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ILF940525; Chicago May 25 1994
Topic Started: Jul 27 2006, 03:41 PM (467 Views)
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http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/276ufil.html

Unidentified Black Female


Discovered on May 25, 1994 in Chicago, Illinois.
Cause of death was homicide


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 20 - 30 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'0"; 115 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Shoulder length black hair, worn in a ponytail. Medium complexion. She had 2 piercings in each ear but no jewelry. She had a 6 inch scar on her abdomen with stretch marks which indicates a possible pregnancy.
Dentals: She had 1 missing tooth and 1 tooth w a gold overlay. Dentals are available.
Clothing: She was found naked from the waist down except for 1 sock. She was wearing a pink body suit and a black bra. She wore a black ribbon in the hair.


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Case History
The victim was found in the alley at 4837 S. Champlain. An offender, who has been charged with her murder, alleged that the victim was working as a prostitute when he picked her up at 63rd & Kimbark.



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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Chicago Police Department
Connie Perusich
312-745-6052
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

NCIC Number:
N/A

Case Number:
Y-225986
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.



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Discovered on May 25, 1994 in Chicago, Illinois.
Cause of death was homicide


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 20 - 30 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'0"; 115 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Shoulder length black hair, worn in a ponytail. Medium complexion. She had 2 piercings in each ear but no jewelry. She had a 6 inch scar on her abdomen with stretch marks which indicates a possible pregnancy.
Dentals: She had 1 missing tooth and 1 tooth w a gold overlay. Dentals are available.
Clothing: She was found naked from the waist down except for 1 sock. She was wearing a pink body suit and a black bra. She wore a black ribbon in the hair.


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Case History
The victim was found in the alley at 4837 S. Champlain. An offender, who has been charged with her murder, alleged that the victim was working as a prostitute when he picked her up at 63rd & Kimbark.



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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Chicago Police Department
Connie Perusich
312-745-6052

Source: http://home.earthlink.net/~brooha/id1.html

Lauran

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DNA evidence links South Side man to murder

Herman Wang — 10/8/2002
Medill News Service

A South Side man charged with a murder originally attributed to an alleged serial killer agreed to plead guilty Tuesday after DNA evidence linked him to the crime.

Earl Mack, Jr., of the 8000 block of South Honore Street, admitted he killed a still unidentified black woman eight years ago after an argument. Cook County Circuit Judge James Schreirer sentenced Mack to 20 years in prison.

According to prosecutors, the woman, believed to be between 15 and 25 years old, was strangled on May 24, 1994 after getting into an altercation with Mack. The two had been smoking crack cocaine when Mack accused the woman of stealing $20 from him, prosecutors said.

Mack then choked the woman to death with a radio cord and dumped her body in an alley on the 4800 block of South Champlain Avenue, prosecutors said.

Authorities had previously thought the murder was committed by Gregory Clepper, who was charged in 1996 for the murders of 13 women on the South Side. Clepper had allegedly given a handwritten statement to police and prosecutors admitting he killed the woman.

However, a tip from one of Mack's relatives and DNA evidence obtained in 1999 linked Mack to the victim, and the murder case was reopened. The relative, Shaun Mack, who had been arrested in July 1999, said Earl Mack, Jr. had told him he picked up the victim, had sex with her, became angry after finding her looking through his pockets for money and strangled her, prosecutors said.

Shaun Mack also said Earl Mack, Jr. told him he put the woman's body in a blue van and left her in an alley, according to prosecutors.

A DNA sample taken from Mack in November 1999 matched semen samples taken from the woman's body, prosecutors said. Mack was then arrested on May 3, 2000 and gave a videotaped confession to police.

Mack was previously convicted in 1998 of possession of a stolen car. He was given probation and fined $250.

According to the terms of the sentence imposed by Judge Schreirer, Mack will be eligible for release after 10 years.



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Suspect in 14 killings cleared in 1

By Janan Hanna

Four years ago, Gregory Clepper--a man accused of a string of South Side murders and sex assaults--allegedly gave a hand-written statement to police and prosecutors claiming he had killed an unidentified woman and dumped her body in an alley on 47th Street.

The confession was bogus.

On Wednesday night, police arrested another man, Earl Mack Jr., in connection with the May 24, 1994, killing of the still unidentified black woman whose body was found in the alley a day later.

