ALEXANDER, N.D. — At first glance, farmer Clark Jenner thought he saw a cardboard box in the middle of his plowed field, which was strange. The nearest town, Alexander — population around 240 — was two-and-a-half-miles away. But on March 28, 1963, winter was receding, and it was time to prepare for spring planting.

As he drew closer, however, he realized the object was not a box; it was a body, tossed into weeds. Empty beer cans and Coke bottles, as well as a broken whiskey bottle, littered the area.

Straw-colored hair, about five feet tall, the body was wearing a colorful sports shirt beneath a black cloth jacket. Shorts and blue jeans were down at his ankles.

The nearly-nude body was a young male. His arms were bound together with a cord that was also wrapped around his neck four time

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