The cold case murder of an 8-year-old Chicago girl that bedeviled investigators for 65 years has been solved — and the man tied to the killing was a homicide detective for the city’s police department.
\n\nThe murder of Gloria Kowalewicz, who was abducted on Nov. 12, 1960, as she was walking to church on the South Side of Chicago, sparked a citywide manhunt that went on for months during which thousands of people were questioned and hundreds of leads were looked into.
\n\nBut it wasn’t until July that a DNA technology that didn’t exist when Gloria was killed, combined with “a carefully preserved fingerprint,” led investigators to Thomas F. McInerney Jr., the Chicago Police Department said in a statement to NBC News.
\n\nIt was the same technology that was used to capture Joseph James DeAngelo, a former California cop dubbed “The Golden State Killer” who committed 13 murders and numerous rapes from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s and is now serving life in prison
\n\nBut unlike DeAngelo, McInerney managed to escape justice.
\n\nMcInerney retired from Chicago Police Department in 1987 as a detective after 28 years on the job and died in 2006 at the age of 70 in Las Vegas.
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