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The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,
California - March 6, 1972 |
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The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,
California - March 8, 1972 |
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The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,
California - March 9, 1972 |
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The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,
California - March 10, 1972 |
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The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,
California - March 12, 1972 |
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The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,
California - March 13, 1972 |
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The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,
California - April 27, 1972 |
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Kim was the only victim
where it was positively known there was a sexual
assault. Kim's body was found the day |
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after her disappearance
unlike the others who were found from more than a week to
months after their disappearances. |
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The place where her body
was found was in southeast Santa Rosa. The others
were found in the northern area. |
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Epilogue |
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Kim
was survived by her mother and father, a sister and
brother. Her parents were |
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divorced at the time of her death and lived on opposite
sides of the Bay Area. |
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This is the
first time (November 2009) that these newspaper articles,
digitally restored from microfilm, and other documents have ever |
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been posted on the Internet. To obtain
these images for free use please contact:
Deborah Silva. |
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Update |
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I
recently (May 2011) spoke to John Bly, one of the people
who found Kim Allen's body. I wanted to get
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better idea of the circumstances surrounding where and
how Kim was found. |
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I learned from John that there
were actually three people who found her body. John, his
girlfriend and another friend were out |
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riding on two motorcycles. The
three decided to pull over for a rest as they were
heading north on their way home after a bike |
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ride that took them around the
back roads of east Sonoma County. They pulled over on
the shoulder of the narrow road. There |
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was no turnout but just enough
room along the side of the road for the motorcycles to
park, about a three-foot wide shoulder. |
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John wandered a few feet from
where they were parked and looked over the side of the
steep embankment. It was then that he |
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spotted Kim's body. It would have
been very hard to spot from a car just driving by. John
told me that it was not at a creek bed |
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as is stated in some of the
reports. He also told me that Kim was not at the bottom
of the embankment but about midway down |
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and she seemed to be caught on
shrubbery growing there. There was a lot of undergrowth
at the bottom of the embankment and |
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it seemed to John that if the
killer had wanted to hide Kim's body he could have
easily done so. |
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John walked a little ways around
to go down towards Kim to see if possibly she might
still be alive. He took care not to go |
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directly down the embankment. He
did not notice any footprints that would have been left
if someone had carried Kim to place |
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her where she was found. He was
able to determine that Kim was deceased from a few feet
away because of the unnatural |
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position of her neck. He did not
touch Kim or disturb the scene in anyway. John observed
that there were bruises on Kim's neck |
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but he did not see any bruising on
her wrists or ankles. He did say that it was a surreal
situation and he just may not have |
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noticed the condition of her
wrists and ankles. |
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At that point John and his fellow
riders knew they needed to call the sheriff's
department. John took off north on his bike |
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and stopped at the nearest house
about half a mile away while the other two stayed with
Kim's body. The resident at the |
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home phoned the sheriff and
described the location to them for John as John was not
exactly certain where they were on |
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Enterprise Road. |
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Once the authorities arrived they
were each briefly questioned by law enforcement and they
left not long afterwards. There |
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was no further contact with the
sheriff's department. They were not asked to come to the
department and sign statements. |
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The following report is from the
Sonoma County Sheriff's Office and it was done at the
time |
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law enforcement was looking at Ted
Bundy as a possible suspect for the murders of the young
women. |
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This report is courtesy of Tom
Voigt, Webmaster of ZodiacKiller.com. |
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