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21 March 09
Virginia Davis still remembers the details of that afternoon nearly 40 years ago.
She was just 4 then, snuggling on the sofa with her 9-year-old sister, Donna, the girls engrossed in their favorite book.
Their mother had told Donna to run to the bakery for bread, but Virginia kept pleading for her to stay.
"I remember my mom saying she had to go before it gets dark," Davis said. "She must have told her four times."
"I just kept asking her to read one more."
Donna read one last page, then headed from their house near N. 33rd and W. Lloyd streets to Grebe's Bakery a few blocks away.
She would never return.
Donna Willing was found less than two hours later, face down beneath a car in a garage on N. 51st St. Her body was scraped and bruised and bloodied. She'd been raped and strangled. It was Feb. 26, 1970.
In the days and weeks that followed, police and FBI agents fanned out across the city. Leads poured in, and more than 1,000 people were interviewed, from family members to neighbors to strangers on the street.
Detectives actively worked the case for more than a decade.
much, much more at link
21 March 09
Virginia Davis still remembers the details of that afternoon nearly 40 years ago.
She was just 4 then, snuggling on the sofa with her 9-year-old sister, Donna, the girls engrossed in their favorite book.
Their mother had told Donna to run to the bakery for bread, but Virginia kept pleading for her to stay.
"I remember my mom saying she had to go before it gets dark," Davis said. "She must have told her four times."
"I just kept asking her to read one more."
Donna read one last page, then headed from their house near N. 33rd and W. Lloyd streets to Grebe's Bakery a few blocks away.
She would never return.
Donna Willing was found less than two hours later, face down beneath a car in a garage on N. 51st St. Her body was scraped and bruised and bloodied. She'd been raped and strangled. It was Feb. 26, 1970.
In the days and weeks that followed, police and FBI agents fanned out across the city. Leads poured in, and more than 1,000 people were interviewed, from family members to neighbors to strangers on the street.
Detectives actively worked the case for more than a decade.
much, much more at link
