Hollywood — A Great Dane out for a walk has led his master to the body of the 17-year-old daughter of a distinguished screenwriter.
Marina Habe had been the object of a wide search since she apparently was abducted Monday from in front of her mother’s home.
Sheriff’s detectives said the body of the slain girl was found yesterday in the brush in a semi-rural area seven miles from where she disappeared in West Los Angeles.
An autopsy was conducted today, but detectives refused to discuss its findings. Detectives declined to say if the girl, who was found fully clothed, had been the victim of a sexual attack. Authoritative reports said she died of multiple stab wounds.
The girl was the daughter of screenwriter Hans Habe. Marina’s mother, actress Eloise Hardt, was placed under medical care after being told by friends of her daughter’s death. Miss hardt divorced Habe 10 years ago. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
The dog that found the body of the petite, dark-haired girl was walking with his master, Frank G. Turner of Sherman Oaks, Calif. Mr. Turner told detectives the dog ran to the edge of a rural road and stared into brush on a slope. Turner said he looked into the brush and saw Marina’s face.
Marina left her mother’s home Monday afternoon for a date with John Hornburg, 22, whose family has been friends with Marina and her mother for a dozen years.
Hornburg and Marina went to a musical show with two other couples and returned to the home of Hornburg’s parents, from where Marina left for her own home alone about 3:15 a.m.
Fifteen minutes later her mother was awakened by the sound of a car with a loud muffler. Miss Hardt told detectives she saw her daughter’s car parked in the driveway with a black sedan beside it.
A man standing beside Marina’s red sports car, she told detectives, shouted “let’s go!” The black sedan backed out into the street, she said, and he ran to it and climbed inside.
Miss Habe, a June graduate of a Los Angeles high school and a freshman at the University of Hawaii, was home for Christmas vacation.