DNA evidence obtained in 1999 allegedly linked Mack to the victim and he allegedly gave a videotaped confession, according to police reports and a prosecutor's statement to a judge during a bond hearing Thursday.

Prosecutors said Thursday they would dismiss the murder charges against Clepper in connection with that case.

A spokesman for Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine also said that prosecutors would continue to review the other cases against Clepper before proceeding to trial on 13 other murder cases pending against him.

The arrest of Earl Mack Jr., who was sent to Cook County Jail after a judge set bond at $700,000 Thursday, marks the second time this year that a new suspect has come to light in a slaying to which an accused serial murderer allegedly confessed.

Earlier this year, prosecutors moved to vacate the conviction and death sentence of Hubert Geralds for six murders after prosecutors and police said they believed another man was responsible for one of the six cases pinned on Geralds. Prosecutors still plan to retry Geralds for the five remaining murders.

The developments in the Geralds case, and now the Clepper case, raise questions about how police obtain confessions and why an accused criminal would admit culpability for a crime he did not commit.

"This whole business of taking statements from people is fraught with real problems," said Cook County Assistant Public Defender Allan Sincox, one of Clepper's lawyers. "Just because you get somebody to sign off on a statement that a state's attorney has more likely than not composed doesn't mean it's true. People have a great deal of difficulty believing that someone would go along with it if they didn't do it, but it happens with more frequency than people realize."

Details contained in a court document filed Thursday include the revelations that police had received tips that Mack had committed a murder on May 25, 1994, the same day that Jane Doe's body was found.

The woman, who authorities believe was between 15 and 25, was found at 4937 S. Champlain Ave. The woman had been strangled.

The nine-page court document--a request for a search warrant, which was approved by a judge Wednesday--was prepared by Chicago Police Detective Brian Killacky.

It reveals that police received four anonymous phone calls between May 25 and May 26 of 1994 from individuals saying that Mack had killed a woman at his home in the 8000 block of South Honore Street and placed the woman's body in a van before driving off.

Detectives talked with Mack's father, who owns the building where his son was living, on May 27. Detectives collected evidence from Mack's home, including drywall from a busted wall; traces of blood, a mop and cigarette butts, according to Killacky's affidavit.

Detectives noted that the floor had been freshly mopped and was damp; and that Mack had filed a burglary report, possibly to cover the alleged murder.

No charges were brought, however, and the case remained unsolved until Clepper's arrest.

Police Department spokesman Pat Camden said Thursday he could not explain details of why that investigation may have stopped, or why Mack was not arrested then.

He suggested that perhaps there was not probable cause to arrest Mack at that time and said DNA testing was not as reliable then as it is today.

The Jane Doe case was closed after Clepper's arrest and alleged confession in 1996.

But the case was reopened after one of Mack's relatives was arrested in July 1999, according to the court document.

The relative, Shaun Mack, said Earl Mack Jr. told him he picked up the victim, had sex with her, became angry after she went through his pockets looking for money and strangled her.

Shaun Mack also said that Earl Mack Jr. said he put the body in a blue van and dumped her in an alley, according to the document.

Investigators found that Shaun Mack's story was consistent with the manner of death and wounds on the victim's body, as reported by the Cook County medical examiner. So they took a DNA sample from Earl Mack Jr. last November that showed that he allegedly had sex with the victim, according to the court document.

The information was given to Assistant State's Atty. William O'Brien, who authorized a broader investigation, which subsequently led to the charges against Earl Mack Jr.

Asked whether the arrest of Mack casts doubt on the prosecution's other cases against Clepper, state's attorney's spokesman Bob Benjamin said, "We're looking at all these cases."

DNA testing of Clepper and some of the women he is accused of killing show a positive match in only one case, that of Sincox, Clepper's lawyer, said.

Benjamin noted DNA evidence is hard to pin down in these cases because the victims, many of them prostitutes, had several sexual partners.

Sincox tried to get all of Clepper's alleged confessions thrown out, but in 1997, Judge James Schreier denied the request. Sincox argued that Clepper had been kept awake for nearly two days straight, and that the confessions were all too much alike to be authentic.

In the statement, Clepper said he picked up the woman for sex and offered her $15, according to a copy of the confession obtained by the Tribune.

He said he strangled her with a belt and eventually dumped her body in the alley.


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