Some cases haunt a community for decades: The children taken from front yards, college students who never made it home, and women whose lives were taken without explanation. The missing and murdered.

Across northern Illinois, dozens of cases remain unsolved, leaving behind grieving families, unanswered questions, and a lingering pursuit of justice.

Here are some of the crimes that remain a mystery in Northern Illinois.

Donna Doll- Oct. 2, 1970

Donna Doll, a 21-year-old Northern Illinois University student, was last seen leaving her part-time job at Swen Parson Library on campus the evening of Oct. 2, 1970. She never made it home.

Doll was missing for more than a week before her body was discovered by three teenagers on Nelson Road west of DeKalb on Oct. 11. She had been suffocat

See Full Page