Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Officials do not suspect foul play in the death of the 52-year-old.
The human remains found in northwest Kane County are indeed those of a 52-year-old woman reported missing earlier this year, police announced Monday afternoon. Kane County sheriff’s detectives were able to positively identify the remains as those of Kathey Wilk, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release. “The cause of death is undetermined; however investigators do not suspect that foul play was involved in her death,” the release said. Wilk, a village of Hampshire resident, was reported missing by her brother. Hampshire Police located a note inside her residence when she was initially reported missing. Police found skeletal remains and clothing during a Nov. 23 search conducted as part of the missing person case. The discovery was …
Monday, November 26, 2012
The body could be this missing woman, officials said. Here are more details.
At about 7:50 a.m. Nov. 23, Kane County sheriff’s deputies were contacted by Hampshire Police about skeletal remains and clothing they found in a heavily wooded area behind 1811 Cameron Drive in Hampshire. The property behind the house is outside the village limits. Hampshire police were in that area doing a follow up search in relation to a missing person case they began investigating on May 7. In that case, Kathey Wilk, 52, of 1721 Cameron Drive, was reported missing by her brother. Hampshire Police have been actively working the missing person case and were checking the area after the weather turned and the heavy dense brush died off. Kane County sheriff’s detectives have now begun a death investigation regarding the remains that …
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The remains were discovered on Sunday, Sept. 23, according to police.
At about 4:47 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, officers from the West Chicago Police Department were notified by two individuals who were scavenging in the area of the 100 block of W. Washington Street in West Chicago that they found what appeared to be human remains. The individuals took officers back to the location where additional bones were found. The DuPage County Coroners Office confirmed that the skull and bones were human in nature and classified them as “historical." During the course of the investigation it was learned that the bones were accidentally excavated from an Aurora-area cemetery and inadvertently deposited in West Chicago. The DuPage County Coroners Office in cooperation with the West Chicago Police Department are …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
State police say they are investigating after human remains were found near the Stevenson Expressway Tuesday in Hodgkins.
Updated at 3 p.m. It's not geographically close to Geneva, but it's news Genevans might find interesting, especially if you travel on I-55. State police are investigating today (Wednesday, April 11) a case involving human remains found near the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and La Grange Road by a telecommunications technician at about 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday. A spokesman for the department said the technician found skeletal remains on the south side of the expressway in Hodgkins in a grassy area that runs along I-55 behind a fence near La Grange Road. "They are human [remains], but that's all I can tell you," said Tony Brucci, a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. "We don't know the sex yet." According to Brucci, an …
L W Sagan
9:58 am on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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