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This podcast is based on information sourced primarily from police
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and media reports, but certain names and other identifying details
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may have been changed or altered for privacy and security reasons.
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While the events in cases discussed are based on real investigations,
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some aspects may be simplified for time and for narrative purposes.
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Hosts may discuss theories regarding the cases examined in this podcast,
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but such discussions are not intended to and should not
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be considered by the listener to be legal conclusions. All
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persons discussed are considered innocent until proven guilty in a
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court of law. Listener discretion is advised.
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This is Chief Anna Lally. Welcome to Somebody Knows Something,
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a podcast from the Elgin Police Department's Cold Case Unit.
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In this podcast, we will shed new light on cold
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cases in the city of Elgin by sharing untold details
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and by encouraging anyone with information to come forward. You
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will come along with real cold case detectives as they
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investigate active cold cases in real time and seek justice
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for the victims and closure for their families. We believe
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that the Elgin Police Department and our community can work
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together to bring closure to cold cases because we know
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that in these cases, somebody knows something.
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Hello and welcome to Somebody knows something the Elgin Police
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Department Cold Case Podcast.
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My name is Detective Andrew Houghton.
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And I'm Detective Chris Hall.
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Last episode, we traveled to Joliet, Illinois to search for
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clues in Myteria's disappearance, talked about other missing girls from
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the nineteen eighties in Will County. We also identified and
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visited the Joliet Motor Hotel and learned that the family
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who owned both the Douglas Hotel and the Joliet Motor
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Lodge had some ties to another hotel in Texas. In fact,
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one former tenant told us that the owners helped facilitate
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bus travel to Texas for several tenants in Joliet, So
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we have to consider that maybe tenants from the Douglas
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Hotel had that option as well, or that the owners
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helped facilitate travel to Joliet.
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Before we get into our theories for Aurora in this episode,
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we do want to update listeners on that potential Texas
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connection that we got a few weeks back. The tenant
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from the former Joliet Motor Hotel told us that he
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took a bus to Raymondville, Texas and stayed there for
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a brief period of time at another hotel that the
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Zema family owned. Last week, after digging through the Texas
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hotel occupancy tax accounts corly reports from nineteen eighty six,
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I actually found a hotel that we believe is the
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hotel he went to.
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Andrew discovered that chet Zema paid taxes in the third
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quarter of nineteen eighty six for the Raymondville Hotel located
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at four point fifty East Hildago and Raymondville, Texas. Unfortunately,
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the Texas hotel occupancy tax account records we found only
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go back to nineteen eighty six, so we are still
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looking to find out if the family owned the same
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hotel in nineteen eighty two, but we feel that we've
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at least identified the right property. We are also still
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searching for more records for both the Douglas Hotel and
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the Joliet Motor Lodge, so if any listeners have any
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information about those hotels, or if any listeners in Texas
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have the information about the Raymondville Hotel, please reach.
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Out to us.
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Well, now that that's out of the way, let's move
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on to another city that's much closer than Raymondville, Texas,
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and it's a place that we know Whyteria definitely had
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ties to Aurora, Illinois. As we talk about Aurora, there's
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one more thing we should mention that might make Aurora
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plausible destination than Joliette. As we reviewed the RTA records,
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we discovered that there was a suburban bus line that
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directly connected Elgin to Aurora. In fact, Bus eight oh
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one left Elgin and traveled south on Illinois Route thirty one,
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passing the Elgin Mental Health Center on its way to Aurora,
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and that bus could have dropped by Terry Off on
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Lake Street, just a few blocks from our house.
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Aurora is a large city here in the western suburbs
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of Illinois. In nineteen eighty two, it boasted a population
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of over eighty thousand, making it one of the largest
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cities in the Chicago Land area. When a number of
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industrial parks and businesses came to the city in the
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nineteen eighties, the blue collar town grew from the fifth
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largest city in Illinois and nineteen ninety.
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To the second largest today.
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As of twenty twenty five, Aurora has a population of
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just over one hundred and eighty thousand people, and it
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remains a large industrial hub here in the Chicago land.
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Area, similar to Joliette, Will County. We looked for missing
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person cases in Aurora and the surrounding area from the
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early nineteen eighties, but we didn't really find anything similar
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to Whiteria's case. Because of its size, Aurora is actually
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situated in four different counties, Caine County, DuPage County, Kendall County,
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and Will County. We've already discussed some of the Will
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County cases in our joliet episode, but the oldest Aurora
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missing person case in the National Missing and Unidentified Person
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System or NamUs is from nineteen ninety, so we haven't
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found anything similar to Waiitiu's case from the nineteen eighties,
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at least not yet.
