The IvyWild Inn in southwest Colorado Springs was the last place Jo Anne Harris was seen alive other then by her killer.
Harris, who was 39, lived at 427 N. 30th St. She was estranged from her fourth husband, a city meter reader named Orla J. Harris.
They had gotten married in August of 1968 and were separated only a month later. Jo Anne had three children, ages 5 to 16, from previous marriages.
Jo Anne Harris, 39
She worked at United Supers, 505 Castle Road, wrapping meat.
On the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 13, 1969 around 3 p.m., a neighbor saw Jo Anne leave her house on foot.
She was wearing pink slacks, a pink sweatshirt, gold slippers and a blue windbreaker.
Jo Anne was a small woman, only 4-feet-11. She weighed 120 pounds and had green eyes and had shoulder-length auburn hair.
Witnesses saw her that night at IvyWild, which is about 5 miles northwest of her home.
Later that same evening, Jo Anne’s parents, who lived in Lakewood, called Colorado Springs police and reported her missing.
Weeks passed with no sign of Jo Anne.
Then on Sunday, Nov. 16, security officer Sgt. Alfred Guest was patrolling the perimeter of the underground North American Air Combat Operations Center (NORAD) and spotted a decaying body under a pine tree.
The body, lying on a rock pile 24 feet from a Cheyenne Mountain road leading towards NORAD, was only wearing a sweatshirt and jacket.
The body was dumped 2.3 miles west of Colorado 115 and about seven miles south of Colorado Springs.
