While there was reason for celebration in South Elgin this week as a father was reunited with his daughter six years after her abduction, the occasion also serves as a reminder that many suburban families are still waiting for answers on what happened to loved ones who've vanished.
"Kayla Unbehaun Found Safe!" the home page of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children declared this week, announcing that the South Elgin girl who went missing six years ago had been found.
Urlacher left Illinois, but later that year he penned a 33-page letter in which he wrote,"I put that girl in the ground. ... Now I am going to go to jail for murder." Smrekar was convicted of killing another man and his pregnant wife a year later in downstate Lincoln, where he and Mansfield attended college. The man was scheduled to testify against Smrekar in a separate theft case.
Blood matching hers was found on a neighbor's trash can, but police have made no arrests and Kianna's whereabouts remain unknown. Two days later, police in Sauk County, Wisconsin, found the Buffalo Grove teen's car parked along Highway 33, a few hundred yards from the Baraboo River. Several personal items -- a favorite yarmulke, a book, a backpack and letters to his family among them -- were found in the river or on its banks.
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