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We checked the surrounding area cases and in the other
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three counties too, but we didn't come across any women
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who disappeared in Cain, du Page, or Kendall County between
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nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty five. DuPage County does have
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Deborah McCall, who disappeared in nineteen seventy nine, who Andrew
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and Matt mentioned in season one, but the rest of
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the cases from those counties are from the nineteen nineties.
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Longtime listeners to our podcast will remember Deborah McCall. She
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was a sixteen year old high school student at Downers
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Grove North High School when she was last seen on
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November fifth of nineteen seventy nine, wearing a beige hooded jacket,
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a sweater, blue jeans, light brown.
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Suede shoes, and a yellow necklace.
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Polease suspect that she was the victim of the area
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serial killer named Bruce Lindall, who potentially murdered at least
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twelve women between nineteen seventy six and nineteen eighty one,
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because a photograph that appeared to be Deborah was found
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in his belongings. Unfortunately, her body has never been recovered.
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As for Waityria's case, Bruce Lindall was dead by nineteen
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eighty one, and so similar to Karen's case, he is
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not a suspect in her disappearance.
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As for Elgin, Andrew and I know all of our
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missing persons from both Kine and Cook Counties. Currently, Waitityia
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is our oldest case on record, and as the date
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of this recording, we have not located any other area
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missing people from Kane County that are similar to Waitiria's case.
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Last season, Chris and I talked about the Ripper Crew,
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and we know that during the nineteen eighties they were
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active in the western suburbs Chicago. In fact, they were
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even active in the fall of nineteen eighty two when
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Waiteria vanished. A number of their victims were black women
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who were alone, but most of their known victims remains
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have been recovered, and they were typically recovered within months
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of their murder. We certainly can't rule out that some
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unknown offender abducted or harmed Whiteria in some way in
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Elgin or Juliet, or Aurora or somewhere else, but so
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far we haven't found any evidence to link her to
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another case like that, or any serial offenders, or even
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the Ripper Crew specifically.
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Well, while we have not linked Witeria to any active
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serial killers or other offenders in the area, it is
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still possible that she was a victim of a violent
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crime on our way to Aurora or while in Aurora.
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So let's consider the option that Waiteria did actually arrive
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in Aurora and talk about the people that were in
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her life when she did live there. The most notable
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person perhaps is her husband and the man who reported
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her missing, Wayman Jones.
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Anytime we look at these old cases, the one thing
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we spend a lot of time doing is reviewing criminal
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history of all the people involved if they have one,
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and we interview as many people as we can who
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knew the victim or any suspects around that time that
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the case happened. Typically we start with the missing person
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because we need to know if they've been arrested, what
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type of background they have, things like that.
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For this case, we.
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Know that Waiteria did not have any criminal history in
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her background and that she was never arrested.
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As for Wayman Jones, he died in twenty thirteen, so
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while we can't interview him about the case or his background,
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we can review his criminal history to get a sense
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of his background. On May nineteenth, nineteen eighty Wayman Jones
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was arrested by the Chicago Police Department in the tenth
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District of Chicago for a simple battery. The tenth District
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is located on the West Side of Chicago and includes
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the neighborhoods of North Lawndale, Little Village, and Lower West Side.
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The records that we have document that Wyman was living
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in a when he was arrested, but he clearly still
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had ties to the city of Chicago, where he and
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Whityria lived prior to their move to Aurora. The problem
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was that for months we didn't know who the victim
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was in that case or the circumstances surrounding it. And
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because it is over forty five years old, the arrest
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records for a simple battery case are far beyond the
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retention period, so many records like that no longer exist.
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Longtime listeners who will recall that when Andrew and Matt
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tried to find records from the nineteen eighty three case
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related to the person who left the series of beaver
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squeezer letters in Susannah's car at PM Bentley's, those cases
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no longer existed, so we were afraid that the same
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might be true in this case.
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Luckily, Chris was able to get some records from the
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archives of the Chicago Police Department, and we learned that
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the case involved a juvenile at a school in Chicago.
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Weyman at the time was working at the Chicago Public
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School System and the complainant for the case appeared to
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be the mother of a child at a school where
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he was working in nineteen eighty. The report is brief,
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but we can at least say that Waitia was not
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the victim in that case. Initially, we were concerned that
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she might be because the Illinois Domestic Violence Act wasn't
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passing Illinois until several years after the nineteen eighty arrest,
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a domestic battery as a statutory offense wasn't on the
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books until nineteen ninety. Our initial thought was that this
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case could have been a domestic battery and just classified
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as a simple battery back in nineteen eighty, depending on
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how the law was written then. But based on the
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records we got from Beth and at Chris Scott, we
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now know that Whyteria was living in Elgin in nineteen
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eighty when this battery occurred, and she was not the
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victim in that case.
