DNA has played a key role in solving several notorious suburban murders. Here are some of the most notable.
Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade -- and a couple of strokes of luck -- for police to arrest the men behind the notorious Palatine Brown's Chicken murders, the 30th anniversary of which the Daily Herald marked earlier this week.
Amber Creek Amber Creek: Shortly after leaving a state juvenile residential center in February 1997, the body of the 14-year-old Palatine girl was found in a wildlife refuge in Wisconsin. She had been sexually assaulted and suffocated. In 2014, an Oklahoma crime laboratory doing cold-case work matched a thumbprint on the garbage bag around her head to that of 36-year-old James P. Eaton of Palatine.
Baby Hope: Relying on DNA markers, a DuPage County grand jury indicted an unknown woman in 2019 on a charge of failure to report the death or disappearance of a child in connection with the death of newborn Baby Hope. Hope was found dead in a backpack in August 2016 near Wheaton. In DuPage County alone, the sheriff's office lists 10 cold cases it has investigated, in unincorporated areas, dating back to 1966 that remain unsolved.
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