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Post by LadyBlue on May 15, 2004 20:40:37 GMT -5
BATAVIA, Ill. (AP) -- Police found the body of a Wisconsin woman who had been missing since her daughter's boyfriend allegedly fractured the younger woman's skull in a fight, and a suspect was arrested, authorities said Thursday.
Linda Duchaine, 49, was found dead late Wednesday in an abandoned farmhouse near Interstate 88 in southwestern Kane County, the Batavia Police Department said. An autopsy is pending to determine the cause of her death.
Joseph Foreman Jr., the boyfriend of Duchaine's daughter and a suspect in Duchaine's disappearance, was arrested Wednesday in the attic of a house in Aurora after authorities received a tip, Batavia Police Chief Dennis Anderson said.
Foreman has several outstanding warrants, including a federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on an aggravated sexual assault charge filed in Wisconsin, Anderson said. He said Foreman was arrested on those warrants, and charges had yet to be filed.
Duchaine, who lives in Niagara, Wis., had been visiting her daughter in the Chicago suburb of Batavia when police were called to the apartment Friday. By the time officers arrived, Duchaine and Foreman were missing, along with Duchaine's minivan.
Paramedics took Duchaine's daughter to a nearby hospital for treatment of a fractured skull. Two children who were in the apartment when police arrived were not injured.
Authorities had found Duchaine's minivan Sunday in an Aurora neighborhood with a substance believed to be blood on the back seat, Anderson said. He said the van had two differently numbered Illinois license plates, both reported stolen from Will County.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 8, 2004 15:56:24 GMT -5
WILMINGTON, Ill. — The body of a three-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert (search) was found Sunday about four miles from her home in this small Will County community, officials said.
Wilmington Police Chief James Metta said a pair of hikers found the body of Riley Fox (search) in a section of Forked Creek that runs through Forsythe Woods.
Between 500 and 600 volunteers had been searching for the girl, Metta said.
Riley's father, Kevin Fox, reported her missing Sunday morning when he awoke and couldn't find her in the family home. The front door to the home was open, but the father said he did not know whether his daughter had opened it and wandered off or not.
Fox told police he had gone to a concert with friends Saturday night and left Riley and her brother, Tyler, 7, with their grandparents. The children's mother, Melissa, had gone to Chicago to participate in Sunday's breast cancer walk.
Kevin Fox said he picked up the children about midnight and put them to bed about a half hour later.
The Wilmington Police Department authorized a statewide Amber Alert on Sunday afternoon, police said. But the alert was called off about three hours later when her body was found.
"We have no doubt foul play was involved," said Pat Barry, a spokesman for the Will County Sheriff's department.
"But I don't believe there is a mass murderer or anything like that walking around the streets of Wilmington," he added.
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
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Post by LadyBlue on Oct 8, 2004 18:14:45 GMT -5
More than a week after she was reported missing, a 68-year-old Illinois woman with Alzheimer's disease has been found in a New York City hospital.
Annie Burns had disappeared while traveling from St. Louis to Georgia. She was found unhurt yesterday in a hospital in Brooklyn -- more than a thousand miles from her planned destination.
Burns lived with her son in Glen Carbon (Illinois) and boarded a Greyhound bus September 18th to visit her daughter. When she didn't show up at the bus stop in Albany, Georgia, her family called authorities.
A St. Louis detective used phone calls and interviews with bus drivers to track her down.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 1, 2004 11:35:52 GMT -5
A missing 44-year-old Chardon woman, last seen in Kirtland last week, was reported safe in Chicago Sunday afternoon after she escaped from her abductor, police said.
Edith Mzik was last seen dropping off her daughter, Morgan, at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland Thursday morning. A 9-1-1 call from her cell phone a half hour later was quickly dis connected.
We have her," said Chicago police officer Matthew Jackson, a department spokesman. "She is safe. We have her car."
Mzik walked into a Chicago police station Sunday and reported she had been kidnapped. Chicago police called her home about 5 p.m., and moments later Mzik and her husband, Tom, spoke.
"I love you," she said.
"And I love you, too, doll, " Tom said he told his wife of 23 years.
Mzik, a Siemens project engineer, said he could not talk about the case, but he is looking forward to his wife's arrival home. She reportedly was abducted at gunpoint by a man who jumped into her car near the Mentor Mall.
"She is just exhausted," Mzik said, adding she had not eaten, showered or had a change of clothes for four days. "She just wants to come home and sleep in our bed for a week."
Chicago police were not releasing details of the abduction or how she gained her freedom. Police did say her abductor, a man, was not in custody.
The license number of Edith Mzik's car was traced to a Chicago suburb within a day of her disappearance, according to Chardon police. Police there ran Mzik's license plate on their computer system late Thursday or early Friday. Details about why police checked her license were not available.
Mzik is a photographer at Picture People at Great Lakes Mall in Mentor. Her husband called police after learning that she never arrived at work Thursday.