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Yes, so now we know that she was not involved
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in that case. But knowing that Wyman was accused of
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in charge with the battery to a girl is helpful
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and gives us a little more insight into his background,
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and to be fully transparent, we should add that the
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case against Wyman was later dismissed, but any arrest in
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a person's history is something that we wanted to at
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least be aware of or consider.
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Even though Wyman's arrest for battery was not against Waiteria,
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some family members reported.
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That he was physically abusive.
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At least one family member told police in twenty fourteen
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that Waiitiia was missing her two front teeth because Wayman
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had knocked him out when he punched her in the
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face during an argument sometime around nineteen seventy four. So
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we have some potential evidence of domestic abuse, and we
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have this prior arrest for simple battery.
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Yes, so we have a family member making allegations of
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some physical altercations between Wayman and Wateria. And we also
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know from our training and experience that emotional and especially
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physical abuse in a relationship can often escalate.
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According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, nearly one in
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four women have experienced rape, physical assault, or stalking in
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their lifetime, and according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics,
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seventy six percent of female murderers were perpetrated by someone
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known to the victim. That's twenty percent higher than male victims.
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So statistically, women are much more likely to be killed
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by an intimate partner or a person who is known
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to them than a man is.
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We can also take the reverse approach when looking at statistics.
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When looking at stranger murders, only twelve percent of females
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were murdered by total strangers versus twenty one percent of men. Again,
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and we know that at least from a statistical perspective,
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it is much more likely that Wayteria, if she was murdered,
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for example, was killed by someone she knew. And obviously
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we can't assume anything, but it is worth at least noting.
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Since we are on the topic of domestic violence, we
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wanted to mention another factor in domestic related homicides, and
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that factor is strangulation. We want to be clear that
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we don't have any reports that Wayman or anyone else
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strangled Wayteria in the past, but we thought we would
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mention that here since we are talking about domestic violence.
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In the Journal of Emergency Medicine in two thousand and seven,
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researchers reviewed data from eleven cities and determined that forty
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five percent of women who were murdered by an intimate
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partner have been non fatally strangled at least one time
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prior to that homicide. In fact, a single instance of
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non fatal strangulation increased that victim's chances of being murdered
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by that suspect by over six hundred percent. While some
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of the research is a bit dated, even as recently
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as twenty twenty four, organizations like Domestic Shelters dot org
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noted that strangulation is the highest predictor of murder.
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While they are not related to Iteria's case, our cold
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case homicide caseload currently includes three strangulation murders, all from
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the nineteen nineties, and all three of them involved women
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who were murdered in their own homes. To make them
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even more tragic, all three women were mothers. Let's briefly
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discuss those three homicides.
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On November seventeenth, nineteen ninety two, Ginia lang Goosh was
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strangled in her apartment on Saint Charles Street here in Elgin.
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She was murdered one day before her thirtieth birthday, and
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her two year old son was sleeping in the home
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when she was murdered. Gina's case remains an active cold
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case investigation on our current caseload.
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Then, on November twenty first, nineteen ninety four, twenty eight
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year old Tracy Boyer was found strangled and stabbed to
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death in her apartment at the River's Edge Apartments near
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downtown Elgin. Her nine year old daughter returned home from
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a weekend with her biological father and a day at
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school and found Tracy. Tracy's two and a half year
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old daughter was also discovered alive in the apartment with
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her mother. The unknown offender left that toddler alone the
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apartment with her mother for possibly twenty four to forty
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eight hours. Her case, like Gina's, is an active cold
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case homicide on our case load.
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And lastly, on April thirteenth, nineteen ninety nine, a witness
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observed a two year old little girl wandering the hallway
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of an apartment building on Locust Street. Police identified the
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mother of the child. When they checked the apartment, they
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discovered twenty year old Monique Love dead inside. Her eleven
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month old son was found alive and unharmed inside the
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apartment with his dead mother. Her case remains a cold
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case to this day.
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Reminding people that these cases exist and educating people about
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domestic violence is one more way we can use this
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platform to help solve cases and help people in our community.
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You can read more about the cases we just discussed
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on our website, and if you have information about Gina's case,
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or Tracy's case, or Monique's case, please contact us.
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Also, if you are someone you know I have experienced
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domestic violence, especially domestic violence in which an intimate partner
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has strangled someone, please contact law enforcement.
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We are all here to help.
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You can report domestic violence to your local police department,
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crisis center, or to places like the National Domestic Violence
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Hotline at eight seven seven two end DV.
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That's d David v.
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Victor, which is also eight seven seven eight six three
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six' three three. Eight breaking the cycle of domestic violence
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is extremely, hard but taking that first step allows us
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to provide services and hopefully prevent further, abuse including a potential.
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Homicide the main.
