Hunt for Tinley Park gunman continues, while researchers probe century-old mystery
Today, the search for two mass murderers continues—one at least a century older than the other.
The Tribune reports that in Indiana, researchers have exhumed the body of the most nefarious female serial killer of all time—Belle Gunness, the “Lady Bluebeard” who many believe killed at least 25 to 30 people. Several of her victims were Norwegian bachelors, lured to her home with promises of romance.
She was believed to have died in 1908, after setting her farmhouse on fire, but now, researchers have started to wonder if Gunness faked her own death. DNA tests on her exhumed body will reveal the truth.
Back in Illinois, the search continues for the Tinley Park killer. The Tribune reports that seven electronic billboards showing the sketch of the gunman have gone up near East Hazel Crest, Crestwood, Hodgkins, Maywood, Northlake and Addison. Another will go up in Palatine soon.
Somehow we always seem to be at least two steps behind destruction. All that’s left to do, it seems, is pick at bones and flash our messages into the night. Do we ever stop destruction–evil–in its tracks? Or do near misses just not make the news?