On a July afternoon in 1971, two boys riding a minibike in the Maryland countryside came upon a half-naked woman lying injured in a field.
She was unconscious and had trouble breathing. Her hair and fingernails were dirty, perhaps from crawling, and her sunburn indicated she’d been there for hours. She wore only a blouse and bra. Her underwear and slip were in weeds nearby but the rest of her clothes were missing. Howard County police found no handbag, no wallet, nothing with her name, and in the miles of farmland surrounding the field, they could find no witnesses.
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