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About Murder of Carolyn Wasilewski
- Carolyn Loretta Wasilewski (June 12, 1940 – November 8, 1954) was the 14-year-old victim of an unsolved murder that made national headlines during an intensive search for suspects near her home in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Her remains were discovered in a rail yard by an engineer on a Pennsy express train bound to Baltimore from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the morning of November 9, 1954.Not far from her family's home, police found bloodstains and personal items belonging to Wasilewski.
- "Long before she was identified police had concluded that the murder had occurred elsewhere and she had been thrown from the bridge or dragged down a bank to the tracks," reported The Baltimore Sun in 1954.
- Written on her right thigh in lipstick or Mercurochrome was the name Paul.
- Seven days earlier on November 1, she had testified in a carnal knowledge case involving one of her girl friends.A column published in the Baltimore Sun in March, 2000 referred to the murder, without mentioning Wasilewski by name.
- It provoked a column, also in the Sun, by Frederick N.
- Rasmussen in which he describes the discovery of the body and investigation in some detail, along with the crowds that gathered for the funeral, and quotes a Baltimore homicide detective who said that interest in the half-century-old murder was still surfacing, "We still get calls generally around the anniversary of the murder."Baltimore Sun columnist Jacques Kelly speculated that the case became a "Baltimore legend," precisely because it was unsolved.
- The murder and its period of notoriety in Baltimore "loosely" inspired John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby.
- Waters recalls the media's framing of the case in the context of the negative aspects of Baltimore's "drape" youth subculture.
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