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Cold Cases · 2026. 10. 25. 21:14

The Carol Novak Case — 1981

Illustrative depiction of a Chicago residential street. This is not an actual photograph of Carol Novak's home or the crime scene. Carol Novak, 35, was killed in her North Side Chicago home in October 1981. The case went cold, and it was not solved until DNA from evidence the police had kept for three decades pointed to a man already in prison. That man, Eugene Booker, was convicted of first-deg..

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