IL: Another cold case—1957 murder

[seamusTX]

In Sycamore, Illinois, in 1957 a 7-year-old girl disappeared. Her remains turned up months later in western Illinois.

Sycamore is still a small rural town about 50 miles west of Chicago. At that time it would have been in the middle of nowhere.

A local man, then about 18 years old, was suspected; but he had an alibi.

This week a warrant was issued for the suspect, now 71 years old and living in Seattle.

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- Jim

[jimandyen]

It's always good to hear when someone like that gets caught. I wonder what took the ex-girlfriend 54 years
to come forward with that information???

[seamusTX]

I don't know.

Sometimes people reach a certain age or some other milestone in their lives and decide to settle old issues that have been bothering them.

There is a phenomenon of deathbed confessions—which actually are rare and overdramatized—and similar late-in-life revelations. So-called Deep Throat from the Watergate era would be an example.

- Jim