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http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/29/build/state/25-justice.inc
Excellent article about the case. I don't know what family name she went by - Martin is the name her older brother uses, Dugan is her stepfather's name - the article never says.
Lots of details about the case, how the family feels about the case being reopened, etc.. Good read.
Lora Jean was a runaway. Her body was found 3 weeks later, 250 miles from home.
Excellent article about the case. I don't know what family name she went by - Martin is the name her older brother uses, Dugan is her stepfather's name - the article never says.
Lots of details about the case, how the family feels about the case being reopened, etc.. Good read.
Lora Jean was a runaway. Her body was found 3 weeks later, 250 miles from home.
She had also been sexually assaulted according to the article.Lora Jean had been found by a rancher checking his cattle on rangeland adjacent to Interstate 94, Dugan said. Nearby, a scenic stop off the highway overlooks the North Dakota badlands. Cornell surmised that the killer had stopped at the lookout and Lora Jean tried to escape by running toward some buildings in the distance. She was caught at a barbed-wire fence.
Her body was found under an old cedar tree a few paces off a worn cattle path. A cross she wore around her neck was found dangling in the tree, and her clothes were strewn on her body. She had been strangled and stabbed in the abdomen, Dugan said.
The investigation into the girl's murder was reopened in late November when North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem announced the creation of a cold-case investigations squad. Lora Jean's death is one of 15 unsolved murders and missing-persons cases in North Dakota selected for review by the team.
The cold-case investigators have retrieved the original case file and located the evidence collected where Lora Jean's body was found, including her clothing