'I am incredibly relieved for Sheryl’s family and thankful that they do not have to go through another trial. They deserve this justice,' Piatt County State’s Attorney Dana Rhoades said after Gregory J. Houser's appeal was rejected.
Thirty years later, the search is still on for Theresa Wallace. 'There’s been times where you see somebody from the back and you think, ‘Maybe?’” says Angie Risley, who was 2 when her older sister went missing.
Police and family remain frustrated some 16 years after the 84-year-old Champaign woman was killed in her home.
'If we found out that she was alive that would be fantastic. But if it turns around the other way, it would give us closure, knowing one way or another, that she is gone.'
'He did not deserve to die cold and alone in a field.”
To this day, former Champaign County Sheriff Dan Walsh is haunted by the night he responded to a call about a dying woman on an Urbana porch.
Police know what weapon was used to kill the 66-year-old Champaign man. Still, 'it's a frustrating case.'
In the 34 years since Robert Vaughn Wagner's murder near Sidney, investigators have chased down numerous leads and run into dead-ends.
The challenge is twofold: Identify the victim, then find who killed her.
Affable 35-year-old was shot to death three days after his 35th birthday in his Urbana apartment. It's a case that still haunts family and detectives as they continue to chase leads.
Police still are looking for the armed suspect who knocked off the same bank three months apart.
Who killed the former Champaign Central basketball standout and father of two? Police ”and a grieving family” need your help.
Saturday marked the 17th anniversary of the Champaign woman's death. 'We just hold onto the good times and just pray that something comes up and this guy gets caught.'
It's been more than a decade since the 32-year-old friends were shot inside a home in rural Chrisman. To this day, police remain baffled.
Police continue to wait for witnesses to step foward. So does Mom: 'My son needs justice. And with no one talking, he’s not getting any.'
The 53-year-old was shot to death in a residential neighborhood about a block north of Spalding Park in Champaign on Aug. 3, 2017. But despite mounds of evidence, an arrest has not been made.
Her death remains a mystery — and still haunts family and investigators — all these years later.
