ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — In the winter of 1965, the disappearance of an 11-year-old Rockford girl sparked a massive search effort that gripped the city and ended with the discovery of human remains in a burn barrel on the city’s far west side.
More than 60 years later, the murder of Susan Brady remains one of the most notorious crimes in local history.
“The pieces [of bone] were big enough that they could tell they came from a young, adolescent child,” said Kathi Kresol, author of “Murder & Mayhem in Rockford, Illinois.”…