
Acknowledgements:
Thanks go to Todd Matthews for sending me the initial information about this case, his continuing help in the investigation, and the photograph of the Tent Girl's grave... and thanks also go out to Rosemary Westbrook for sending me the follow-up articles after the Tent Girl's identification. Rosemary's website includes links to a variety of web pages and resources to help people searching for lost loved ones; visit it at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/1096/index.html.
Thanks are also due to Kathi Farmer and Fred Bomberger, for locating newspaper articles for me.
Sources:
1) Kentucky newspaper, between May 17 and
May 24, 1968
Body Not
Identified
2) Pennsylvania newspaper, April14, 1968
Girl's Body Is Found In Bucks
1998, March 10 - DNA may solve mystery of lost sister, found body, by Rodney Bowers
1998, April 23 - DNA tests solve puzzle of 'tent girl', Associated Press
1998, April 26 - Identified remains of 'tent girl' reburied, Associated Press
1998, April 23 - Mystery of tent girl solved after 30 years, by staff and wire reports
1998, April 30 - 'Tent Girl' story to appear on CBS' '48 Hours', by Beth Smith
1998, February 18 - Sheriff gets lead in tent girl case, by Byron Brewer
1998, March 4 - Body of Tent Girl exhumed, by Melissa Nipper
1998, April 22 - Tent Girl identity may be told today, by Bryon Brewer
1998, April 24 - Identity of Tent Girl revealed, by Bryon Brewer
1998, April 24 - Long wait over for family, by Melissa Nipper
1998, April 24 - Tent Girl results bring relief to deputy, by Melissa Nipper
1998, April 26 - Family, community mourn Tent Girl, by ? Dalton
1998, April 26 - Who was Barbara Hackmann Taylor?, by Byron Brewer
1968, June 5 - Is Body That Of Doris
Dittmar?, by Ralph Maurer & Sidney Hisel
1968, June 12 - "Tent Girl" Case Dormant
Dead Woman Found Here Still Unidentified
1968, May 18 - Tarp-Wrapped Nude Body Of
Girl Is Found In Scott
1968, May 20 - Nude Girl's Body Still
Unidentified
1968, April 14 - Girl's Body Is Found
In Bucks


