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Illinois: 1981–1982: 18: Satanic cult and organized crime group composed of serial killers, cannibals, rapists, and necrophiles Robin Gecht[1] and three associates [46] Larry Eyler: Multiple: 1982–1984: 21–24: Known as the "Interstate Killer", he murdered at least 21 teenage boys and young men throughout the Midwest: Andrew Urdiales
The murder of the Grimes sisters is an unsolved double murder that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 1956, in which two sisters named Barbara and Patricia Grimes—aged 15 and 12 [n 2] respectively—disappeared while traveling from a Brighton Park movie theater to their home in McKinley Park.
Around July 1982, Freeman himself was murdered by an unidentified perpetrator in Cobden, Illinois. His decomposing body was found in a shallow grave around three months after his murder. As of 2022, the murder remains unsolved and the case remains open, and investigators believe the two murders were connected.
Jaclyn Dowaliby was born on May 17, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois, the first and only child born to James "Jimmy" and Cynthia Guess.The couple had met in the 1970s at a skating rink where Jaclyn's father worked when her mother was a teenager and her father in his early 20s; the two began a relationship which lasted for seven years but mutually separated shortly before Jaclyn's birth.
The crime was also posited to be the work, along with three other local unsolved murders, of a regional serial killer. [8] Dr. Richard Garretson, a family physician who doubled as the Jefferson County coroner, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in early December that many of his patients talked to him about the case and how it had disturbed them.
These lists of unsolved murders include notable cases where victims were murdered in unknown circumstances. List of unsolved murders (before 1900) List of unsolved murders (1900–1979) List of unsolved murders (1980–1999) List of unsolved murders (2000–present)
This pattern was recognized in 2018 through the Murder Accountability Project (MAP), which reviewed 51 unsolved strangulation and asphyxiation cases dating as far back as 2001. [6] The algorithm used by MAP sorts unsolved homicides by location, victim and killing method in order to identify clusters associated with low homicide clearance rates.
Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-809-32736-2. Nash, Jay Robert (1983). Open Files: A Narrative Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes. Maryland: M. Evans. pp. 100– 101. ISBN 978-0-070-45907-6. Newton, Michael (2009).