.BODY OF GIRL IDENTIFIED
Exerpt from the Winston-Salem Journal Tuesday September 2, 1980
By David Waters Staff Reporter
PILOT MOUNTAIN- The body found near here Friday afternoon has been identified as a Forsyth County girl who had been missing since Tuesday afternoon. Ronda Mechelle Blaylock, 14, was last seen Tuesday near her Rural Hall home in a pick up truck with an unidentified young man. Her body was found three days later about 50 feet from a private road near the Surry and Stokes County line.
Dental Records
Erik K Mitchell, assistant chief state medical examiner, said yesterday that Miss Blaylock's body was identified primarily by dental records. He said that she had died from stab wounds in her chest and stomach.
Miss Blaylock was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Blaylock of 8911 Broad Street in Rural Hall.
Miss Blaylock had entered Atkins High School as a ninth grader last Monday and had gone to school the day she was seen in the pickup truck.
A guidance counselor from her school described Miss Blaylock as a smart and very shy person.
ABOVE AVERAGE
"She was quite an above average student", said Barbara G. Lancaster of Mineral Springs Junior High School yesterday. "She had friends in the school, but she was not the kind who was real outgoing."
Sheriff William R. "Bill" Hall said yesterday that Tom Secrest of Pilot Mountain found Miss Blaylock's body as he was driving down a private dirt road off Secrest Road. Her body was lying on the ground beside a tobacco barn in an area of small trees.
Hall said that Miss Blaylock's body was partially disrobed. But authorities have not determined whether she was the victim of a sexual assault or whether her clothes were damaged when she was taken into the woods. The Forsyth County Sheriff's Department and the State Bureau Of Investigation is working with the Surry County Sheriff's Department on the case. According to the Surry County Sheriff's Department, no warrants had been issued or arrests made by late last night.