More than 65 years of searching for a killer has ended: Chicago police say they now know who shot an 8-year-old girl walking to mass.He was part of the force.Chicago cop Thomas F.McInerney Jr.
has been identified as the man who abducted, shot and killed Gloria Kowalewicz on Nov.12, 1960.Thomas F.
McInerney Jr.joined the Chicago Police Department not long before killing Gloria Kowalewicz.
(Chicago Police Department)FORMER CHICAGO POLICE DETECTIVE LINKED BY DNA TO 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S COLD-CASE MURDER, POLICE SAYAt the time, McInerney was a recent addition to the agency, a violent crimes detective with the Chicago Police Department.He died in 2006.But evidence pointing to him as the killer lived on.
And recent improvements in technology finally brought answers.DNA TECHNOLOGY LEADS TO ARREST IN 1988 KILLING OF ORLANDO WOMAN AFTER NEARLY FOUR DECADESJust before 8 a.m.on the morning of her death, Kowalewicz began walking a few blocks from her home to St.
Mary of Mt.Carmel Church.
She never arrived.About four hours later, her body was found in a ditch in a forest preserve southwest of Chicago.Her killer left evidence scattered at the scene of the crime and along a highway back to Chicago.Investigators found a bullet, Kowalewicz’s coat, her shoes, and her little, white communion purse that held her prayer book.
But the killer was never identified.Gloria Kowalewicz was abducted and killed in Chicago on Nov.12, 1960.
(Findagrave.com)But recently, investigators pursued more clues using updated technology.Ultimately, it was a fingerprint lifted off the strap of her purse that led investigators to McInerney after more than six decades.DNA BREAKTHROUGH LEADS TO ARREST IN GRISLY 33-YEAR-OLD COLD CASE INVESTIGATORS NEVER GAVE UP ONAs part of the investigation, Chicago police formed a task force.
They knocked on hundreds of doors and interviewed more than 1,300 people in the hopes of finding the girl's killer.More than a dozen people were questioned under a polygraph.The m...