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Chicago police say DNA ties a former detective to decades-old unsolved killing of 8-year-old girl on her way to Mass
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Chicago police say DNA evidence ties one of their former homicide detectives to the decades-old murder of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted as she was walking to her Catholic church more than 65 years ago.
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Chicago police find killer in 65-year-old cold case murder of little girl — one of their own
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Chicago police say DNA ties a former detective to decades-old unsolved killing of 8-year-old girl on her way to Mass
Chicago police say DNA genealogy, fingerprint and ballistics evidence identified former homicide detective Thomas Francis McInerney as responsible for the 1960 killing of 8-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz, whose body was found in a suburban ravine after she disappeared on a walk to church.
“The fact that he was a police officer is deeply troubling to all of us that have made a career out of this most noble profession,” CPD’s Chief of Detectives Kevin Bruno said.
Police used recently discovered DNA to pin murder of eight-year-old girl on Thomas McInerney, who died in 2006 Chicago police on Monday said they recently used newly discovered DNA evidence to tie the 1960 murder of an eight-year-old girl to one of its own former homicide detectives.
The Chicago Police Department has solved a 65-year-old cold case regarding the death of Gloria Kowalewicz, an eight-year-old who was killed was while walking from her house to church on November 12, 1960.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say DNA evidence ties one of their former homicide detectives to the decades-old murder of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted as she was walking to church more than 65 years ago.
Chicago police say DNA evidence ties one of their former homicide detectives to the decades-old murder of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted as she was walking to church more than 65 years ago.
Chicago police say DNA evidence ties one of their former homicide detectives to the decades-old murder of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted as she was walking to her Catholic church more than 65 years ago.
DNA evidence ties former detective Thomas F. McInerney Jr., to the murder of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted as she was walking to church more than 65 years ago.
