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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Ex-Chicago detective identified as killing child in 65-year cold case

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A statement from Chicago police says the news will hopefully bring ‘a measure of closure to all who knew Gloria and her story’. Photograph: Matt Gush/Alamy

Chicago police on Monday said they recently used newly discovered DNA evidence to tie the 1960 murder of an eight-year-old girl to one of its own former homicide detectives.

Thomas McInerney had been dead for 20 years by the time authorities issued a statement identifying him as the killer of Gloria Kowalewicz – well after retiring from the Chicago police department (CPD) and two federal public defender’s offices in Nevada where he worked as an investigator.

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