After nearly 50 years, police have arrested and charged a man in the death of an Illinois teen whose body was found in a field stabbed multiple times.
Barry Lee Whelpley, 76, of Mounds View, Minnesota, was arrested on June 2 for the 1972 killing of Julie Ann Hanson, a 15-year-old resident of Naperville, Illinois, according to the Naperville Police Department."This horrific crime has haunted this family, this community and this department for 49 years," said Naperville Police Chief Robert Marshall.
"We were all conscious of Julie's murder looking for the killer and we had Julie's picture on our desks and investigations for all these years."At the time of the Hanson's killing, Whelpley was 27 years old and lived within one mile of Hanson's home, police said. Authorities said they could not give details on the DNA evidence leading to the arrest to avoid jeopardizing the prosecution of the case.
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