Morgan Absher

And Bill, he showed this to his editors pretty quickly after he realized, hey, this is not a prank.

This is from the killer.

And they turned the letter and envelope over to the police.

Unfortunately, police weren't able to recover any DNA or fingerprints from this letter.

They did quickly learn, though, what Ithral Dom was.

Again, we all know now.

And this made a lot of sense to police, as nearly all of the victims did show signs of being bound before their death.

Investigators also followed up on that map, and on May 25, 2002, it became clear that whoever had sent this letter and map was, in fact, the real killer.

When searching the area near the X, they found another body.

She was a Black woman who had been killed months earlier and was unidentifiable due to decomposition.

Her cause of death, again, couldn't be determined.

But now that police knew that this was indeed their killer, they keep going back to the fact that this letter referred to this victim as number 17.

Maybe 10 if we're counting Mary.

So we're at like nine potentially.

So the fact that there's that many women, that many victims potentially missing.

I mean, they're they're in a tailspin.

Yeah.

Like either he's bragging about more murders than he'd actually committed or again, like there's more people out there to be found.

In the meantime, the Illinois State Police have an idea about how they could catch this person, though.

So as we just talked about, like the killer did crop that URL after printing the map from the website.