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Just four years ago, the nearby Lisle Police Department solved the case of another murder—the 1976 slaying of Pamela Maurer, a 16-year-old girl who left her home to go get a soft drink. The next ...
Nearly 50 years after the cold case murder of a 19-year-old who went missing from her Illinois village, authorities have identified her killer through new DNA evidence. A 19-year-old disappeared ...
The case remains unsolved after decades of fumbles by local and Illinois state police, who took decades to develop a suspect in Maria's killing and then “put a thumb on the scale” in order to ...
Illinois, Colorado: 1966–1982: 3+ Serial killer whose first murder in 1966 was of his sister-in-law in Joliet, Illinois [39] [40] John Wayne Gacy: Norwood Park: 1972–1978: 33-45: Serial killer and rapist, also known as the "Killer Clown", who killed at least 33 young men and boys [41] [42] Robert Ben Rhoades: Texas, Illinois: 1975–1990: 3 ...
Gonzales, who was later caught and sentenced to life in prison for another case of rape and kidnapping, confessed to the murder and led the police to a field where he disposed of Townsend's body in October 2002. Gonzales was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, and later executed on June 26, 2024. [19] Murdered 1 year and 10 months
Engle was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Hamilton Allen, a livery stable owner, and Evelyn (Reinheiner) Engle. He grew up in the Wellington Heights section of Cedar Rapids. He graduated from Washington High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), and later attended Coe College (class of 1931), The University of Iowa, Columbia University, and Merton College, Oxford (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar ...
Terry Jo Duperrault, the 11-year-old sole survivor of a mass murder case on the ship Blue belle on November 12, 1961. Duperrault, who drifted on the ocean for three days, was rescued and testified against the ship's captain, who was the killer behind the murder of her parents and siblings on the ship; the captain committed suicide after ...
After 45 years, authorities in California were finally able to tell the Gonzalez family who they believe killed their loved one. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office used DNA and forensic ...