Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Analysts offer several viewpoints on how the former U.S. senator would fare in the current GOP.
Amid the tributes and reflections that have popped up in the days following the death of Charles Percy, the question that has been asked–but can never really be answered–is how would Percy do in today’s political climate? It is interesting to ask, but impossible to know for sure. With his death at age 91 less than two weeks ago, the noted Illinois politician and businessman, who had struggled with Alzheimer’s disease for several years, came into the public spotlight again. Earlier: Read Patch's coverage of the 45-year anniversary of Valerie Percy's unsolved murder. The Kenilworth native, whose parents moved from Florida to the Chicago area in the 1920s, served in the U.S. Senate for three six-year terms. His political career ended in …
Friday, September 23, 2011
In part two of Patch's Valerie Percy series, we hear from frustrated investigators and how history weighs on the case.
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- Glenn Wall
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Friday, September 23, 2011
The following is the second-part of Patch's investigative look at the unsolved murder of Valerie Percy, Kenilworth's first homicide case. Read part one here. Valerie was bludgeoned to death in her bed in 1966, five weeks before her father, Charles Percy, was elected Senator for Illinois. Former investigators claim that a combination of interference from Percy’s political aides, missed opportunities to gather evidence and a police force inexperienced in murders are to blame for the lack of an arrest. Patch spoke with former detectives as well as the current investigator on the murder to shed light on the cold case. Missed Suspects Former Illinois State Police Detective Robert Lamb, 78, and his colleagues joined the Percy case eight days …
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Former CPD Detective tells Patch “[I] hope they tell the whole story some time.”
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Glenn Wall
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Sept. 18 marked the 45th anniversary of Valerie Percy’s murder, a crime that transfixed the nation and remains one of the Chicago area’s most notorious cold cases. The brutality of the murder in normally sleepy Kenilworth as well as the prominence of Valerie’s politician father captivated the media and community. Valerie Percy, 21, was stabbed and beaten to death in bed at her family’s lakefront home in 1966. Minutes later, her father, then GOP Senate nominee Chuck Percy, phoned Chicago police. Charles Percy died Sept. 17. As the country marked his death, people from the area who were involved in the murder investigation are discussing memories surrounding his daughter’s unsolved murder. The murder took place five weeks before election day…
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Patch takes a look at an unsolved slaying that shook the North Shore community.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Glenn Wall
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Sunday marked the 45th anniversary Kenilworth's first homicide. After nearly five decades, the slaying of Valerie Percy, the daughter of prominent politician Charles Percy, remains unsolved. Valerie, who was 21-years-old at the time, was beaten and stabbed to death in her bed during her father Charles' first run for Senate in 1966. Earlier: New Light Shed on Kenilworth's First Homicide This Sept. 18 marked a particularly poignant anniversary of the cold case with the passing Charles, 91, on Saturday. And while Charles rose to become a Republican leader nationally, Valerie's death continues to resonate along the North Shore. Police continue to follow leads and investigate the homicide. In light of the unsolved murder, Patch will run a …
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The former senator who grew up in the North Shore died Saturday in Washington D.C.
Former Kenilworth resident and Republican Illinois Senator, Charles Percy passed away Saturday morning at the age of 91, The Chicago Sun-Times reports. Earlier: New Light Shed on Kenilworth's First Homicide Percy, a New Trier High School and University of Chicago alum, died in Washington D.C. He had battled Alzheimer's disease for the past several years, according to the Sun-Times. Read the full Chicago Sun-Times' story. Stay tuned to Patch for a series examining the 45th anniversary of Valerie Percy's murder.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The doctor who was called to Valerie Percy's side when she was murdered kept a hidden account of the killing.
A Kenilworth woman has come forward with her husband's account of the infamous 1966 Valerie Percy murder, The Chicago Tribune reports. The slaying was the village's first homicide. Nydia Hohf, who still lives in the same home that was two doors down from the Percy's, released what the Trib calls "a detailed account of a notorious North Shore murder scene," written by her husband, Robert Hohf, three days after the killing. Robert, who died in 1993, had been the first doctor to examine Valerie. The doctor was called in the middle of the night by Valerie's father, then-Senate candidate Charles percy, and escorted to the residence by Kenilworth Police. Read the full story for Robert's account and find out why the doctor was never questioned by…
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8:58 pm on Saturday, March 9, 2013
My mother and I called voters for Percy's unsuccessful campaign for Illinois' govenor in 1964, and we were both involved in getting out voters in downstate Illinois in his 1966 senate race. I left for my sophomore year in college in early September, and I will never my shock when I read the headlines of the Chicago Tribune in the college library (a few days after the fact) that Valerie Percy had … more ›