Mary Jane Burke

On April 18, 1977, the body of 19-year-old Mary Jane Burke, a female from St. Petersburg, Florida, was discovered in an open field near the Dale Mabry Strip. An investigation revealed that the young woman had been strangled to death. Known to be a frequent hitchhiker who often visited local bars, Burke's death was a grim addition to a series of violent crimes against women in the Tampa Bay area during that period. A year prior, in 1976, she had reported being the victim of a rape by a man in a p ...

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