Murder ‘victim’ found alive

THE suspected victim of a 1950s murder in the US has been found alive in Australia.

Katharine Farrand Dyer was thought to have been “Boulder Jane Doe” – a woman found beaten to death, possibly by Harvey Glatman, the so-called Lonely Hearts Killer.

But carers for an 84-year-old woman in Queensland made a chance discovery identifying her as the suspected dead woman.

The unidentified body of Boulder Jane Doe was found near Boulder, Colorado, in 1954.

Police had long believed the woman to be Ms Dyer, who disappeared at around the same time.

Some believe she may have been a victim of Glatman, who was convicted and executed over three murders in the 1950s.

But yesterday, the Boulder County Sheriff’s office conceded the most likely candidate for the murder was in fact alive.

In Queensland, carers preparing to move the woman they knew as Barbara stumbled across an address book belonging to Katherine Farrand Dyer.

A quick internet search linked her to the suspected murder victim and led them to Silvia Pettem, the author of a book on the Boulder Jane Doe case.

The writer tracked down relatives of Ms Dyer who fleshed out how she came to be living in Australia.