Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of then-U.S. Senate candidate Charles Percy, was brutally murdered in her family’s home in the affluent North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth in 1966.
To this day, the case has never been solved.
Jan. 29, 1966: Charles Harting Percy, known to most as Chuck, announces his run for U.S. Senate as a Republican. An alum of New Trier High School and Winnetka and the University of Chicago, Percy had become the president of Lincolnwood-based camera and movie equipment Bell & Howell at the young age of 29. He had run for Illinois governor in 1964, but had lost to Democratic incumbent Otto Kerner…