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ROCHESTER EEMCCFAT CHHCI.IOS Sur.dTf, I 1953 1 LV Somebody Knows! The Sunday Democrat and Chronicle today reviews the third in its series of five unsolved area murder cases, in each of which it is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Jf you have any information about any of these cases you are urged to submit it to authorities immediately. If you wish to remain unidentified, you are invited to use The personal letter code. See details at the bottom of this page. Next Sunday: The case of Robert Forman, 18, of Pitts-ford, found shot to death in Ellison Park in September, 1940.

3-The Joanne Lynn Case JOANNE LYNX after 14 yeart, her tlayer ttill is fought wo- -f-jwawawx. IB Your silent partner in his future By JACK TUCKER High above the shimmering waters of Conesus Lake, a email headstone overlooking the west shore bears the epitaph: "Joanne daughter of Reginald and Irene Lynn, 1938-1949." She would have been 25 now. But Joanne's corsage is a cluster of frequently changed flowers. Virtually every Sunday her mother pays a pilgrimage to keep neat the burial plot in Grovelands Lake View Cemetery. Who killed pretty little Joanne Lynn, then 11? Somebody must know.

"The hurt is long gone now," says Mrs. Lynn today. "But we never have given up hope that the man who did it will be found somehow. Jgr 1 WtT SCSN I MAP OF MYSTERY This picture, taken by DiC Chief Photographer Fred Powers at time of Joanne Lynn slaying in September, 1949, shows principal points in the area where she disappeared. ing sheriff's deputies, State Police, National Guardsmen, volunteers and bloodhounds, it lasted until the following Saturday when Joanne's body was discovered crumpled in a butternut grove on the Concan-non Farm near Lima, seven miles north of the Lynn home.

She had been shot by a 9 mm. German Luger, and molested. The slaying weapon never was found, nor were the child's red sweater and underclothing. SINCE THAT long-ago day, hundreds upon hundreds of "suspects" and other persons have been quizzed; the hunt for the killer reached from Massachusetts to California. Rewards totaling more than $3,000 were pledged.

Nothing happened. But even today, whenever a German Luger is confiscated or an anonymous letter is received, such leads are checked out. Only two weeks ago when the Monroe County Sheriff's Office acted on a tip about a .45 caliber pistol in connection with the Shari Smoyer-John King homicides the Joanne Lynn case cropped up immediately. For the ".45" picked up turned out to be a Luger, and it was test-fired in an attempt to link "Somebody knows. If the guilty man still is alive, there must be the one real clue somewhere, the kind of secret information that could prevent another such crime.

"After all these years, my feeling is that it was a man who lived in this area. My husband, on the other hand, believes it was a stranger, passing through. In any event, it seems impossible that Joanne could just vanish from a busy highway without detection of some sort." LIVINGSTON COUNTY'S most famed murder mystery had its beginnings one Monday morning in September, 1949, when Joanne left her Hemlock home for school about three-quarters of a mile away along Route 15A. She last was seen alive five minutes later while passing the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Smith. "Good morning, Mrs. Smith!" the girl called out. "It's a nice morning, isn't it?" "Yes, It Is," said Mrs. Smith, telling her 7-year-old son, Eddie, to hurry and catch up with Joanne.

But when Eddie reached the highway, Joanne had disappeared. Just like that. That afternoon the massive search began. Involv WMWy-jx -n, -'t V. i i 4 to ft pllllllIP: it with cartridges found at the Lynn murder scene.

"The Lynn case still is open," says i i ton County Sheriff James Emery in Geneseo. "We continue to work on it from time to time, such as when additional information comes to somebody's mind and is sent to our office." The Livingston sheriff who, with State Police orig-i a 1 1 spearheaded the long, frustrating investigation was H. Donald McColl. He is dead now, as are some other key figures. BUT FOLKS up Hemlock-Lima-Avon-Geneseo way still mention the baffling case even to the Lynn family, who now live in a large, rambling old farmhouse in Livonia.

