On Feb. 27, 1970, a road crew found the body cheerleader Marilee Ruth Burt, 15, beneath a bridge in Deer Creek Canyon in Jefferson County.
She had been strangled and suffered a blow to her skull, the Rocky Mountain News said. Her clothes and personal property were missing and there was evidence of sexual assault. The gruesome discovery was made about a mile east of Phillipsburg.
Burt vanished the evening before. She was walking home after a basketball game at Goddard Middle School in Littleton. She was last sighted talking to a person in a large, blue or green late model pickup truck along South Middlefield Road after trekking on Berry Drive and Bowles Avenue.
The murder has never been solved - and the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office is actively pursuing leads in the case more than a half century later.
"In 1998, the case was formally reviewed and evidence collected in 1970 was submitted for DNA testing," the sheriff's office said this week. "While investigators pursued multiple leads, subsequent analysis eliminated those individuals as suspects."
The ninth grader and her family resided at 30 Wedge Way in Columbine Valley. Her father was the general manager of an auto dealership.
At the time of the murder, police saw similarities to the March 1968 strangling death of an Englewood High School student who was also walking home. The body Constance Marie Paris, 18, was found in a gully in Bear Creek Park. The Paris murder went cold, too.
If you have even the smallest bit of information to share, contact the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office (303) 795-4711 or Coldcase@arapahoegov.com
[Photos: Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office]
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