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Takeaway from our research into domestic violence and our own
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experiences with it as police officers is that a person
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who physically assaults an intimate partner is more likely to
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also then murder that partner in a subsequent, incident especially
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if a prior assault involves. Strangulation For, wyman we don't
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have any evidence of, strangulation but we certainly have at
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least one prior arrest for a battery against a, victim
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and we have a family member who reported that there
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was physical violence within the. Home so while again we
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are not saying That weyman was responsible For waitia's, disappearance
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we can eliminate that as a. Possibility yet if she
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did go back To, aurora.
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Yeah we can't say for, sure at least not.
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Yet If waiitia did make a trip back To aurora
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in the fall of nineteen eighty, two So, Chris beth
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AND i decided we should take a trip down To
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aurora ourselves to see the place where she lived and
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a continue investigation into the disappearance Of Whiteria.
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Jones to get To.
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Aurora we decided to drive the same route that the
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bus would have taken from Downtown elgin to the bus
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stop near her, home so we could recreate that potential
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route best that we.
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Could All, right so it.
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Looks like we've traveled directly from one of the bus
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stops In elgin southbound On route thirty.
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One all the way To.
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Aurora, here this probably would have been the most direct
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route that Why teria would have taken back in the
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day that she chose to travel From elgin To.
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Aurora, yeah the Direct aurora bus went from Downtown elton
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down thirty one and then Fits Lake. Avenue i'm, Sorry
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lake streams once you've been under a la here Because
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i'm standing.
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At the bus, stop it looks like this bus stop
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here is probably only a few walks away from her
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address On hammon talking about, Right, YEAH.
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I think it's when it's the eight hundred. Block, yeah
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so it's about six or seven blocks.
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From here to, there which is a very walkable distance
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from our house to the bus stop.
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Alone, yeah thirty. ONE a couple of different bus stops
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Along Lake avenue bins seem like the most logical and
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con didnt Olver panhammer Because hammond run in the same.
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Direction it's parallel we are, now so we're gonna walk
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this bus stop to the eight hundred block from kind
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see how long it takes. Us not a lot of
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sidewalks through these, neighborhoods but pretty. Goods but you can
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definitely make it pretty much straight over To hammond from,
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here and as we kind of get up To, hammond
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it took us what fifteen, Minutes, YEAH i would say
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maybe to walk over.
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Here so.
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It's not that, Far, no not at.
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All and it's a nice residential kind of. Area this
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neighborhood that we're.
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In this is you, know your typical blue Collar northwest
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Suburb chicago. Neighborhood you, know mainly blue.
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Collar probably most of these houses were built in the.
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FIFTIES i would take, guess, yeah something like.
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That, right and look at. It the size of the
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time pounded al the mental Health center when she used
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to be, there and she used to walk all over
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the place over. There, yeah SO i MEAN i think
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her walking what seven BLOCKS i think is what we. Counted,
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yeah there's not anything. Crazy it seems like it would
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make sense if this was her destination that getting back
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To hammon would be pretty. Simple from Downtown elgin is
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not unheard of for her to go that. Far like you,
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said she walked around quite a bit when she was
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At Belgium Mittal Health. Center and then to get From
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elgin To, aurora it's about a.
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Two block walk To Grove.
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Top the bus ride about a half hour and then
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walk fifteen minutes to get To. Hammond pretty, givable so
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it would make sense this was the route she decided to.
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Take The jones family's former home is a, small single
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family brick home in the eight hundred block Of Hammond,
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avenue and it was built in nineteen twenty. Seven the three,
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bedroom one bath home looks pretty much what you would
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expect out of A chicago suburban, home or even a
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home In chicago. Itself it's a pretty little house with
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a porch and a and it sits along a free line.
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Street the lawn is well, kept and a single car
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garage sits behind the. Home in the nineteen eighties and even,
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today it looks like the quintessential working class neighborhood Of,
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chicago reminiscent of a film By John, Hughes The Brick.
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Homes that's just a few blocks from the bus stop
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where bus eight on one could have Dropped watiria off
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on its route from Downtown elgin Through. Aurora With famiies
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still in town at that time and with prior connections
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to the, city that trip does make logical sense when
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we think about the logistics of travel in The Fox
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valley area in nineteen eighty. Two while we now know
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that she was not living In aurora prior to her
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move To elgin in nineteen seventy, five it's still is
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possible that she decided to travel back there after The
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Douglas hotel, closed but we still don't know what happened to.
