10.28.09
St Louis Escorts: Horrific Cold Case Haunts St. Louis Detectives
As they made their way through the heaps of trash at their feet, the men looked down — and immediately realized they were standing in the midst of one of the most ghastly crime scenes their city has ever known.
Lying face down in the furnace room, her pants removed, hands tied behind her back — and her head nowhere in sight — is how the two unsuspecting scavengers found the body of a young, African-American female on February 28, 1983.
Frightened and beyond mortified, the men ran from the darkness out into the street, calling the cops from the first phone they could find. Though police quickly swarmed the area, her killer would evade them.
Investigators never could have imagined for just how long.
Responding officers initially thought the victim might have been a local prostitute. That is, until they turned the body over and realized it was a pre-pubescent girl. From their estimates, she was anywhere from 8 to 13 years old.