[News Script: Murder] Page: 1 of 4
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MURDER I . .
22 year old John Robert Whirty, charged with the
a 15 year old Dallas girl,
strangulation murder of
is returned to his Dallas County jail cell, following
his arraignment today before a Dallas Peace Justice.
Whirty, a parole violator assachusetts was
thursday with murdering Rose Marie Martin,
whose partially-nude body was found near White Rock
Lake. Whirty fled on a motorcycle, and was captured
yesterday in the West Texas town of Olton. Bill
Smith, the Olton City Judge spied the stolen motor-
cycle, and arrested Whirty, who was working as a
mechan ic.
AFTER SWISH
/V ( ,,6r// discovered the girl's body
early Thursday morning, while taking a motorbike
ride near the White Rock Lake water-plant. An
autopsy revealed the girl had been raped, then
strangled with her blouse, which was still knotted
about her neck when her corpse was found. Her mokh
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Murder], script, April 1, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc985107/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.