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The Berkshire Sampler, Sunday, Nov. 7, 1976 3 This notice was widely posted throughout the county. ) Ive seen a lot of kids and this kid was special. She was really going to give something to the world . . . By Eileen Kuperschmid WILLIAM STOWN October 7. A busy day for Cynthia Rocky Krizack the kind of day she was accustomed to the kind of day she relished. An honor student and a senior at Mt. Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, Rocky went directly to the auditorium after her last class for the rehearsal of Blythe Spirit. She was to play the maids role, primarily because she was the only member of the cast who could speak Cockney. The rehearsal went well and afterwards Rocky drove the plays director home, returned something at the Grand Union, and stopped at Carrolls for a hamburger. She arrived home, tired too tired she told her mother, to go to the dance class at Williams College which she usually attended on Thursdays. Instead, Rocky turned on the television and watched the evening news. At 6:25 she called to her mother and warned her that it was getting late. Mrs. Krizack was to do the costuming for a hospital auxiliary show titled Suture Satire. Dont .leave a mess in the kitchen, cautioned Mrs. Krizack as she left the house. Rocky called a girlfriend to firm up plans for a library date they had that evening. Becky said she was sorry but she had a paper due and would have to cancel. So, Rocky took a shower, and changed into blue jeans, and a black tur tleneck sweater. Im going to the library Ill be home by 10:30, she called to her father at 7:45 and carrying a paperback Erik Erikson book, Young Man Luther, Rocky Krizack left the house. But Rocky never did make it home not at 10:30 not at all. Somewhere between her house and the library, a short block and a half away, Rocky Krizack disappeared. Williamstown is charming, a cultural and academic mecca, and Williams College is its very soul, if towns do indeed have such things. Sitting far back on great sweeps of lawn, surrounded by ancient trees, its statelywhite buildings dominate the community both architecturally and emotionally. It is a town with dignity, and the people who live here are proud of it. There are no slums in Williamstown, no wrong side of the tracks, no tacky side streets cluttered with squalling children and crumbling tenements. Noted for its theatres, fine restaurants and highly respected Clark Art Institute, Williamstown hosts thousands of eager tourists every summer. Driving down its broad, tree-lined streets, the stranger is impressed by its picture postcard, Ivy League ambiance. A nice town a town any parent would like to raise a family in the last place in the world youd expect a young girl to disappear. David Krizack, a dentist, and his wife, Irma, came to Williamstown 35 years ago. They moved into a large gray house on Southworth Street, a house with a deep front porch and a fireplace and plenty of breathing space for the family of five children that they would eventually have. On Oct. 6, 1959, Mrs. Krizack gave birth to her fifth and last child, Cynthia. It had been eight years since she had had a baby and her four older children were all in school. In fact, while Mrs. Krizack was changing Cynthias diapers, her oldest daughter was altering college. Thats why in many ways, Rock was like an only child, explains Mrs. Krizack in the living room of her home. It is a nice room with its crackling fire and its book-lined walls, its deep comfortable chairs, ivy plants and smiling family portraits. Here in this room there is the same sense of security and continuity that is felt in Williamstown itself and one can imagine easily enough the incredible shock that Rockys disappearance must have brought. Rocky was always very close to her brothers and sisters, Mrs. Krizack said. They all babysat when they were teenagers and theyd come home so proud, comparing their baby, Rocky, to the children they watched. Being the youngest, Rockys childhood was filled with the hand-me-downs of her older brothers and sisters. The old rick ety high chair, which had seen so many spilled cereal bowls and juice glasses, was responsible for the nickname Rocky. Wed all walk past her, and push the chair, and say, Rock, recalls Mrs. Krizack. The name just stuck. On Sunday, Oct. 31, David Baumann, a 20-year-old trapper, was walking through the woods, scouting a winter mink trap line. At the base of a 35-foot embankment in Windsor, near Main Dalton Road he discovered the body of Rocky Krizack lying face down beside a creek, shoeless, and clad in blue jeans, a black turtleneck sweater and a red and white flannel overshirt. The pathologist who performed the autopsy, Dr. George Katsis, found that Rocky Krizack had died of traumatic asphyxiation (strangulation). The bruises found on her head were thought to have been made with a blunt instrument, possibly a fist. There was no evidence of sexual attack and according to Milo F. Brown, head of the state police Crime Prevention and Control Unit of Berkshire County, Rocky had been dead since on or about Oct. 7. Guy Kerstetter of Main Dalton Road, who lives in a house which is close to the spot where the body was, found, told police that he had seen two strange ve- Continued on next page

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Berkshire Sampler
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
07 Nov 1976, Sun • Page 3

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1976
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1976
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