Charles Huber
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first heard Jan 2025
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So he's like, just get in and I'm going to just turn the key and see if we can get it started.
For whatever reason, if it was drugs or alcohol or what was involved, after the sexual assault, Bruce kind of passes out and falls asleep. She kind of slinks out and goes running down the street naked to one of the neighbor's house. Please help me, please help me, like knocking on everybody's door.
Without a complaining witness, all charges are dropped and Bruce is let go and is free to be out on the street again.
Again, there's never been any proof that tied into that because of the time frame. From the time she disappeared to the time she was found, it was nothing but skeletal remains. So there was no DNA or anything to tie Bruce to that murder.
As they were processing that scene and then going back to Bruce's house, they found a box of photographs. And they found hundreds of photographs of young women in vulnerable positions. Most of them were naked. Some of them were clearly drugged. A lot of them were clearly getting these photos taken against their will. It was pretty disturbing photographs.
So Lyle PD, they do a direct comparison from Bruce's body to get DNA and they find a direct match to their murder weapon in the Pam Maurer case.
Once they do that, they send out a critical reach, which is a bulletin that goes out to all local law enforcement and basically says, hey, anybody that has any cold case homicides from the 1970s, this is the guy that we just discovered that may be a serial killer that was in the area abducting young girls and using different means of strangulation.
When we received that, our detectives at the time kind of were like, hey, wait a minute, let's look at Kathy again. So we left with the detectives from Lyle and started looking back into our case.
The main place where he would go to get photos developed in the 1970s was at the Northgate shopping plaza. So he was at Northgate on a regular basis, which is where Kathy was employed at the time of her homicide. So that was one of the things that kind of started putting pieces together for us on our end.
They're doing the old, I say old-fashioned now, it's still the main way of doing DNA collection, but they take the swab and they roll it across the article of evidence and then they test that DNA that's collected on the swab and then compare it to whatever DNA they can find on there.
They, again, test Kathy's evidence. They compare it directly to Bruce Lindahl's DNA that they have at that time. But unfortunately, our samples at that point are too degraded to get a workable profile.
So at that point, the case, you know, for lack of a better term, it doesn't go cold, but it's kind of we're back right where we started of, well, we at least know there's a male there. But, you know, was it the boyfriend or was it the guy who killed her? You know, we don't have any idea who it could be at that point. So it's just kind of we're back at square one.
The family sees the documentary and they're like, hey, what the heck? Why are they saying that Bruce Lindahl killed our daughter or our sister? And we're like, we have zero evidence to prove that.
One of the instructors there was Orland Park Deputy Chief Larry Rafferty, and his block of information that he presents in the class is all about Mvac technology, which is this new DNA technology that allows degraded and minuscule samples to kind of get the best possible profile based off of these filters that this Mvac uses.
So the smallest particle... of skin or whatever is being vacuumed up with that solution and collected in these filters. The filters are then tested and they were able to build better profiles off of degraded DNA because you're getting every last scrap of it pulled out of the evidence.
This is one of the leading labs in the nation and the world, and this is their specialty, is working on these cold cases and using the NVEC to solve these types of cases. And that's how I got hooked up with DNA Labs.
For us to find a workable profile is going to be tough because of those situations. Kathy, from all we can tell, sat in running water in the Fox River for three weeks. You know, so at that point, we're like, any DNA or anything's going to be washed away, or so we thought.
Yeah, this is our Hail Mary. Who knows what is going to be down the road 10 years from now, but this was, for our time and space right now, this was our shot to try to close this case.
And we came up with a plan that was like, let's start with the underwear, the tampon string and the main areas that we want to focus on. Let's test those first. And that got our price down to about, I believe, around $9,000.
Season of Justice is a nonprofit organization that basically provides grants for laboratories to do DNA research on these cold cases.
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