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Cold Case Solved: DNA Identifies Bruce Lindahl

Another cold case has been solved by DNA, linking the murder of Kathy Halle in 1979 in North Aurora to serial killer Bruce Lindahl.

This is the second cold case linked to Lindahl in the past few years. Lisle police used Lindahl's DNA in 2019 to solve the 1976 murder of Pamela Maurer.

I wrote a number of newspaper articles in The Aurora Beacon-News from 1980 to 1982 exposing Lindahl as a serial rapist and serial killer. He had been raping and killing women for almost 10 years but never had been exposed because he left no one alive to talk. My

articles caused him to lose his job and his friends and he flipped out.

He finally killed himself accidentally while stabbing another person to death.

When Lisle police opened the Maurer cold case in 2019, they came across my articles in the office of the Kendall County coroner. That put them on to Lindahl. After we talked, they decided to exhume Lindahl's body to get DNA. That solved the Maurer case, and today the Halle case. My articles in 1981 mentioned the Maurer and Halle cases among the unsolved murders of young women.


My book on this serial killer "Murder in the Fox Valley" was written in 2022, as a result of a TV documentary being filmed.

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