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Article: Husband confesses to 1975 slaying Tip leads Cold Case Squad to re-examine his wife's murder
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 17, 2004
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The problem for a cop working a cold case is finding people.
Especially when the case is decades old.
"You start like it's a brand-new case, everything is fresh. It's
not, but you pretend like it is, like the body is still there," said
Sgt. Joe Salemme, of the Chicago Police Department's Cold Case Squad.
"You re-interview everybody, everybody who is still alive, anyway.
People have a way of dying on us -- and not just the victims."
And sometimes, even without fancy new DNA evidence, it pays off.
Richard Conner, a 71-year-old former roofer and ditch digger who
lives in a West Side retirement home, was charged Thursday with first-
degree murder in the slaying of his wife, Lillie Conner, a long ...