interestingly enough, those braids are identical in appearance to a photograph that was actually obtained from the camera of michelle wallace when it was recovered in 1974 from the pueblo police department who had recovered it from a pawnshop. again, the case stalled. the hair, while promising, looked to be a dead end. another decade passed and the case grew cold yet again. until a homicide investigator, cathy ireland, discovered something in the evidence file that had been overlooked. so i came across a hair brush that had been bagged and sealed and it had michelle wallace s name on it. and the forensic evidence it contained changed the course of the investigation.
the fact that the dog obviously had been separated from her and found dead later was of great concern because people felt clearly michelle wallace never would have willingly been separated from her dog. another ranch hand came forward with even more information. he said michelle gave him a ride in the mountains after his car broke down. he said his friend, roy, sat in the front seat with michelle, and that he was in the back seat with the german shepherd. the ranch hand remembers the dog in particularly because he had to sit in the back seat of the station wagon with the dog. and amusingly recalled the dog drooling on him as his new buddy, roy, in the front struck up the conversation with the girl. he said michelle dropped him off at a local bar and she was taking roy further down the road to his truck.
i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. cold case investigators discovered an unfortunate oversight. when michelle wallace disappeared, no one thought to compare samples from her hair brush to the braided hair found in the mountains. so everything was sent to joseph snyder for forensic analysis. under a microscope, snyder
but she decided to try her hand at landscape photography, and she headed to the mountainous wilderness owestern colorado. she rode polo ponies and branded cows and went rock climbing and was a student at the rochester institute and was quite a student of photography. she was a realist and she knew how to face things and worked through them. michelle faithfully called her parents almost every day to let them know where she was and what she was doing. but when several days passed without a call, her parents became alarmed. i knew that she didn t run off. you know, they said, well, this is one of these girls that, you know, just decides she s a free spirit and off she goes. she was not that way.
almost 20 years after michelle wallace s disappearance, a team of forensic specialists searching through the high-altitude forests of western colorado found a human skull. nearby were other human bones identified by a forensic anthropologist as those from a female in her late teens to mid-20s. this woman had been thrown from the road and come to rest against the tree. her body, her bones, were found in such a manner as to indicate exactly how she had come to rest. one of the scientists tested this hypothesis by dropping a bucket from the road at the top of the hill.