DNA links suspected serial killer to 19-year-old’s cold case murder in Illinois

NORTH AURORA, Ill. ( WGN ) — Authorities have linked a suspected serial killer to the kidnapping and murder of a 19-year-old Illinois woman, more than 45 years after her death.

The DNA of Bruce Lindahl, who is believed to have killed as many as a dozen women and girls, was confirmed to be on the clothes Kathy Halle was wearing the night she was murdered, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

Halle vanished on March 29, 1979, after leaving her North Aurora apartment complex. Weeks later, a boy spotted her body while fishing along the Fox River, about 40 miles west of Chicago…

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