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Her we, did, however find out one more thing as
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we reviewed old records For Wayman, jones and it involved
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another violent incident that could be relevant To whiteria's. Case
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nearly two decades before her, disappearance all the way back
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in nineteen sixty, Seven Wayman jones was arrested in the
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city Of, chicago and that arrest was for. Murder next, Episode,
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Beth chris AND i will be traveling To chicago to
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see the site of a murder connected To Wayman jones
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and visit the neighborhood where he And whiteria lived prior
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to their move To. Elgin while we're, there we will
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dive deeper Into Wyman jones' background in his nineteen sixty
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seven arrest as we continue considering our theory that something
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could have happened To whiteria And aurora back in nineteen
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eighty two here On Somebody Knows.
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Something if you or.
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Anyone you know has information about this case or any
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other cold case In, elgin please contact The Elgin Police
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Department Cold case email at Cold case tips at elginil
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dot gov or the cold case tip line at eight
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four seven two eight nine. Cold you can also review
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cold case information on The Elgin Police department's cold case
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page at www dot elgincoldcases dot, com where every cold, case,
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homicide and missing person's case is listed with photographs and
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information about each.
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This is Chief Anna Lally. Welcome to Somebody Knows Something,
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a podcast from the Elgin Police Department's Cold Case Unit.
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In this podcast, we will shed new light on cold
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cases in the city of Elgin by sharing untold details
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will come along with real cold case detectives as they
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investigate active cold cases in real time and seek justice
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for the victims and closure for their families. We believe
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that the Elgin Police Department and our community can work
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together to bring closure to cold cases because we know
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that in these cases, somebody knows something.
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Hello and welcome to Somebody knows something the Elgin Police
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Department Cold Case Podcast.
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My name is Detective Andrew Houghton.
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Last episode, we traveled to Joliet, Illinois to search for
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clues in Myteria's disappearance, talked about other missing girls from
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the nineteen eighties in Will County. We also identified and
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visited the Joliet Motor Hotel and learned that the family
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who owned both the Douglas Hotel and the Joliet Motor
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Lodge had some ties to another hotel in Texas. In fact,
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one former tenant told us that the owners helped facilitate
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bus travel to Texas for several tenants in Joliet, So
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we have to consider that maybe tenants from the Douglas
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we do want to update listeners on that potential Texas
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connection that we got a few weeks back. The tenant
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from the former Joliet Motor Hotel told us that he
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took a bus to Raymondville, Texas and stayed there for
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a brief period of time at another hotel that the
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Zema family owned. Last week, after digging through the Texas
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hotel occupancy tax accounts corly reports from nineteen eighty six,
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I actually found a hotel that we believe is the
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hotel he went to.
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Andrew discovered that chet Zema paid taxes in the third
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quarter of nineteen eighty six for the Raymondville Hotel located
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at four point fifty East Hildago and Raymondville, Texas. Unfortunately,
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the Texas hotel occupancy tax account records we found only
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go back to nineteen eighty six, so we are still
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looking to find out if the family owned the same
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hotel in nineteen eighty two, but we feel that we've
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at least identified the right property. We are also still
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searching for more records for both the Douglas Hotel and
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the Joliet Motor Lodge, so if any listeners have any
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information about those hotels, or if any listeners in Texas
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have the information about the Raymondville Hotel, please reach.
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Well, now that that's out of the way, let's move
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and it's a place that we know Whyteria definitely had
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ties to Aurora, Illinois. As we talk about Aurora, there's
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one more thing we should mention that might make Aurora
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plausible destination than Joliette. As we reviewed the RTA records,
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we discovered that there was a suburban bus line that
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directly connected Elgin to Aurora. In fact, Bus eight oh
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one left Elgin and traveled south on Illinois Route thirty one,
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passing the Elgin Mental Health Center on its way to Aurora,
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and that bus could have dropped by Terry Off on
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Lake Street, just a few blocks from our house.
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Aurora is a large city here in the western suburbs
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of Illinois. In nineteen eighty two, it boasted a population
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of over eighty thousand, making it one of the largest
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cities in the Chicago Land area. When a number of
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industrial parks and businesses came to the city in the
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nineteen eighties, the blue collar town grew from the fifth
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largest city in Illinois and nineteen ninety.
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To the second largest today.
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just over one hundred and eighty thousand people, and it
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remains a large industrial hub here in the Chicago land.
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Area, similar to Joliette, Will County. We looked for missing
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person cases in Aurora and the surrounding area from the
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early nineteen eighties, but we didn't really find anything similar
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to Whiteria's case. Because of its size, Aurora is actually
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situated in four different counties, Caine County, DuPage County, Kendall County,
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and Will County. We've already discussed some of the Will
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County cases in our joliet episode, but the oldest Aurora
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missing person case in the National Missing and Unidentified Person
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System or NamUs is from nineteen ninety, so we haven't
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found anything similar to Waiitiu's case from the nineteen eighties,
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at least not yet.