Her son Joshua, 21, is an Army sergeant whose wedding had been planned for this weekend. He arrived home on leave Sunday morning.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 4, 2004 10:15:02 GMT -5
Search teams pulled the body of a missing Maple Park woman out of the Fox River Wednesday morning.
Dive teams discovered Victoria Issel, 56, just south of the Fabyan Parkway bridge in Geneva shortly after 11:30 a.m. Crews had searched the vicinity the previous day.
Kane County Sheriff Ken Ramsey called it an apparent suicide. The body had no signs of trauma from foul play or an accident that would have caused her to slip into the water.
An autopsy is scheduled for today.
Issel had been missing since Saturday when she phoned her husband in Maple Park to say she was leaving her car with her father-in-law in Geneva. An undisclosed note found on the car suggested suicide, police said. Issel had struggled with depression and gone off her medication, family said.
Although Issel had disappeared before, this was the first time she walked away from her car, ringing a warning bell with friends and family. Search teams looked for her Monday, finding some of her personal possessions near the bridge.
The next day, search dogs brought in followed Issel's scent from the car on Considine Road to the middle of the bridge. Dogs trained to find cadavers were taken out in boats and picked up the scent in the water below the bridge.
Drownings in the river occur almost yearly, but river suicides are rare, officials said.
Crews from 18 emergency or rescue agencies participated in the three-day search that at times blocked off the Fabyan Parkway bridge, the west side of the Fabyan Forest Preserve and the pedestrian bridge connecting to the preserve near the historic windmill.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 9, 2004 13:30:01 GMT -5
Police still are looking for clues about how a 36-year-old man ended up dead in a ditch south of Sugar Grove over the weekend.
A resident in Big Rock Township was walking her dog Sunday when she came across the body of Gerardo Salinas Jr., of 500 block of Fifth St. in Aurora. Salinas was lying in a ditch near the intersection of Jeter and Jericho roads.
Kane County Sheriff's deputies investigating the death have no clue how he ended up there.
Det. Craig Campbell said there were no signs of foul play or any indication why Salinas would have been in the rural area.
The Kane County Coroner's Office is expected to release results of an autopsy today. That will reveal if Salinas had any injuries or health problems. Results of a toxicology test to look for alcohol and drugs won't be available for several weeks.
Police said Salinas works as a truck driver out of Oswego and has never had any trouble with the law or any known contact with gangs. Basically, Campbell said, Salinas could be considered a model citizen.
His family reported him missing nearly a week ago. He doesn't have a history of mental illness or wandering off, Campbell said. Salinas did not leave a note.
"Right now we have more questions than answers, which is unusual," Campbell said.
Anyone with information about the victim is asked to call Kane County Sheriff Det. Craig Campbell at (630) 208-2028.
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Post by LadyBlue on Dec 21, 2004 6:19:35 GMT -5
A 21-year-old Normal resident was tentatively identified Monday as the man whose remains were recovered from a car fire in Hudson. The McLean County coroner's office said Ryan "Rudy" W. Scott of the 300 block of North University Street appears to have been in the car that was found burning early Friday morning on Lake Bloomington Road. The identification will be confirmed through DNA tests in three to five days.
The victim, who was in the driver's seat of the car, was pronounced dead at 1:40 a.m.
A car accident has been ruled out as the cause of the fire. Other possibilities include suicide, foul play or some kind of mechanical problem.
Authorities say the car was engulfed in flames and parked in the road facing west. There were no signs of damage from a crash when firefighters arrived.
No additional information was available Monday. The sheriff's department and coroner's office did not respond to requests for comment on the status of the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call the coroner's office at (309) 888-5210 or the sheriff's department at (309) 888-5051.
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Post by LadyBlue on Feb 11, 2005 9:06:26 GMT -5
A reportedly missing woman was found dead Thursday in a field near a Hoffman Estates high school.
The woman was found at 1100 W. Higgins Road in the northwestern suburb, according to a Cook County Medical Examiner's Office spokesman. Her identity was being withheld Thursday night pending family notification.
The woman was discovered at 2:30 p.m. lying in a field at the Higgins Road address, according to a Hoffman Estates police news release. Police determined she was the same 48-year-old woman from the suburb who was reported missing on Wednesday, the release said.
There were no signs of foul play, the release stated.
An SBC telephone directory listed a Hoffman Estates High School at the Higgins Road address, as did the school's Web site.
The woman was pronounced dead at 6 p.m. at the Stein Institute, the spokesman said.
A Hoffman Estates police representative would not release further information Thursday night.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 17, 2005 9:05:18 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Tia Anderson[/glow] Anderson was found safe in 2005. She had been missing since January 21, 2005 from Chicago, Illinois.
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Post by LadyBlue on Sept 18, 2005 9:12:41 GMT -5
Police have identified the mutilated remains of a girl found last month in the Little Calumet River as a missing 13-year-old from Hammond, Indiana. Chicago authorities say they have a suspect in custody. Alexandra Anaya was reported missing August 13.
