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Murder of Yingying Zhang. On June 9, 2017, Yingying Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen, a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. Christensen, who investigators claimed aspired to be a serial killer, lured Zhang into his car ...
Organized crime – notable homicides involving the Italian-American organized crime syndicate or crime family based in Chicago. These include the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the 1977 murder of Sam Giancana. Lynchings and race riots – homicides associated with lynching and race riots. These include the 1844 Killing of Joseph Smith ...
Suicide of Joe Gliniewicz. On September 1, 2015, American police lieutenant Charles Joseph " Joe " Gliniewicz was found dead in a wooded area in Fox Lake, Illinois. The incident gained national coverage as it was initially believed that Gliniewicz was murdered by three unknown assailants.
Authorities think they have recovered the body of the Illinois teenager who went missing last week on her way to a party and whose SUV was found Monday submerged in a pond.. Brissa Romero, 17, has ...
Updated June 19, 2024 at 9:28 PM. A human arm found on an Illinois beach was identified as that of Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old Milwaukee woman who was dismembered after she went on a date with ...
Atcel Olmedo (previously known as the DuPage Johnny Doe) was an American toddler who was allegedly murdered by his abusive stepfather and his mother in 2005 and disposed of in Naperville, Illinois. His body was not positively identified until 2011. [ 2] The case received national attention and was broadcast on several different television shows.
Maria Elizabeth Ridulph (March 12, 1950 – c. December 1957) was a seven-year-old girl who disappeared from Sycamore, Illinois, on December 3, 1957. Her remains were found almost five months later in a wooded area near Woodbine, Illinois, approximately 90 miles (140 km) from her home. [1][2] Maria was last seen by her friend on her ...
The body of a Navy sailor who disappeared last month after he left a bar in Waukegan, Illinois, was found Wednesday in Lake Michigan near the city’s harbor, authorities said.