CA QUARTZ HILL JANE DOE: WF, 16-25, found in creek bed near Quartz Hill, CA - 2 March 1981 - Possibly named Cathy

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1363UFCA - Unidentified Female​

Date of Discovery: March 2, 1981
Location of Discovery: Quartz Hill, Los Angeles County, California
Estimated Date of Death: 2 months - 2 years prior
State of Remains: Skeletal
Cause of Death: Homicide by gunshot

Physical Description​

Estimated Age: 16-25 years old
Race: White
Sex: Female
Height: 5'3"
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: High forehead; small boned, slight build.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available. Lower right side molar missing; upper left side molar missing. Slight overbite.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Insufficient DNA for profiling

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: No clothing located, but possibly wore a maroon sweater-type dress, with a white bolero jacket over it. Little red hearts or flowers on the dress. White cowboy boots. (Clothing described by suspects.)
Jewelry: None.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown.

Circumstances of Discovery​

The victim was located 9/10 of a mile East of Bouquet Canyon Road, on Artesian Springs Road, Quartz Hill, CA. She is a victim of the Sunset Murders, Doug Clark and Carol Bundy, convicted in 1983.

The suspects picked the victim up near the intersection of Highland and Franklin streets, in Hollywood, CA. She allegedly said her name was "Cathy." The victim was shot, and the remains found strewn along a riverbed in a very remote area.

Other victims of this span of murders include 1322UFCA and 1225UFCA.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Los Angeles County Coroner
Agency Contact Person: Daniel Machian
Agency Phone Number: 323-343-0512
Agency E-Mail: dmachian(at)coroner.lacounty.gov
Agency Case Number: 1981-3004

Agency Name: Los Angeles County Homicide Unit
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 323-890-5500
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: Jane Doe #28; 81-02512-1156-011

NCIC Case Number: U770525570
NamUs Case Number: 4348
Former Hot Case Number: 1157

Information Source(s)​

NamUs
Los Angles County Coroner
LASD

1363UFCA

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Possible candidates

Cathy Marie Moulton missing in 1971 from Maine

20DFME - Cathy Marie Moulton

Kathy Sue Wilcox missing in 1972 from Michigan

1367DFMI - Kathy Sue Wilcox

Catherine Lynne Sjoberg missing in 1974 from Wisconsin
The Doe Network: Case File 1311DFWI

Katherine Barnum missing in 1979 from Colorado

3450DFCO - Katherine Sue Barnum

Old articles
https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AAIBAJ&pg=6347,140324&dq=sunset-murders&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&pg=6763,6687559&dq=sunset-murders&hl=en

https://news.google
.com/newspapers?id=wW8RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XuIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5738,5982810&dq=sunset-strip-slayings&hl=en


and an old article

MASS KILLER'S LOVER ADMITS 2 SLAYINGS SAYS SHE SHOT MAN, DECAPITATED CORPSE
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Wednesday, May 4, 1983
Author: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

In a surprise confession, a lover of Sunset Slayer Douglas Clark has admitted decapitating her former sweetheart and killing a prostitute.

Carol Mary Bundy, 40, a vocational nurse from suburban Burbank, tearfully pleaded guilty to two first-degree murder counts moments before her trial was to begin.

She had previously pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to charges she shot and decapitated her former lover, John Robert Murray, in 1980, and that she helped Clark kill a still-unidentified prostitute.

Murray was shot to death by Bundy, who told officers "it's really fun to do." She decapitated his body with a boning knife so police could not trace the bullet. The head has never been found.

She once told investigators she was "sort of half-way in love" with Murray, but decided to kill him to make sure he did not testify against Clark, her live-in lover.

Bundy was also charged with helping Clark kill a prostitute whose skeleton was found in a rural canyon in 1981.

Clark, 34, a former factory worker from Burbank, was sentenced in March to die for the murders of six young women. Prosecutors said some of the killings involved necrophilia, and the head of one victim was kept at Clark's home in a freezer.

Bundy, who testified against Clark, will be sentenced May 31. She faces terms of 52 years to life.