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…