covered her body in AXW8XI% the well. A rancher todd the investiga-
tors that he had pulled a car out of a ditch with a damaged fender
on the day following the murder and he was able to give a description
of both the car and its driver. Police checked with various garages
in Pueblo and discpvered the automobile which Fearn had taken in for
repairs, At first he.denied any.knowledge of the crime and claimed
that he had never seen Miss Porter, but when his figperprints were
found to match those found.on the awl, he confessed. Convicted and
sentenced to death, he was asppyxiated in Colorado's gas chamber on
Octe C3» 1912.
DETECTIVE FILES, May, -197. "A Sadist's Dream Come True." by Beb
Starbuck. Page 6.
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ure a Girl." by George Vedder Jones. Page 37,
covered her body in AX¥SXX¥ the well. A rancher todd the investiga-
tors that he had pulled a car out of a ditch with a damaged fender
on-the day following the murder and he was able_to give a description
of both the car and its driver. Police checked with various garages
in Pueblo and discpvered the automobile which Fearn had taken in for
repairs, At first he denied any. knowledge of the crime and claimed
that he had never seen Miss Porter, but when his figgerprints were
found to match those found.on the awl, he confessed. Convicted and
sentenced to death, he was-asppyxiated in Colorado's gas chamber on
Octs 23, 192.
DETECTIVE FILES, May, 197). "A Sadist's Dream Come True." by Beb
Starbuck. Page 6.
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covered her body in KXHSXI the well, A rancher todd the investiga-
tors that he had pulled a car out of a ditch with a damaged fender
on the day following the mrder and he was able to give-a description
of both the car and its driver. Police checked with various garages
in Pueblo and discpvered the automobile which Fearn had taken in for
repairs, At first he denied any.knowledge of the crime and claimed
that he had never seen Miss Porter, but when his fipgerprints were
found to match those found.on the awl, he confessed. Convicted and
sentenced. to death, he was asphyxiated in Colorado's gas chamber on
Oct. 23, 19426
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Starbuck. Page 6.
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Fearn, a 23-year-old white brakeman for the Santa Fe Railroad, lived
in Pueblo, Calo. where he became fascinated by the primitive Peni-
tente religious sect of the Bueblo Indians which tortured its mem-
bers and practiced human sacrafice, A sadist, he had envisioned
kidnapping and torturing young ladies and had even selected victims
but always backed out at the last mimte. On the eveing of April
22 , 191.2, he accosted a 17-year-old nursing student, Alice Porter,
who was walking home, and forced her at gunpoint into his automobile
which he drove up into the mountains to the Penitente Morado, the
abandoned center of the extinct secte He BOAKAXEKS forced the girl
to strip and then bound her with wire that he had. heated until it
was red hot and then tortured her by slabhing her body with a knife
and stabbing it with an awl. He then raped her and bludgeoned her
to death with a hammer before throwihg her body into an aba ndoned
well nearby. Miss Porter's father,a retired Pueblo detettive, re-
ported her missing the ARG night of her disappearance, and wit-
nesses came forward who told of having heard a girl scream and see-
ing a sports car drive off rapddly ahout the time that she disappear=
ede On a hunch, officers went out to the Penitente Morada and found
evidence of the ordeal to which the girl had been subjected and dis-
‘FEARN, Donald H.
Fearn, a 23-year-old white brakeman for the Santa Pe Railroad, lived
in Pueblo, Colo. where he became fascinated by the priminive Peni-
tente religious sect of the Bueblo Indians which tortured its mem-
bers and practiced human sacrafice. A sadist, he had envisioned
kidnapping and torturing young ladies and had even selected victims
but always backed out at the last mimte. On the eveing of April
22h, 19:2, he accosted a 17-year-old nursing student, Alice Porter,
who was walking home, and forced her at gunpoint into his automobile
which he drove up into the mountains to the Penitente Morado, the
abandoned center of the extinct sect. He BSRHAXXKS forced the girl
to strip and then bound her with wire that he had. heated until it
was red hot and then tortured her by slakhing her body with a knife
and stabbing it with an awl. He then raped her and bludgeoned her
to death with a hammer before throwihg her body into an aba ndoned
well nearby. Miss Porter's fatherysa retired Pueblo detettive, re-
ported her missing the AMQUXE night of her disappearance, and wit-
nesses came forward who told of having heard a girl scream and see-
ing a sports car drive off rapiidly ahout the time that she disappear
ede Ona hunch, officers went out to the Penitente Morada and found
evidence of the ordeal to which the girl had been subjected and dis-
FEARN, Donald Hy
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in Pueblo, Solo,, where he became fascinated by the primitive Peni-
tente religious sect’ of the Rueblo Indians which tortured its mem-
bers and practiced human sacrafice, A sadist, he had envisioned
kidnapping and torturing young ladies and had even selected victims
but always backed out at the last mimte, On the eveing of April
22 , 1942, he accosted a 17-year-old nursing student, Alice Porter,
who was walling home, and forced her at gunpoint into his automobile
which he drove up into the mountains to the Penitente Morado, the
abandoned center of the extinct sect. forced the girl
to strip and then bound her with wire that he had heated until it
was red hot and then tortured her by slakhing her body with a knife
and stabbing it with an awl, He then raped her and bludgeoned her
to death with a hammer before throwihg her body into an aba ndoned
well nearby. Miss Porter's father,a retired Pueblo detettive, re-
ported her missing the WAGOG night of her Eee aes) and wit-
nesses cane forward who told of having heard a girl screan a
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