Here are two news articles about the police investigation into the Pamela Lynn Conyers case.
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The Capitol
Tuesday, November 17, 1970
Annapolis, MD
Pamela Lynn Conyers
POLICE PURSUE MANY LEADS IN MURDER
One month today after 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers was raped and murdered police report no significant progress has been made in solving the crime.
Four detectives are assigned to the case fulltime and 200 leads are being checked out, Lt. Robert Flannery of the Anne Arundel County Police said. So far 25 suspects, some known sex offenders, have been picked up, interrogated then turned loose when their alibis checked out.
"We have leads," Flannery said, "some sound good, others don't. They'll all be run out. You never know what one's going to be the good one."
The investigation, Flannery said, is so far going with little direction. It is just a continuing process of running down leads. So far his detectives have logged about 900 man hours looking for Pamela's killer.
Clothing from the dead girl's body and soil samples vacuumed from the car were sent to the FBI crime laboratory in Washington for Analysis.
Flannery said the FBI lab report was of little help.
"It gave us a certain sense of direction," he said, but he refused to comment further.
Miss Conyers was last seen alive Friday, Oct. 16, when she left her home on Twin Ridge Dr. about 8:30 p.m. to purchase a bottle of shoe dye at Harundale Mall to match a dress she was to wear to a school dance the next evening.
A clerk at the mall reported selling the dye to the girl who was never seen alive again by anyone but her killer.
Flannery said that police theorize she was abducted when she returned to pick up the family car for the short drive to her home but they are not certain.
"No one saw a thing at the mall or anywhere else," Flannery said, "Most murder cases you at least have someone who saw something."
State and County officials began searching for the girl and the car the next day using a helicopter. Abduction was feared from the beginning.
It was late Monday afternoon when a man walking in the woods found a 1968 Dodge-- abandoned in an overgrown Pasadena field about a hundred yards off the Mountain Rd. extension near several abandoned farm buildings.
The next morning an intense search of the wooded area surrounding the overgrown and deserted farm began. It was Ptl. Robert Switzer who found the girl's body lying on her side off a little used farm road.
The tracks led into the woods, police Chief Edward Praley said, as he walked from the woods after viewing the body, that she had probably been rolled out the car door.
Flannery said that plaster casts taken of the tire tracks indicated that the car used to enter the woods was probably the Conyers family vehicle which was abandoned about 300 yards from where the girl was found.
At the scene was a tight-lipped FBI agent who was overheard talking briefly with Praley about a seemingly similar case at Ft. Meade.
A spokesman for the FBI said the murder of Joyce Helen Malecki, a 20-year-old Landsdowne office worker was uite similar.
Miss Malecki was found last November near the Little Patuxent River on Ft. Meade with her hands bound behind and her throat cut. She disappeared while on a shopping trip in Glen Burnie.
The girl's car was found abandoned in the Boomtown section of Odenton.
Flannery said that the possibility that the two crimes may have been committed by the same person has not been ruled out.
When found, the Conyer girl
s body was clad in slacks and a pullover sweater turned inside out. Missing were the girl's underwear and her purse.
Flannery said the underwear and the car keys have not been turned up.
Pamela on the right of her death, had been at a bonfire peprally at Glen Burnie High School. When she returned home, her mother, Mrs. William Conyers gave her $5 for the shoe dye and the keys to the car.
The eldest of three, she was buried at Hattiesburg, Miss.
Murder is a hard crime to solve, Flannery said, and this one, where hardly a clue has been uncovered is one of the hardest.
Assigned to the case fulltime are detectives John F. Putsche, Charles Shreiber, A. Lee Apperson and A. Wade Taylor.
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Excerpt from an article which discusses several caes:
The Capitol
Mon, Sept. 17, 1973
Annapolis, MD
5 MURDERS UNSOLVED
2 girls, 2 D.C.men, woodcutter victims....
Conyers
When 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers failed to return home after going to Harundale Mall the night of October 16, 1970 to get some shoe dye to complete her outfit for a dance at Glen Burnie High School, her parents called police.
The family car was found three days later in a wooded area in the median strip of Route 100, then under construction. Her body was found less than a quarter mile from the car early the next morning. The pretty brown haired student was strangled to death and police believe she was also raped.Her body had been thrown into trees in the deserted area, used as a lover's lane.
Police believe that her killer probably saw her get out of her car at the mall and got into the back seat while she was shopping.
The car had been wiped clean of fingerprints and no evidence was found around the body.
Keissling admitted that his men have been investigating a very good lead in the past month and refused to comment on whether a suspect is in custody...
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