A man who last saw his sister in 1984 finally got the answers he was looking for.
It's a case that started with very little to go on for investigators but with the advances in DNA testing, the department and a family have the closure they've been waiting on for decades.
The Will County cold case began in 1992 when a fire destroyed the Rust Craft building in Joliet. Debris from the demolition was moved to a landfill in nearby Rockdale."We knew from forensic anthropologists it was a female between 17 and 27," said Joseph Piper, a cold case investigator with the Will County Coroner's Office.The specialized unit was formed in 2008. Summers has been coroner in Will County since 2020.
The lab came back with a match of possible relatives. It was the crack in the case these veteran investigators had been working for.
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