(CREDIT: ChicagoTribune.com)

By now you’ve probably heard the extraordinary story of how police were able solve a 44-year-old cold case this week when Lisle police and the DuPage State’s Attorney’s Office announced that Bruce Lindahl was the suspected serial killer responsible for the death of 16-year-old Pamela Maurer of Woodridge.

Now, authorities — including the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office — are asking for your help in solving other crimes Lindahl might have committed.

“Bruce Lindahl lived in Aurora,” the State’s Attorney’s Office said via Facebook. “He was charged for abducting and sexually assaulting Debra Colliander in Aurora in 1980. She disappeared before the case went to trial and a judge dismissed the charges. She was later found dead in Oswego Township.”

Lindahl died in 1981, shortly before he was found atop 18-year-old Charles Huber, whom he had stabbed to death near the sliding glass door of a Naperville apartment on Ogden Avenue, according to the Daily Herald.

Police say Lindahl accidentally fatally stabbed himself in the attack, so there was no one to charge at that time.

DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced Monday that police used investigative genetic genealogy to identify the murderer as Lindahl.

The suspected serial killer strangled Maurer in 1976 and likely killed another woman just days before she was to testify in court that he raped her, police said Monday.

Lindahl’s body was exhumed in November, giving police the DNA evidence necessary to tie him to Maurer’s death.

Anyone with information about unsolved crimes that may involve Lindahl are asked to call 630-407-8107 or 630-271-4252.

Read More

• Chicago Tribune: Pamela Maurer cold case — Officials ID killer of teen girl in 1976
• Newser: Police Say DNA Has Identified Suspected Illinois Serial Killer
• ABC News: Possible serial killer was behind teen’s 1976 rape, murder
• Daily Mail: DNA from exhumed body of suspected serial killer solves murder case
• Daily Herald: Naperville police chief recalls finding killer’s body
• NBC5 Chicago: Man Behind 1976 Murder of Chicago-Area Teen Believed to Be Serial Killer

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