Hollywood (Special) — Marina Elizabeth Habe, 17, co-ed daughter of author Hans Habe and actress Eloise Hardt, was found slain this afternoon in a ravine off Mulholland Drive a few miles west of her home.

Her body was found a little more than two days after she was abducted from her West Hollywood home as her mother watched from the front window.

She had been stabbed a number of times. No murder weapon was found, police said. Detectives indicated they had clues to the identity of her killers.

Find Girl’s Purse

Police found the body after a a sightseeing couple found the slain girl’s purse on the road. A search of the area, a desolate section at least a half-mile from the nearest home, was made by police on foot. Miss Habe’s body was found two hours later.

She was lying on her back, fully clothed, under heavy brush, police said. An autopsy was performed, and police sought to learn whether she had been sexually assaulted.

She was last seen alive when she left a friend’s home at 3:15 a.m. Monday. Her mother said she was awakened at 3:35 a.m. by the sound of a loud auto exhaust, and went to the front window. Her daughter’s auto was in the driveway. Parked alongside was a black sedan, and between the autos stood a man.

Stranger Shouts “Go!”

The girl’s mother said the black car backed out of the driveway and the stranger shouted “Go!” to the driver before getting into the car, which sped west.

Miss Hardt said she did not see her daughter at this time.

The girl’s father, author of “Christopher and His Father,” “The Mission,” and “A Thousand shall Fall,” reportedly was on his way here from his home in Zurich, Switzerland.

The girl’s mother divorced from Habe and remarried has appeared in several movies and television shows. Her most recent film was “Games”, with Simone Signoret.

FBI is Informed

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was informed immediately after the abduction, but did not actively participate in the search for the co-ed.

Miss Habe, 113 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes, was on vacation from the University of Hawaii. She drove her car Sunday afternoon to the Sunset boulevard home of John Hornburg, 22.

Hornburg told police they met two other couples in a cafe. She left Hornburg’s home at 3:15 a.m. in her own car to return home.

A second purse containing a small amount of money was found in her small foreign sports car, left in the driveway of her home.

Miss Habe was graduated from University High School in West Los Angeles in May.

Friends Since Childhood

According to her family, she and Hornburg were not romantically involved, but had been friends since childhood. It was said she had been dating another.

Habe, 57, is an Austrian who laid aside a career as a journalist to fight the Nazis in World War II, first with the 21st infantry of foreign volunteer in the French army and, after the fall of France, with the American army.

He won numerous combat decorations and wrote a book about his war experiences, “A Thousand Shall Fall.”

He formerly edited the Vienna newspaper “Der Morgen” and covered the League of Nations before World War II.