The man found dead in a sealed wooden crate at the Lockport Lock in 1980 has been identified as Webster Fisher by DNA evidence, the Will County Coroner’s Office announced Wednesday.
A man found dead in a sealed wooden crate at the Lockport Lock in 1980 has been identified as Webster Fisher by DNA evidence, the Will County Coroner’s Office announced Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
The man found dead decades ago is Webster Fisher, the office of Will County Coroner Laurie Summers wrote in a news release Wednesday.In 1980, the crate containing Fisher’s body had been pulled from a grate preventing debris from flowing into the Lockport Locks power plant. The four-foot-long crate had been nailed shut with a 1.5 inch hole drilled into it, with the long unidentified man sealed inside, Summers’s office said.
An autopsy indicated that the victim had been shot several times and he had likely been in the water a couple of weeks, the release said. In 2008, former Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil sent samples of the dead man’s hair to a Texas lab in hopes that genetic information would turn up a match as part of an effort to solve cold cases, but the long shot effort turned up nothing.
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