'We finally put a name and a face to this monster.' Illinois officials ID killer of 16-year-old girl in 1976. Man, now dead, believed to be linked to other cases.
by Clifford Ward, Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, Robert McCoppin And Erin Hegarty, Chicago Tribune
Jan 14, 2020
3 minutes
WHEATON, Ill. - An unsolved string of killings of young suburban Chicago women in the 1970s frustrated police for decades. Now authorities in DuPage County, Ill., believe that by cracking one of those cold cases, they may have uncovered the trail of a serial killer.
By digging up the remains of the suspect, and matching his DNA to the crime, investigators were able to identify Bruce Lindahl as the killer of 16-year-old Pamela Maurer in Lisle in 1976.
Though Lindahl died a violent death himself long ago, police
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