Here it is:
http://cnnnancygrace.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/00641.jpg
This is the possible match to Dorothy Clitheroe missing from Phoenix. You can see the bruise on the right leg above the knee and possible bruising on the left leg. I don't see any writing on her arm except something that looks like the letter "D". She's pointing to it. According to her Charley Project page, one of Dorothy's forearms was scarred due to her backing into a hot radiator and the name "US Steel" was imprinted into her skin, but most of it was gone by 1973. The letter "U" might have been the only one still showing. Could what looks like a "D" in the pic actually be a "U"?
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/clitheroe_dorothy.html
I think it could be a "U" also. If she backed into the radiator kind of sideways and the fron of her arm hit it, the "U" would be facing with the curved part pointing to her wrist. With her arm lifted the way it is, the "U" is in that position. I think this is very possible. Good find.:dance:
I just had a horrible thought. Is it possible he had already threatened and/or beat her before taking her to some deserted location to shoot these photos? Did she have a premontion that she might not come out of this safely and wanted someone to identify her photo by the "U" imprinted on her forearm?
Or am I just reading too much into all this?
The woman in this picture is smiling and looks playful. If she thought she was about to die, I can't imagine she would have a lighthearted expression. She would be in survival mode.I just had a horrible thought. Is it possible he had already threatened and/or beat her before taking her to some deserted location to shoot these photos? Did she have a premontion that she might not come out of this safely and wanted someone to identify her photo by the "U" imprinted on her forearm?
Not if she thinks she is giving him what he wants and it buys her time to come up with an idea, IMO.The woman in this picture is smiling and looks playful. If she thought she was about to die, I can't imagine she would have a lighthearted expression. She would be in survival mode.
The girl in the engineer shorts (blue and white stripes) in the pic that looks like it has been taken through a red filter has very ugly bruising on both legs. Her right leg has two round marks the size of fists and her left leg has a band of bruising that is quite a few inches long and at least an inch wide. She also has a left ankle that is so swollen looking that it is hard to discern an ankle bone but when I see that same ankle in her other pic it looks normal, so idk. Maybe it was just the way she was standing. (From memory here, apologies if slightly off.) And that is one of two pic's where I believe the subject has writing on her arm, perhaps it says "Alcala" or something. I can see it but can't read it. She is pointing to it even.
Did anyone call this in?
I wish we knew exactly where the scar was, you can see something on her stomach but its hard to tell if its a scar.
[SIZE=+1]DOROTHY MILDRED CLITHEROE[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Age Progression[/SIZE] Case Type: Endangered Missing DOB: Aug 6, 1959Sex: FemaleMissing Date: Sep 20, 1973Race: WhiteAge Now: 50Height: 5'3" (160 cm)Missing City: PHOENIXWeight: 130 lbs (59 kg)Missing State : AZHair Color: BrownMissing Country: United StatesEye Color: BrownCase Number: NCMC942383Circumstances: Dorothy's photo is shown age-progressed to 49 years. She was last seen on September 20, 1973 at Cortez Park in Phoenix, Arizona. She was wearing Levi bell bottom jeans and a white tank top with a pattern of upside down multi-colored teardrop shapes. She wore thick eyeglasses and had pierced ears but it is unknown if she was wearing any jewelry when she disappeared. She may have had the remnants of a "US Steel" scar on one of her forearms from backing into a hot radiator. It is possible only the letter "U" was still visible.
She has a burn scar on her arm but nothing mentioned on her leg. That could be a bruise -- I used to have marks like that on my thighs all the time back in the days when I played softball.
I agree, tatertot.
Her expression reminds me of the way I look without my glasses. Sort of disoriented. Did Clitheroe normally wear glasses?
I'm going to (very respectfully) disagree with those who think she looks badly beated and under duress. IMHO, her smile matches her professional/yearbook photo and school pictures aren't taken under duress so she is probably smiling genuinely. Sadly, if this girl is identified as a victim, I don't think she had any idea who she was posing for at the time this photo was taken and she was just innocently clowning for the camera.
She looks like she has an athletic build -- see the "bodybuilder" pose photo. Also, note the distance she was from Alcala, who might have also been behind a tripod. If she felt threatened at that moment in time I think she would have easily outrun him. If she had been beaten badly I don't think she could have balanced on the rock so easily. Those probably are real bruises, though; I just think she got them somewhere else and possibly from an accident rather than violence.
Very good observations on the writing/markings on what could be the Clitheroe girl.
I can tell you this, "back in the day" when I was a runaway I kept my ss# written on the bottom of my foot with black permanent marker, along with all kinds of other strange things to try and be sure if I disappeared I might be identified. Strange how we think at 14 years of age. It rarely occurred to me I would not be found in time to still have flesh... My trivia for the day, just trying to show you that yes she may very well be thinking like that.
wow, do you know if that is/was a common practice among runaways? I've never heard of that before ...