Baby murdered in eastern Idaho remembered with new headstone 60 years after her death
July 31, 2025
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IDAHO FALLS – A small group of people gathered in the northeast corner of Rose Hill Cemetery in Idaho Falls on Wednesday afternoon to pay their respects to a baby 60 years after her death.
Charlene Goetz spearheaded the effort to raise funds for a new headstone for her sister, Ellen May Jones, who was murdered in 1965.
“Today marks the 60th anniversary of (her death),” Goetz said during a graveside service and dedication of the new headstone. “It’s a beautiful day of closure, a day that Ellen deserved when she was laid to rest. She should’ve been given a beautiful ceremony, and she wasn’t.”
Ellen was just 5 months old when her mother, Pansy Jones, and her boyfriend, Leo Daniels, buried her about 100 feet off the road near Palisades Reservoir after she had been beaten to death.
Authorities reportedly found her body just before noon on August 7, 1965. Her body was “covered with wood debris and limbs,” and her foot was hanging out.
EastIdahoNews.com highlighted what happened in a story last summer. The couple had gotten a job working at an apple orchard in Idaho Falls. On Aug. 4, they crossed the border into Wyoming, where law enforcement determined the baby had been killed.
WATCH HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HEADSTONE INSTALLATION AND DEDICATION IN THE VIDEO ABOVE.
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