IL - Dawn Niles, 15, deaf, pregnant, murdered, LaGrange Park, 17 March 1981

missacorah said:

Delighted another of these cold cases has reached a conviction.

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Albert's attorneys on Tuesday unsuccessfully argued that he was not properly advised of his Miranda rights during a six-hour March 2008 interview with a Cook County sheriff's detective, at which a Chicago police officer provided sign language interpretation.

Circuit Court Judge Joan O'Brien criticized investigators for not providing a licensed American Sign Language interpreter or providing Albert with a written copy of his Miranda rights. But she ruled statements Albert made during the interview can be introduced at trial, which could begin later this year.

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A jury has found a Sugar Grove man not guilty of murdering his pregnant, deaf girlfriend more than 30 years ago...

Dawn, 15, of LaGrange Park, was about three months pregnant when she disappeared on March 17, 1981. Her body, with 34 stab wounds, was later found by a fisherman on the bridle paths near Horsetail Lake, prosecutors said...

Two witnesses testified last week that they either saw Dawn leaving school that day in Albert's beat-up brown Chevrolet or walking toward his car... The couple, who were in Drama Club together, had been "inseparable," Augustyn testified, but after breaking up a month earlier had been constantly fighting. "Gary did not want to have anything to do with it," Augustyn testified. "He didn't want to support the baby"...

A close friend of Albert's, Robert Krueger, now 49 and living in Phoenix, testified he had seen Albert and Dawn having a physical confrontation at school sometime before she disappeared.

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