Miriam Binderim Fomer Henry County Resident Found Murdered

BINDERIM, MATHEWS, CORNICK, JONES, ROBERTSON

Posted By: deb (email)
Date: 1/13/2008 at 10:29:07

Article from unknown newspaper - Feb. 1961

Former Resident of Henry County Found Murdered

Relatives here have received word recently of the murder of a former Henry County resident, Mrs. Miriam Binderim, 62, at Towson, Maryland. Her body was found on Friday, Feb. 3.
Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Emery Mathews of east of Mt. Pleasant. She left here with her family while she was a small girl.
She was a cousin of Parke Cornick, Perry Mathews, Mrs. Denis Jones,Leland Robertson, and others in this vicinity. A sister resides in Oklahoma City, Okla., and a son in Texas.
A Towson newspaper, the Jeffersonian, gives the following account of the murder:
Police at week's end were running down clues in the parking lot strangulation of a 62 year old woman bank employee.
Still sought for questioning is a Negro, described as 30 years old, six feet tall, weighing 160 pounds and having wavy hair.
Also sought by police are the victim's handbag and car keys. Other things normally carried in a handbag were found on Hurtzler's parking lot, in the vicinity of Dulaney Vally and Joppa Roads in Towson.
The body of the middle-aged customer relations woman, Mrs. Miriam Binderim, was found on the fron floorboards of her car, which was parked behind the Employment Security Office on East Pennsylvania Avenue in Towson.
Her body was discovered about 12:30 p.m. last Friday, some 12 hours after her murder, by a young man on his way to pick up an unemployment check. It was snowing, and when he walked over to Mrs. Binderim's car to close a window he saw her sprawled under the dashboard.
Mrs. Binderim told friends at a birtday party given for her at a dance studio on Delaware Avenue the night of the murder that her car was on Hutzler's lot. Police believe that the 62 year old widow was slain there, and that the murder then drove the victim, in her own car, to where it was eventually found containing her body.
A 14-man detective squad, headed by capt. Elmer F. Adamas, chief of the police bureau's investigative division, has already interviewed 14 friends and associates of the murdered woman and may quiz more over the weekend.