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We checked the surrounding area cases and in the other
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three counties too, but we didn't come across any women
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who disappeared in Cain, du Page, or Kendall County between
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nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty five. DuPage County does have
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Deborah McCall, who disappeared in nineteen seventy nine, who Andrew
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and Matt mentioned in season one, but the rest of
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the cases from those counties are from the nineteen nineties.
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Longtime listeners to our podcast will remember Deborah McCall. She
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was a sixteen year old high school student at Downers
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Grove North High School when she was last seen on
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November fifth of nineteen seventy nine, wearing a beige hooded jacket,
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a sweater, blue jeans, light brown.
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Suede shoes, and a yellow necklace.
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Polease suspect that she was the victim of the area
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serial killer named Bruce Lindall, who potentially murdered at least
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twelve women between nineteen seventy six and nineteen eighty one,
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because a photograph that appeared to be Deborah was found
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in his belongings. Unfortunately, her body has never been recovered.
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eighty one, and so similar to Karen's case, he is
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not a suspect in her disappearance.
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As for Elgin, Andrew and I know all of our
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missing persons from both Kine and Cook Counties. Currently, Waitityia
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is our oldest case on record, and as the date
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of this recording, we have not located any other area
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missing people from Kane County that are similar to Waitiria's case.
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Last season, Chris and I talked about the Ripper Crew,
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and we know that during the nineteen eighties they were
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active in the western suburbs Chicago. In fact, they were
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even active in the fall of nineteen eighty two when
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Waiteria vanished. A number of their victims were black women
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who were alone, but most of their known victims remains
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have been recovered, and they were typically recovered within months
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of their murder. We certainly can't rule out that some
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unknown offender abducted or harmed Whiteria in some way in
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Elgin or Juliet, or Aurora or somewhere else, but so
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far we haven't found any evidence to link her to
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another case like that, or any serial offenders, or even
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the Ripper Crew specifically.
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Well, while we have not linked Witeria to any active
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serial killers or other offenders in the area, it is
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still possible that she was a victim of a violent
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crime on our way to Aurora or while in Aurora.
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in Aurora and talk about the people that were in
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her life when she did live there. The most notable
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person perhaps is her husband and the man who reported
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her missing, Wayman Jones.
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we spend a lot of time doing is reviewing criminal
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history of all the people involved if they have one,
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and we interview as many people as we can who
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knew the victim or any suspects around that time that
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the case happened. Typically we start with the missing person
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because we need to know if they've been arrested, what
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type of background they have, things like that.
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her background and that she was never arrested.
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while we can't interview him about the case or his background,
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we can review his criminal history to get a sense
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of his background. On May nineteenth, nineteen eighty Wayman Jones
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was arrested by the Chicago Police Department in the tenth
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District of Chicago for a simple battery. The tenth District
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is located on the West Side of Chicago and includes
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the neighborhoods of North Lawndale, Little Village, and Lower West Side.
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in a when he was arrested, but he clearly still
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had ties to the city of Chicago, where he and
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Whityria lived prior to their move to Aurora. The problem
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was that for months we didn't know who the victim
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was in that case or the circumstances surrounding it. And
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because it is over forty five years old, the arrest
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records for a simple battery case are far beyond the
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retention period, so many records like that no longer exist.
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tried to find records from the nineteen eighty three case
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related to the person who left the series of beaver
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squeezer letters in Susannah's car at PM Bentley's, those cases
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no longer existed, so we were afraid that the same
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might be true in this case.
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archives of the Chicago Police Department, and we learned that
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the case involved a juvenile at a school in Chicago.
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Weyman at the time was working at the Chicago Public
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School System and the complainant for the case appeared to
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be the mother of a child at a school where
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he was working in nineteen eighty. The report is brief,
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but we can at least say that Waitia was not
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the victim in that case. Initially, we were concerned that
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she might be because the Illinois Domestic Violence Act wasn't
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passing Illinois until several years after the nineteen eighty arrest,
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a domestic battery as a statutory offense wasn't on the
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books until nineteen ninety. Our initial thought was that this
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case could have been a domestic battery and just classified
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as a simple battery back in nineteen eighty, depending on
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how the law was written then. But based on the
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records we got from Beth and at Chris Scott, we
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now know that Whyteria was living in Elgin in nineteen
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eighty when this battery occurred, and she was not the
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victim in that case.
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in that case. But knowing that Wyman was accused of
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in charge with the battery to a girl is helpful
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and gives us a little more insight into his background,
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and to be fully transparent, we should add that the
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case against Wyman was later dismissed, but any arrest in
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a person's history is something that we wanted to at
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least be aware of or consider.
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Even though Wyman's arrest for battery was not against Waiteria,
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some family members reported.
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That he was physically abusive.
