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Stories in this collection: 23
Benjamin Lewis taking his seat as 24th Ward alderman, Chicago City Council, April 17, 1958.On the morning of February 28, 1963, Chicago Alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was found shot to death in his ward office, two days after winning another term on the City Council. The 2021 ProPublica investigation reported that no one had been brought to justice and police still considered the case open. Lewis is..
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Paula PrincePaula Prince was a 35-year-old United Airlines flight attendant who bought a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol at a Chicago Walgreens on September 29, 1982. She was found dead in her Old Town apartment two days later, the seventh and final identified victim of the Chicago-area cyanide poisonings. Her death set off the citywide removal of Tylenol from store shelves. A store security ca..
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Yasmin Rayon Acree - Disappeared in 2008.Yasmin Rayon Acree was 15 when she was last seen at her family's home in Chicago on January 15, 2008. Official missing-person listings still classify her as missing. No public record establishes what happened to her. It does not say whether she left on her own, was taken, or was harmed. No one has been publicly reported as charged in connection with her d..
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Emoni & Elijah. Image credit: FacebookIn the early hours of November 3, 2016, a shooting inside a family home on Chicago's South Side killed two siblings, 20-year-old Emoni House and her 16-year-old brother, Elijah House. Emoni was four months pregnant. Their mother and a family friend were also shot and survived. Police charged Emoni's boyfriend, a 19-year-old man, with the killings. What follo..
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Nancie Carolyn Walker (1947 - 2003)Nancie Carolyn Walker was a 55-year-old Chicago businesswoman, dancer and eldest of six sisters when she vanished in January 2003. Seven weeks later, her dismembered remains were found in trash bags along a Chicago expressway. The available reporting identifies no suspect, arrest or prosecution, and describes her killing as unresolved. This article sets out wha..
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Jesse Warren Ross, who went missing in Chicago, 2006.Jesse Warren Ross was 19 years old when he walked out of a late-night meeting room in downtown Chicago in the early hours of November 21, 2006. He was a college sophomore attending a Model United Nations conference. He has not been seen since, and no one has publicly established what happened to him. Police have reportedly favored one theory, ..
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Kevin Clewer (1972 - 2004)Kevin Clewer was 31 when he was found stabbed to death in his Chicago apartment in March 2004. More than two decades later, no one has been convicted, and the reviewed sources report no current charges or resolution.The case has moved through an early arrest warrant that ended in a release, a sketch of a man known as "Fernando," a podcast, a police cold-case video, and ..
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Katherine Moroney with her daughter, Mary Agnes, in 1928.Mary Agnes Moroney was born in Chicago on May 10, 1928, and taken from her family’s home on May 15, 1930, when she was two years old. For nearly 93 years her whereabouts were unknown. In February 2023, familial DNA comparisons strongly linked Mary Agnes’s relatives to the family of Jeanette Burchard, who died in Florida in 2003 at age 75. ..
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Elsie Paroubek (1906 – 1911)In April 1911, a small girl left her family's home on Chicago's West Side to visit an aunt around the corner and was never seen alive again. Her body was found a month later in a drainage canal near Lockport. The search for Elsie Paroubek drew in police, politicians, immigrant societies and thousands of schoolchildren, and the Chicago newspapers followed it daily. No ..
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Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano (5 January 1950 – 21 May 1991)On May 21, 1991, Ioan Petru Culianu, a 41-year-old Romanian-born historian of religions, was shot dead in a restroom at the University of Chicago Divinity School. More than three decades later, no one has been identified as the killer and no motive has been established. The case has drawn theories involving Romanian security services, ..
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