Detectives scoured the country - even going as far as Mexico - in hopes of finding a 55-gallon barrel, similar to the one that appears to be the focus of the Stacy Peterson investigation.
Investigators hoped finding the barrel, with Joan Bernal's body in it, would produce the evidence needed to secure a murder conviction against her new husband.
But 19 years to the day after her friends and family last saw the mother of three, her case remains unsolved, and Joan's mother can't help but draw a parallel to the case of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson.
Before she disappeared, Joan apparently told a relative of her husband's threat, her mother said.
"He said he could kill her and put her in a barrel and make sure nobody would find her," Florence Wilms of Downers Grove said.
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Investigators hoped finding the barrel, with Joan Bernal's body in it, would produce the evidence needed to secure a murder conviction against her new husband.
But 19 years to the day after her friends and family last saw the mother of three, her case remains unsolved, and Joan's mother can't help but draw a parallel to the case of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson.
Before she disappeared, Joan apparently told a relative of her husband's threat, her mother said.
"He said he could kill her and put her in a barrel and make sure nobody would find her," Florence Wilms of Downers Grove said.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/688270,6_1_NA09_PETERSON_S1.article#