From the November 7th Chicago Tribune "Disappearance oat NIU in 1970 echoes today" by Angie Leventis Lourgos and Becky Schlikerman.
With the news that a suspect is in custody for the disappearance/murder of NIU freshman Antinette "Toni" Keller who disappeared just two days before Liz and I went to Northern's Homecoming, comes this story about a girl disappeared October 2, 1970, while I was a sophomore at the school. I must admit that I had no recollections of it.
But the two stories are eerily similar.
NIU senior Donna Doll, 21, was last seen alive leaving her job at the school library October 2, 1970. She never returned to her rooming house on the Lincoln Highway. A major search was held and the body was found nine days later in a corn field a little more than a mile west of campus (and right off the Lincoln Highway, Illinois Highway 38).
The Keller case may come to a close, but the Doll one remains an unsolved one, surviving in two binders and a box full of documents at the Dekalb County sheriff's office. Pathologists determined that Doll had been suffocated with a pillow or plastic bag and there was a prime suspect but too little evidence.
Then, of course, there were the five murders at NIU on Valentine's Day 2008.
Sad Stories Along the Lincoln Highway. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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2 comments:
Do you people know how many Murders there have been in DeKalb in the last few years????????
You would be shocked.......
I must admit that I don't know. How many have there been.
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