DNA links serial killer to 45-year-old cold case in Illinois

24 Oct 2024, 08:11 by Darryl Coote · UPI

Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Forty-five years after 17-year-old Kathy Halle was killed in the Illinois village of North Aurora, police have finally identified her murderer as serial killer Bruce Lindahl.

Lindahl is suspected of having raped and killed a dozen women and teenage girls in the state during the 1970s and 1980s. The North Aurora Police Department on Wednesday announced that DNA evidence found on Halle's clothing was a match for Lindahl, who killed himself in 1981 while committing a murder in Naperville.