering 'what if' nearly five decades later
''Nearly 50 years after her best friend was found dead in a field, Ilona Pallagi still wonders about what could have been.

On a summer day in 1973, before Pauline Ivy Dudley disappeared on the way to her boyfriend’s place in Milton from her parents’ Oakville home on Lakeshore Road, the 17-year-old had called and asked Pallagi to hitchhike together — as the pair often did.

But Pallagi already had plans and declined.

“That was the last I talked to her,” she said, as she contemplates the what ifs and whether things would have turned out differently had she been able to go.

According to police, Pauline left Oakville at around 10 p.m. on Aug. 20, 1973. The following day, her boyfriend reported her missing. The young woman was never seen alive again. Her decomposed body was found by a farmer in a field in the area of Highway 25 and Lower Base Line in Oakville — just south of Milton — a week later on Aug. 28.

Police said Pauline was found fully clothed, with a hairline fracture in her jaw and her wallet nearby. It was determined there were efforts by the perpetrator to conceal the body under the hay and wheat in the field — all indicating foul play.

The discovery put the communities on edge. There were five young women murdered in and around Halton during the same period, all unsolved at the time.

“It kind of scared everybody in the neighbourhood around the area,” Pallagi recalled.''

''While advancement in forensic science brings hope, Bradley said that police don’t have a DNA profile for an offender in this particular case. A motive was also never established.

“Regardless of the length of time that a case sort of has been active or unsolved, we still keep it open and … we're always looking at avenues of investigation,” said Bradley. “Our homicide tip line is always open for anybody that chooses to give us information because ultimately we want to solve them all ... It's never too late to reach out.”