The murder of an 8-year-old Chicago girl was solved 65 years later and the murderer was actually a police officer

An 8-year-old girl in Chicago, USA, was murdered on November 12, 1960. It was announced 65 years later that the case was solved. The murderer turned out to be Detective McInerney of the Chicago Police Department (see picture). (Picture taken from Matt Thibodeau Facebook)

Gloria Kowalewicz, an 8-year-old girl from Chicago, Illinois, was walking to attend mass at a church a few blocks away on the morning of November 12, 1960. Unexpectedly, she was shot twice in the head and her body was dumped in a ditch. It has not been solved for 65 years. The Chicago Police Department finally announced on the 12th that it had solved the case. The murderer was actually fellow police detective Thomas F. McInerney Jr., but he had long since passed away.

According to "NBC" reports, Kovalevich, who is in the third grade of elementary school, was wearing a red and brown plaid dress that her mother chose for her that day. However, she did not arrive at the church and was probably taken away on the road. Later, when a member of the public was driving through the Southwest Forest Reserve in Chicago, they saw brightly colored clothes and went to check and discovered Kovalevich's body.

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The case sparked a massive manhunt in Chicago that lasted for months, during which thousands of people were questioned and police followed up on hundreds of leads, but still could not find the prisoner. It was not until July this year that, through the latest DNA technology and a well-preserved fingerprint, it was finally confirmed that the murderer was McInerney, the homicide detective of the Chicago Police Department.

It is understood that McInerney worked for the Chicago Police Department for 28 years and retired from the police in 1987. He died in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 70 in 2006. He and Kovalevich should not have known each other, but his parents lived less than 1 mile (about 1.6 kilometers) from the girl's family.

Although the case was declared solved, the police still do not know why McInerney cruelly took the little girl's life. The Chicago Police Department admitted in a statement that McInerney was not worthy of being a police officer. It is sad that he was not held accountable during his lifetime.

Kovalevich's brother, who was an infant when his sister was killed, lamented to the media that McInerney never paid the price he deserved and hoped that the murderer would get the punishment he deserved before God. McInerney's DNA has been entered into the FBI system, and authorities will investigate whether it is involved in other cases.

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