COMMONWEALTH v. CAMPBELL


352 Mass. 387 (1967)

226 N.E.2d 211

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN ALLEN CAMPBELL (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

April 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Welch (Francis E. Collins, Jr., & Stephen R. Kaplan with him) for the defendant Nietsche.

Efrem A. Gordon for the defendant Campbell.

Sanford Keedy, District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.


REARDON, J.

On the morning of July 14, 1964, a railroad employee came upon the body of Cindy Lou Baxa, aged seventeen, in an area of Holyoke off Route 5 known as the dinosaur tracks. The body was nude from the waist down. On the same day a pair of slacks, underwear and sneakers belonging to the deceased girl were found in Southampton, and the following morning two pairs of underpants which she was wearing on the night of July 13 were found on a dirt road which led...

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