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.
- POLICE & FIRE
- 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…
Friday, May 6, 2011
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Click on the video to see what's happened in Patch sites around you this week: Chicago FBI Hunt Des Plaines Man. Morton Grove Police Call for Tips on Double Homicide Case. Rapoport's Former Home Damaged, Sister Arrested for DUI. Former Hackney's Employee Accused of Embezzling $186K, Pleads Not Guilty. VIDEO: Students Thank Local Police and Firefighters. 'Home Alone' House For Sale.
C.J.
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 ›