"We just say something to the effect that the authorities keep working on it when something turns up," Mrs. Lynn says. "What completely puzzles me, even today, is how the guilty giiniiiiiiiii liiiniiiiiiiifiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiitfiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiriiiiiiiiiitiitiiitfiiiitiiiiriifrtiiiifiiiiifi minimi I How to Submit Your Clues I man could have got Joanne into a car so fast without anyone noticing it then, or after he drove off. "Joanne would not have got into a car of her own accord. She had been warned too often.

Why, she wouldn't even get into her own school principal's car." Reginald Lynn, who within a year moved his family from the Hemlock house of bitter memories, is a telephone company employe who buys and sells cattle on the side. There are two other Lynn daughters Donna, 18, and Margaret, 14. The latter, a baby when Joanne's slaying horrified the countryside, never was to know much about the crime; for that matter, Donna was only four at the time. There is one son, Reg now 26. DID JOANNE know the date-with-death driver? Mrs.

Lynn thinks it possible, but refuses to believe the child got into the car voluntarily. Did Joanne scream out? Perhaps she tried, but couldn't. Was she slain in the car? Maybe not. She could have managed to get out and run, only to be caught in the butternut grove. Although only 11, did she try to fight off her.

attacker? Apparently, for scrapings were taken from beneath her fingernails. Had the killer picked a secluded scene-for-a-crime in advance? Probably negative. He was in a hurry, and he made no attempt to conceal the body. What are the only basic facts that authorities could resolve despite the all-out investigation? The slayer was a man; Joanne was molested. He had a vehicle; a car or a truck.

And he had a gun for sure. Was the girl killed that same Monday, or in some cottage overnight, or next day? The death certificate carries time of death as two hours after Joanne called out her cheery "Good morning!" to Mrs. Howard Smith in busy Route 15A. AS JOANNE'S mother says Knows, P.O. Box 12, Rochester, N.Y., 14601.

All letters must be postmarked within 30 days following publication of the case resume. Should more than one person supply information leading to conviction, the reward will be divided in proportion to the importance attached to each clue. In such case, this newspaper will be the sole judge of reward payments, but law officers will be consulted to ascertain the helpfulness of clues. 8. To collect the reward, you or a representative need only present' the corner of your letter to this newspaper's general manager, Al Neuharth, after the successful code number has been published in the 9.

Only unsolved cases designated are included in the $5,000 Somebody Knows reward campaign. 10. Remember: YOUR information Is in the public interest. You are guaranteed absolute confidence. Riv hhiP.

pi ipr 34300 Here's how to submit information in The Democrat and Chronicle's $5,000 reward offer to help solve five area murder cases, including the Smoyer-King slayings in Pittsford seven weeks ago. The rules are simple. Complete secrecy is guaranteed. You don't even sign your name. Follow the rules exactly; no one can determine your identity.

All legitimate information will be turned over to the proper law enforcement authorities. This reward offer is made in the interests of public service, in the hope it will lead to a killer or killers before they strike again. The rules: 1. The Democrat and Chronicle will pay up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for five unsolved slayings. This means a $1,000 reward in each of the cases.

2. Five resumes of the unsolved cases are being published, continuing today with an account of the Joanne Lynn slaying 14 years ago. 3. In submitting clues, write down everything you know about the crime. Be sure to give names, dates and times.

The more information you can give, the better are the chances of leading investigators to arrest and conviction. Please, no telephone calls. 4. Do NOT sign your name. Instead, pick any two letters of the alphabet and any four figures as your personal code.

(Example: MH 5831). 5. Write your chosen code at the bottom of the last sheet of your letter. Then tear off a corner of the same sheet on a jagged line (see illustration). Copy your exact code number on the torn-off portion.

Keep it in a safe place. Code letters, figures and jagged edges must match those on your letter if you later claim a reward. 6. Mail your letter to Somebody Paying the hospital bill is just a start. Chances are he'll outgrow your budget a number of times before he's grown up.

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Drop in at one of the 22 offices of the Genesee Valley Union Trust Company nearest you. Or phone. Your loan can be arranged in a matter of minutes. today, "The hurt is gone," I I but the killer could strike again somewhere, if he hasn't already. Joanne's red-flowered grave high up on that Groveland hill from where September sunlight can be seen dancing on the waters of Conesus can't yield the secret.

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