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Geraldine “ Gerry” E Butts
Case #: O-51-07139

Age / Sex / Race: 27 / Female / White Location of Homicide: Near a tavern off Sandy Hook Road County: Washington Date / Time: 3 / 20 / 1983 Cause of Death: Blunt Force Details: Gerry Butts left a tavern in Boonsboro with the intent of walking home to Brunswick. Somewhere between those two locations, Mrs. Butts met her attacker(s) who took her to the Sandy Hook area of Washington Co. Evidence shows Mrs. Butts was killed at that location and placed in the Potomac River. Her remains were recovered from the river on 04-22-1983. Investigator: Detective Sergeant John Cook
Maryland State Police - Cold Case Unit
1201 Reisterstown Road
Pikesville, Maryland 21208
410-290-0050
jgcook@mdsp.org

http://www.mdsp.org/hsib/cold_case_details.asp?identifier=7
 
Not much, but a little more information about Gerry's whereabouts before she was killed.

Arrest leads to review of unsolved murders
Frederick News Post
By Pamela Rigaux
May 20, 2010
The cases include an unidentified woman whose battered body was found along I-270 in Frederick County in 1991 and Brunswick resident Geraldine Butts, 27, whose body was found in the Potomac River on April 22, 1983, according to Frederick News-Post archives.

Butts was killed sometime after 2 a.m. March 20, and police concluded the body was thrown into the Potomac River near Old Salty Dog Tavern at Sandy Hook, according to News-Post archives. She was a house cleaner, a mother and a wife. She was last seen walking south on Md. 67 near Netz Road.
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Also mentioned in an article posted here:

Police from Md., Pa. review cold cases - Cold Case Investigations
 

Geraldine (Gerry) E Butts​

Age: 27
Race: White
Sex: Female
Date Reported Missing:
Date of Death:
Date of Recovery: 4/22/1983
Cause: Blunt Force
County: Allegany
Referring Case Number: O-51-07139
Gerry Butts left a tavern in Boonsboro, Washington County, MD with the intent of walking home to Brunswick in Frederick County, MD. Somewhere between Boonsboro and Brunswick, Gerry Butts met her attacker(s) who took her to the Sandy Hook area of Washington County, MD. It is believed Gerry Butts was killed in the Sandy Hook area of Washington County and then placed in the Potomac River. The remains of Gerry Butts was recovered from the Potomac River on 4/22/1983.
Contact Information for this case:
Maryland State Police Homicide
 
I found this article with several important details and the photo of Gerry Butts.

Geraldine Butts.jpg


In a certain stretch of the Potomac River, the portion that flows into Harpers Ferry, it's quiet, serene, breathtaking.

It's also holding answers to a dark secret --- what happened to 27-year-old Geraldine Butts in March 1983.

"She had very traumatic blunt force trauma to her head using some kind of blunt, sharper blunt -- not a blade, but something that was sharper than a pipe or something like that," Sgt. David Sexton, with Maryland State Police, said.

Sexton is in charge of MSP's cold case unit.


'Gerry,' as she was known, was with her husband visiting friends in Boonsboro. The men eventually went out to play pool and stayed out too late, upsetting Gerry.

She then dropped her kids off with a friend and went out for a drink of her own at the Boone Tavern in town.

That's when she decided she was going to head back.

"She was seen several times. There was a truck seen on 67 near a house that her and her husband had rented before, but nothing else until 8 o'clock that next morning," Sexton said.


According to police reports, the last time anyone saw Geraldine alive was on Route 67 right outside of Boonsboro. A deputy stopped her and asked if she wanted a ride home and she told him, she'd rather walk, so the deputy drove off. Little did he know, her home was miles away.

It wasn't until the next morning that there'd be a clue as to what happened.

Fishermen out near the Potomac noticed something -- it was blood.

"Two fishermen are walking across a little foot bridge from a little tavern down in Brunswick near the Potomac River. They're walking across and see large amounts of blood, a blood trail leading down to the river. They don't report it right away because she wasn't reported missing until about a day later," Sexton said.

Authorities typed the blood.

For a month, it was an all out search for Gerry until someone noticed something wrapped around a tree a little upstream --- it was her -- bludgeoned to death.

Crucial evidence was washed away.

 
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