Three days later, her dismembered torso was found by a boater. The body was weighed down with a chain and a concrete block. The Post-Tribune said that a post-mortem exam showed Anaya also had injuries consistent with sexual assault. In Hammond, friends remembered the popular student at Clark Middle/High School as bubbly and friendly.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 9, 2005 11:35:34 GMT -5
A body found in Rock Island Saturday is more than likely George Lister, an East Moline man who had been missing for more than two weeks. The autopsy results are inconclusive because the body was badly decomposed, but police said things found on the body like clothing and jewelry indicate it is Lister. A pathologist will check the remains against dental records. Police said the autopsy did not reveal a time or cause of death. "We're 99% sure that it's him by identifying characteristics such as rings, we are confident it's him. We can't say 100%, but we can say 99% that it's Mr. Lister." Rock Island County Sheriff Mike Grchan said. George Lister was last seen October 15th, since then his family has heard many rumors abut what happened in his disappearance. They say they aren't giving up until the facts come out. Saturday morning a person collecting cans by the intersection of Illinois 92 and Interstate 280 found something unexpected; the body of a white man. the body was decomposed so authorities haven't been able to make a positive ID. George Lister's daughter Diana is trying to keep all negative thoughts out of her mind. "The not knowing, then you let your mind wander and it's really hard when you do that so you have to stay focused." Diana McIntire said. Lister's family is staying focused by continuing the quest to raise reward money. Monday night they hosted another benefit at the American Legion in East Moline. Mark McIntire hoped to raise about $3,000 from the benefits. He said they still have a lot of money to raise, but hopes last night's benefit will get them closer to their goal. "Everything I do and everything I raise is going to go help find George and we need all the support we can get." Mark McIntire, Lister's Son-in-Law said. George Lister's family said he's still a missing person and think someday he'll be coming home. Diana said, "He's going to come back to us alive, hopefully...that's what I want." An autopsy will be performed today on the body that was found Saturday in Rock Island. www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=4080345&nav=0zGo
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2006 11:27:32 GMT -5
The body of an 18-year-old Peoria woman missing since January was found fully clothed and lying at the edge of a wooded area north of Spring Bay.
Authorities on Monday released few details about the death of Jessica A. Curless, 5619 N. Plaza Drive, though they consider it a homicide.
Her body was found Friday morning behind an abandoned house and barn at 1708 Illinois Route 26. The home has been vacant for "several years," said the man who discovered the body.
That man, who asked not to be identified, said it appeared the body had been lying on the ground for "quite some time." However, the body did not appear to be badly decomposed, he added.
During a news conference Monday, Woodford County Sheriff Jim Pierceall said his department is looking into a "person of interest" who could be connected to Curless' death, and the person could be outside of central Illinois.
Pierceall declined to discuss how Curless died, who might be connected to her death and whether suspects already linked to other crimes are involved.
The county coroner also declined to release details about the death.
"We're looking at this as a homicide," Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman said. "I think that speaks for itself."
The last time Curless was seen alive by her parents was Jan. 10. Since then, several arrests have been made for various other crimes that police have said could be linked to Curless.
"Everyone is a suspect," Ruestman said. "For the media to speculate on who may be or may
not be (involved) would jeopardize our investigation."
On Jan. 13, Curless' parents, David and Theresa Curless, received a call from police saying they found two men with their daughter's 1997 gold Pontiac Sunfire in South Peoria. After not hearing from Curless in five days, her parents contacted police.
On Jan. 22, Michael C. Hunter, 33, and Carlos A. Hobson, 51, both of 605 Eureka St. in Peoria, just blocks from where Curless was living, were arrested and have been charged with obstructing justice in connection with a theft or battery involving Curless.
Curless' parents could be reached for comment Monday.
According to past accounts from Theresa Curless, either Hunter or Hobson were inside her daughter's car when police stopped it.
The car since has been in the possession of the East Peoria Police Department for investigation of crimes in the county, but it soon will be released to the Woodford County Sheriff's Department, according to East Peoria Deputy Chief Pete Fisher.
Pierceall declined to link either Hunter or Hobson to the homicide or to discuss whether Curless is suspected of participating in any crimes.
Authorities continue to investigate a rash of home invasions, armed robberies and sexual assaults that have occurred in Tazewell and Woodford counties since last year.
Hershel Morgan, 22, of 3302 NE Madison Ave. was arrested in January in connection with one of the cases, though police have said they suspect he may be responsible for them all.
Police suspect Morgan had a female accomplice in some instances, such as during the Jan. 5 robbery of the Alamac Motel in Tremont. That woman has never been caught.
Curless' parents have said that they cannot imagine their daughter would be involved with the crime.
Jessica Curless had been described as shy girl who was active in chorus at Richwoods High School and had goals of someday being a certified nurse's assistant.
Curless recently had moved out of her parent's home and into an East Bluff couple's home, although their names have never been released.
"She's an adult," David Curless told the Journal Star last month. "Many times when we would ask questions, all we would get is, 'I don't know' responses."
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