Prosecutors say a 58-year-old convict has been charged with murder and kidnapping in the 1991 killing of a 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl.
More than two years ago, five men reached a $40 million settlement with Illinois State Police after they were cleared of all charges in the death of Dixmoor teenager Cateresa Matthews. The men, known as the “Dixmoor Five,” spent a decade or more in prison before DNA evidence pointed to Willie Randolph, not them, in the girl’s killing.
Randolph is already serving a three-year sentence for drug possession in an Illinois state prison. He is a convicted sex offender, reports CBS Chicago.
Matthews was kidnapped at a bus stop in 1991, reports CBS Chicago. Her body was found in a field three weeks later. She had been raped, shot in the mouth, and left for dead.