IL IL - Alma Mendez, 38, Chicago Heights, 28 Oct 2007

[poco]

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[chicoliving]

SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL -- A reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the murder of a woman last seen jogging in a forest preserve.

Alma Mendez was found murdered near South Chicago Heights in October.
Her family is contributing $5,000 to a reward fund. Another $1,000 is coming from Cook County Crimestoppers.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=5930151

 

[Kat]

Bump for Alma, and welcome to our new member a family friend of hers, loresbsp. My deepest sympathies to family and friends.

 

[loresbsp]

Thank you so much for the bump. I actually only met her once, but my cousin is good friends with her son, and both my parents knew her and her ex husband. I've heard absolutely nothing in the news about this case. I'm new here, so how would I even go about getting more info from maybe the police station? Thanks!

 

[OkieGranny]

From March 2011:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/07/cold-case-file-suburban-mom-murdered-while-jogging/

Was it random being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Detectives don’t think so. Witnesses saw someone on the path who shouldn’t have been there. Alma may have been targeted.

“A couple people saw a truck driving on the trail, and she was run over first, as far as what we know and what the detectives told us,” Lopez said. “Then they placed the body in the water.”

The sister says it’s unlikely a hit-and-run accident occurred because trucks don’t normally drive on the trail.

Listed as a cold case with the Cook County SO:

http://www.cookcountysheriff.com/sheriffs_police/coldcase/coldCaseAlmaMendez_07-150131.html

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Cold Case File: Alma Mendez​

Name:	Alma Mendez
Date of Crime:	October 30th, 2007
Gender:	Female
Race:	Hispanic
Age:	37
Location:	Sauk Trail Lake, Cook County Forest Preserve 3028 Forest Preserve Dr Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Information:	The body of Alma Mendez was discovered in the water of the Sauk Trail Lake on October 30th 2007. The victim had suffered multiple injuries and her death was ruled a homicide. The victim was an avid runner who ran in the forest preserves on a daily basis. The victim would usually run in the early morning hours but ran later in the day on October 28th, 2007, the day the family reported her missing. The victim was last seen on the path area in the forest preserve. The victim's vehicle was also located at the forest preserve.

Alma Mendez

www.cookcountysheriff.org