Rockford woman strangled with neckties in 1966 murder mystery

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) – On the morning of June 9, 1966, an unknown assailant carefully slipped out of a home in far-north Rockford and disappeared, leaving a woman dead inside.

“She had been beaten up pretty bad,” said author and folklorist Kathi Kresol. “And she had been strangled with the neckties.”

The victim was 46-year-old Lauretta Lyons. She was attacked inside the Latham Road home she owned with her husband, Edwin, after walking her three poodles…

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