North Aurora (USA) – More than four decades after the disappearance of 19-year-old Kathy Halle, her family finally learns what really happened on March 29, 1979: The young woman was the victim of a serial killer who raped and killed at least a dozen women!
The police announced this this week, a full 45 years after the murder. That’s how long the case of the then missing young people was considered Cold Case. The files gathered dust, but the small town of North Aurora, Illinois, never forgot.
Only now could a tiny one DNA Spur provide the decisive evidence that led to the notorious woman murderer Bruce Lindahl (†28).
Killer ambushed her in front of her apartment
Bruce Lindahl (†28) is considered one of the most notorious serial killers in the USA. Kathy also fell victim to him
At the time, Kathy wanted to get her sister from a shopping center in the suburbs of Chicago (USA), but it never got there. The blonde woman with big glasses disappeared without a trace.
“We believe that on the night of Kathy’s disappearance, Lindahl managed to kidnap her in the parking lot of her apartment complex,” the prosecutor’s office said. A month later, a fisherman discovered her body in the Fox River.
Prosecutor Jamie L. Mosser announced the investigation of the Kathy Halle (†19) case at a press conference.
The river water couldn’t wash away a trace on the 19-year-old’s shirt: In August of this year, a laboratory managed to extract and compare it. Hit!
More than 70 femicides in the region
The DNA found belonged to Bruce Lindahl, the well-known Serial killers. Investigators already suspected him – the pattern of the crime suited him. Because Kathy wasn’t the first woman he killed. At least twelve more Murders and nine rapes could be proven against him.
It is unclear how many people the man with the deceptively charming smile really has on his conscience. In the late 70s and early 80s, around 70 women were killed in the region!
Numerous surviving victims later reported to the police. Lindahl’s insatiable greed ultimately became his downfall: in 1981, during a knife attack on a man whose girlfriend he apparently wanted to kidnap, he accidentally stabbed himself in the leg and bled to death. The investigators exhumed his remains for DNA comparison.
Family: “Years of pain and uncertainty”
“We thank the police from the bottom of our hearts for never giving up,” said Kathy’s relatives. “Thanks to advances in DNA technology, we are confident that other families will not have to endure the same pain and uncertainty that we endured for so many years.”