The remains of a man found shot several times and sealed in a crate discovered in 1980 at a suburban Chicago power plant have been identified as those of a long-missing Chicago man.
Efforts to identify the man proved unsuccessful and the case was deemed a cold case by investigators after about four years. But in June 2022, the man's remains were exhumed for analysis as part of a partnership between Othram and the coroner's office to identify victims and suspects.
In February, Othram gave investigators the names of possible relatives of the man, whom they believed was Fisher. After a close relative of Fisher's provided a DNA sample it was analyzed by Othram, which informed the coroner's office on March 15 that it had confirmed that the unknown man was Fisher.Fisher's wife recently told investigators that her husband left home in mid-July 1980 to get cigarettes at a gasoline station about a block away but never returned, Piper said. Relatives said Fisher was eventually reported missing to the Chicago Police Department, he said.
"This gentleman is somebody's father, somebody's uncle, somebody's brother and it's nice to be able to give the family some kind of closure, because ... they're looking and wondering whatever happened to their loved one," Piper said. Police are now looking for Fisher's killer. Earnest said Thursday that the office is"in the very, very beginning stages of investigation" into his death."We're kind of working backward," Earnest told the Chicago Tribune.
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