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Chicago investigation concludes 1960 killing of a girl was committed by a former police detective

Summary

Chicago police and the FBI, using DNA evidence and genetic genealogy, say former police detective Thomas Francis McInerney, who lived in the same neighbourhood, was responsible for the 1960 killing of eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz, but he died in 2006 and will never face trial.

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ISTRAGA ubojstva osmogodišnje djevojčice, neriješena punih 65 godina, dobila je epilog. DNK dokazi otkrili su da je za njezinu smrt odgovoran bivši policijski detektiv za

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Locations

  • West Englewood · City / settlement

    Place named; boundary not confirmed.

  • Chicago · City / settlement

    Place named; boundary not confirmed.

Places mentioned in the report

Las Vegas and Reno are marked because McInerney worked there as an investigator after leaving the Chicago police, while the United States and West Englewood are the wider and narrower markers for where the crime took place.

  • where it happenedWest Englewood - neighbourhood the girl left from on her way to church
  • where it happenedChicago - city where the girl was killed in 1960

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Severity
Severity30

Total — moderate signal (20–39)

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