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that Waiitiia was missing her two front teeth because Wayman
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had knocked him out when he punched her in the
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face during an argument sometime around nineteen seventy four. So
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we have some potential evidence of domestic abuse, and we
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have this prior arrest for simple battery.
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some physical altercations between Wayman and Wateria. And we also
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know from our training and experience that emotional and especially
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physical abuse in a relationship can often escalate.
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According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, nearly one in
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four women have experienced rape, physical assault, or stalking in
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their lifetime, and according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics,
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seventy six percent of female murderers were perpetrated by someone
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known to the victim. That's twenty percent higher than male victims.
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by an intimate partner or a person who is known
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to them than a man is.
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When looking at stranger murders, only twelve percent of females
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were murdered by total strangers versus twenty one percent of men. Again,
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and we know that at least from a statistical perspective,
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it is much more likely that Wayteria, if she was murdered,
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for example, was killed by someone she knew. And obviously
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we can't assume anything, but it is worth at least noting.
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wanted to mention another factor in domestic related homicides, and
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that factor is strangulation. We want to be clear that
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we don't have any reports that Wayman or anyone else
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strangled Wayteria in the past, but we thought we would
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mention that here since we are talking about domestic violence.
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In the Journal of Emergency Medicine in two thousand and seven,
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researchers reviewed data from eleven cities and determined that forty
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five percent of women who were murdered by an intimate
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partner have been non fatally strangled at least one time
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prior to that homicide. In fact, a single instance of
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non fatal strangulation increased that victim's chances of being murdered
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by that suspect by over six hundred percent. While some
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of the research is a bit dated, even as recently
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as twenty twenty four, organizations like Domestic Shelters dot org
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noted that strangulation is the highest predictor of murder.
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While they are not related to Iteria's case, our cold
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case homicide caseload currently includes three strangulation murders, all from
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the nineteen nineties, and all three of them involved women
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who were murdered in their own homes. To make them
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even more tragic, all three women were mothers. Let's briefly
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discuss those three homicides.
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On November seventeenth, nineteen ninety two, Ginia lang Goosh was
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strangled in her apartment on Saint Charles Street here in Elgin.
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She was murdered one day before her thirtieth birthday, and
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her two year old son was sleeping in the home
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when she was murdered. Gina's case remains an active cold
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case investigation on our current caseload.
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Then, on November twenty first, nineteen ninety four, twenty eight
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year old Tracy Boyer was found strangled and stabbed to
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death in her apartment at the River's Edge Apartments near
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downtown Elgin. Her nine year old daughter returned home from
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a weekend with her biological father and a day at
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school and found Tracy. Tracy's two and a half year
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old daughter was also discovered alive in the apartment with
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her mother. The unknown offender left that toddler alone the
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apartment with her mother for possibly twenty four to forty
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eight hours. Her case, like Gina's, is an active cold
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case homicide on our case load.
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observed a two year old little girl wandering the hallway
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of an apartment building on Locust Street. Police identified the
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mother of the child. When they checked the apartment, they
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discovered twenty year old Monique Love dead inside. Her eleven
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month old son was found alive and unharmed inside the
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apartment with his dead mother. Her case remains a cold
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case to this day.
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Reminding people that these cases exist and educating people about
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domestic violence is one more way we can use this
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platform to help solve cases and help people in our community.
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You can read more about the cases we just discussed
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on our website, and if you have information about Gina's case,
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or Tracy's case, or Monique's case, please contact us.
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Also, if you are someone you know I have experienced
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domestic violence, especially domestic violence in which an intimate partner
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has strangled someone, please contact law enforcement.
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We are all here to help.
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You can report domestic violence to your local police department,
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crisis center, or to places like the National Domestic Violence
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Hotline at eight seven seven two end DV.
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Victor, which is also eight seven seven eight six three
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six' three three. Eight breaking the cycle of domestic violence
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is extremely, hard but taking that first step allows us
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to provide services and hopefully prevent further, abuse including a potential.
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Homicide the main.
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experiences with it as police officers is that a person
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who physically assaults an intimate partner is more likely to
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also then murder that partner in a subsequent, incident especially
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if a prior assault involves. Strangulation For, wyman we don't
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have any evidence of, strangulation but we certainly have at
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least one prior arrest for a battery against a, victim
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and we have a family member who reported that there
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was physical violence within the. Home so while again we
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are not saying That weyman was responsible For waitia's, disappearance
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we can eliminate that as a. Possibility yet if she
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did go back To, aurora.
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Yeah we can't say for, sure at least not.
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Yet If waiitia did make a trip back To aurora
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in the fall of nineteen eighty, two So, Chris beth
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AND i decided we should take a trip down To
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aurora ourselves to see the place where she lived and
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a continue investigation into the disappearance Of Whiteria.
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Jones to get To.
