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Helene Pruszynski - 1976 Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School

Updated Jun 26, 2025
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Helene Pruszynski - 1976 Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School
The 1976 Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School yearbook photo of Helene Pruszynski. There is a scholarship in her honor now at the high school after her murder. Details in her bio.
Date & Place: at Hamilton Regional High School 775 Bay Rd, in Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts 01982, United States
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Helene Pruszynski
Helene was born to parents Chester C. (1918-2012) and Henrietta M (Kelly) Pruszynski (1922-2012) and had a brother Chester Anthony (1946-2009) and sister Janet Pruszynski. She was murdered and her case went unsolved for nearly four decades, but a beer mug and a genealogy website helped detectives make an arrest. In 1980 she was a senior at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts and had just moved to Colorado staying with relatives in Englewood and working as an intern at KHOW radio in Denver. She had dreams of becoming a journalist. A few weeks later she was raped and murdered and she was found in a frozen field on a farm ranch in Douglas County, Colorado. In December of 2019, nearly 40 years after her death, a then-listed suspect, a 22 year old (at the time) truck driver from Florida, was finally arrested after police made a match between the DNA found on a mug he was drinking from with the same DNA found at the scene of the crime. Although the charge of sexual assault has passed the state's statute of limitations, several other charges have been brought upon him. Newspaper articles with details are included below. Her address was 12 Port Ln in South Hamilton Massachusetts.
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