Showing posts with label 1946. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1946. Show all posts

Sunday, August 7, 2011

MURDERED IN 1946, BETTY WALRAVEN FINALLY ID'D

CALIFORNIA cops have identified the skeletal remains of a wild young woman murdered in May 1946 and her remains dumped in the desert. The bones were found near Baker and have been confirmed as Betty Walraven who had been murdered 65 years ago. Her great nephew Shawne Walraven said his aunt was 25 at the time she was slain (the bones were found in 1971 but remained unidentified.) Detectives have long believed they belonged to the raven-haired beauty. Shawne Walraven told Reuters that a man convicted in another murder confessed in the 1950s that a female companion had shot his great-aunt in the back of the head.
The suspect--who served time on California's death row at San Quentin-- told detectives he helped the woman dispose of Betty Walraven's body in the desert.