Post by Scumhunter on Mar 17, 2018 2:00:58 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: Illinois State Police website)
From the Illinois State Police website- unsolved crimes section:
Case Details: On 5/20/86, Illinois State Police (ISP) District 01 responded to an area of abandoned railroad tracks located on the south side of I-88, milepost 28.5, wherein a citizen had discovered the decomposed skeletal remains of a white female now identified as Kathleen A. Goebeler, DOB: 11-12-1956, 5'01", 105 pounds. Kathleen's maiden name is Johnson. Her last known address was Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania, which is a subrub of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kathleen was last seen between April 11th and 18th, 1986, in Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
It is known that Goebeler would hitch-hike as a means of transportation. Goebeler was known to have worked in strip clubs in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area, Atlantic City, New Jersey area and possibly the northwest West Virginia area.
Geographic information regarding the area wherein the female was found: I-88 is an east/west toll way which connects the Quad Cities with Chicago, Illinois (very rural in nature). This location was approximately 120 miles west of Chicago. At the time of death, I-88 was still Illinois Route 5, a four lane highway. The body was found approximately 45' south of the roadway across a barbed wire fence in a sparsely wooded area.
The photo included with this Unsovled Crime information is a reconstructed photo.
www.isp.state.il.us/crime/unsolveddetails.cfm?ID=27
Illinois Cold Cases blog on the case: ilcoldcases.blogspot.in/2017/05/waiting-31-years-for-justice-kathleen.html?m=1
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