Police have solved the case of the missing 19-year-old woman who vanished from her Illinois village 50 years ago, but the suspected serial killer died before he could answer for his heinous deeds.
According to local authorities , Kathy Halle vanished in March 1979 while on her way to pick up her sister from a nearby North Aurora retail complex. According to Ryan Peat, a detective with the North Aurora Police Department, Halle’s body was found in the Foxe River three weeks after police first looked into the case as a missing person . He made this announcement at a news conference Wednesday.
Authorities concluded that there was insufficient evidence to identify a suspect after years of investigation, and the matter was closed.
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According to Peat, investigators didn’t look into the case again until 2020 after connecting DNA from Bruce Lindhal, a suspected serial killer who committed suicide in 1981, to the killing of Pamela Maurer. Authorities in North Aurora linked Lindhal’s DNA, which was gathered during the investigation of Maurer, to DNA evidence discovered on Halle’s clothing using cutting-edge forensic technologies.