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Chicago police have identified former homicide detective Thomas F. as the killer of Gloria Kowalewicz, an 8-year-old girl abducted and murdered in 1960, according to a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
The department confirmed that advances in DNA technology and a preserved fingerprint allowed investigators to make the identification more than 65 years after the crime.
Authorities are now examining other cases that may have involved McInerney. McInerney joined the Chicago Police Department in 1959, one year before Kowalewicz was killed.
He served as a detective investigating violent crimes until his retirement from the department in 1987. The suspect died in 2006 at age 70 without facing charges for this murder.
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