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Aurora we decided to drive the same route that the
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bus would have taken from Downtown elgin to the bus
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stop near her, home so we could recreate that potential
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route best that we.
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Could All, right so it.
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Looks like we've traveled directly from one of the bus
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stops In elgin southbound On route thirty.
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One all the way To.
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Aurora, here this probably would have been the most direct
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route that Why teria would have taken back in the
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day that she chose to travel From elgin To.
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Aurora, yeah the Direct aurora bus went from Downtown elton
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down thirty one and then Fits Lake. Avenue i'm, Sorry
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lake streams once you've been under a la here Because
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i'm standing.
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At the bus, stop it looks like this bus stop
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here is probably only a few walks away from her
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address On hammon talking about, Right, YEAH.
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I think it's when it's the eight hundred. Block, yeah
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so it's about six or seven blocks.
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From here to, there which is a very walkable distance
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from our house to the bus stop.
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Alone, yeah thirty. ONE a couple of different bus stops
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Along Lake avenue bins seem like the most logical and
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con didnt Olver panhammer Because hammond run in the same.
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Direction it's parallel we are, now so we're gonna walk
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this bus stop to the eight hundred block from kind
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see how long it takes. Us not a lot of
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sidewalks through these, neighborhoods but pretty. Goods but you can
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definitely make it pretty much straight over To hammond from,
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here and as we kind of get up To, hammond
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it took us what fifteen, Minutes, YEAH i would say
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maybe to walk over.
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Here so.
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It's not that, Far, no not at.
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All and it's a nice residential kind of. Area this
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neighborhood that we're.
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In this is you, know your typical blue Collar northwest
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Suburb chicago. Neighborhood you, know mainly blue.
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Collar probably most of these houses were built in the.
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FIFTIES i would take, guess, yeah something like.
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That, right and look at. It the size of the
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time pounded al the mental Health center when she used
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to be, there and she used to walk all over
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the place over. There, yeah SO i MEAN i think
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her walking what seven BLOCKS i think is what we. Counted,
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yeah there's not anything. Crazy it seems like it would
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make sense if this was her destination that getting back
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To hammon would be pretty. Simple from Downtown elgin is
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not unheard of for her to go that. Far like you,
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said she walked around quite a bit when she was
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At Belgium Mittal Health. Center and then to get From
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elgin To, aurora it's about a.
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Two block walk To Grove.
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Top the bus ride about a half hour and then
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walk fifteen minutes to get To. Hammond pretty, givable so
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it would make sense this was the route she decided to.
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Take The jones family's former home is a, small single
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family brick home in the eight hundred block Of Hammond,
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avenue and it was built in nineteen twenty. Seven the three,
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bedroom one bath home looks pretty much what you would
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expect out of A chicago suburban, home or even a
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home In chicago. Itself it's a pretty little house with
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a porch and a and it sits along a free line.
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Street the lawn is well, kept and a single car
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garage sits behind the. Home in the nineteen eighties and even,
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today it looks like the quintessential working class neighborhood Of,
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chicago reminiscent of a film By John, Hughes The Brick.
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Homes that's just a few blocks from the bus stop
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where bus eight on one could have Dropped watiria off
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on its route from Downtown elgin Through. Aurora With famiies
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still in town at that time and with prior connections
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to the, city that trip does make logical sense when
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we think about the logistics of travel in The Fox
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valley area in nineteen eighty. Two while we now know
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that she was not living In aurora prior to her
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move To elgin in nineteen seventy, five it's still is
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possible that she decided to travel back there after The
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Douglas hotel, closed but we still don't know what happened to.
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Her we, did, however find out one more thing as
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we reviewed old records For Wayman, jones and it involved
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another violent incident that could be relevant To whiteria's. Case
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nearly two decades before her, disappearance all the way back
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in nineteen sixty, Seven Wayman jones was arrested in the
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city Of, chicago and that arrest was for. Murder next, Episode,
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Beth chris AND i will be traveling To chicago to
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see the site of a murder connected To Wayman jones
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and visit the neighborhood where he And whiteria lived prior
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to their move To. Elgin while we're, there we will
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dive deeper Into Wyman jones' background in his nineteen sixty
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seven arrest as we continue considering our theory that something
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could have happened To whiteria And aurora back in nineteen
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eighty two here On Somebody Knows.
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Something if you or.
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Anyone you know has information about this case or any
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other cold case In, elgin please contact The Elgin Police
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Department Cold case email at Cold case tips at elginil
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dot gov or the cold case tip line at eight
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four seven two eight nine. Cold you can also review
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cold case information on The Elgin Police department's cold case
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page at www dot elgincoldcases dot, com where every cold, case,
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homicide and missing person's case is listed with photographs and
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information about each.
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