Marilee Ruth Burt

A 15-year-old girl is killed on her walk home from a basketball game in 1970
On the evening of February 26, 1970, Marilee Ruth Burt, a 15-year-old white female, was walking home after a basketball game at Goddard Middle School in Littleton, Colorado. Still dressed in her cheerleading uniform, she embarked on a journey she had made many times before, a walk that should have only taken a short while to get to her home in Columbine Valley. Witnesses saw her walking along a route that included Berry Drive, Bowles Avenue, and Middlefield Road. Tragically, she would never make ...