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Case at a Glance⌖LocationChicago, Illinois◷Two shootingsJuly 5 and July 17, 1997⚖Salas murder caseSoto was acquitted in June 1999§Arroyo shooting caseConviction vacated and case dismissed in 2024◆Appellate ruling · September 22, 2026The court affirmed denial of a certificate of innocence. It did not decide whether Soto committed the Arroyo shooting.Oscar Soto (second from left) with members of h..
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Kent Projansky (Courtesy of Todd Projansky)Case at a Glance📅 DateDecember 18, 2004📍 LocationGold Coast, Chicago, Illinois👤 VictimKent Projansky, 40⚖️ Case statusFirst-degree murder charge reported in November 2025; no verdict reported in the sources cited here.Kent Projansky was 40 when he was shot and killed in his Chicago apartment on December 18, 2004. For more than a decade, the evidence ..
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On December 28, 1956, two sisters left their Chicago home to watch an Elvis Presley movie. They were expected back that evening. They never made it home.Barbara and Patricia Grimes were missing for nearly a month before their bodies were found in a wooded area near Willow Springs, southwest of Chicago.The discovery ended the search for the sisters but left investigators with a much harder questi..
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For decades, investigators had physical evidence but no name. Modern DNA analysis, genetic genealogy and a fingerprint comparison eventually led Chicago police to a former officer who had died years before the case was publicly resolved. On the morning of November 12, 1960, eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz left her family's home in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood to walk a few blocks to Ma..
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