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Anthony John Spilotro (May 19, 1938 – June 14, 1986), nicknamed "The Ant", was an American mobster and enforcer for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the 1970s and 1980s. His job was to ...
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Michael Peter "Micky" Spilotro (September 12, 1944 – June 14, 1986) was the younger brother of Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and was an associate of the Chicago organized crime organization referred ...
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Atcel Olmedo (previously known as the DuPage Johnny Doe) was an American toddler who was allegedly murdered by his abusive stepfather and his mother in 2005 and disposed of in Naperville, Illinois. His ...
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Amber Gail "Aimee" Creek was an Illinois girl who was murdered in 1997. Creek had run away from a youth shelter and was subsequently murdered and left in Burlington, Wisconsin, where she remained unid ...
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The Racine County Jane Doe (informally known as Crystal Rae) is an unidentified body of a young woman discovered in 1999 in the town of Raymond, Racine County, Wisconsin, in the United States. The victim ...
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Eliška "Elsie" Paroubek (1906–1911) was a Czech American girl who was a victim of kidnapping and murder in the spring of 1911. Her disappearance and the subsequent search for her preoccupied Illinois ...
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Jaclyn Marie Dowaliby (May 17, 1981 – September 10, 1988) was an American girl who disappeared from her bedroom during the night in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The murdered child's body was found ...
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Barbara and Patricia Grimes were teenage sisters who disappeared from the Brighton Park, Chicago, Illinois area on December 28, 1956 and were found dead on January 22, 1957. Despite an official conclusion ...
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John Wise (February 24, 1808 – September 28, 1879?) was a pioneer in the field of ballooning. He made over 400 flights during his lifetime and was responsible for several innovations in balloon design ...
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Maria Elizabeth Ridulph (March 12, 1950 – c. December 1957) was an American girl who disappeared on December 3, 1957 from a street corner in her neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois when she was seven years ...
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Mary Agnes Moroney (May 9, 1928 – disappeared May 15, 1930) is a kidnapped American child. She had just turned two when she was kidnapped from her Chicago, Illinois home on May 15, 1930. Her kidnapping ...
Plaintiff in 1930s U.S. civil rights case who disappeared
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Lloyd Lionel Gaines (1911, Water Valley, Mississippi – disappeared March 19, 1939, Chicago) was the plaintiff in Gaines v. Canada (1938), one of the most important court cases in the U.S. civil rights ...
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On May 11, 2011, six-year-old American boy Timmothy James Pitzen was dropped off at school in Aurora, Illinois, by his father James Pitzen. He was picked up shortly after by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen ...
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On the evening of November 18, 1987, police went to the mobile home of Russell Keith Dardeen, 29, and his family outside Ina, Illinois, United States, after he had failed to show up for work that day ...
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William "Wee Willie" McLean (born January 27, 1904, disappeared 1938) was a Scottish-born American soccer player. A dominant player through the 1930s and a member of the U.S. national team at the 1934 ...
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Lisa Michelle Stebic, née Ruttenberg (born May 19, 1969) is an American missing person. The mother of two has been missing from her home in Plainfield, Illinois since April 30, 2007.
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Edward Pope Andrews (born 1908) and Stephania Rynak Andrews (born 1908) were a married couple who disappeared in 1970 after leaving a party in downtown Chicago. The couple and their vehicle were last seen ...
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The murder of Karyn Hearn Slover occurred on September 27, 1996 in Decatur, Illinois, when Karyn Slover, a 23-year-old mother of one, disappeared shortly after leaving her job as an advertising sales ...
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The kidnapping and murder of Yingying Zhang occurred on June 9, 2017 when Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen ...
American businessman kidnapped and murdered in 1987
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Stephen B. Small (1947–1987) was a prominent businessman in Kankakee, Illinois. In 1987, he was kidnapped and held for ransom by Danny Edwards and Nancy Rish. The conditions of his confinement caused ...