Suspect in 1999 Des Plaines killing manages to elude Mexican police
23.05.12
Suspect in 1999 Des Plaines killing manages to elude Mexican police
JIUTEPEC,, Dec 22, 2011 (Chicago Tribune - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
-- For years, Des Plaines police had no idea who committed the grisly 1999 knife murder of United Airlines flight attendant Young Kavila.
The slender 30-year-old was nearly beheaded as she tried to fight off an attempted sexual assault in the kitchen of her north suburban apartment, according to law enforcement records. The killer left fingerprints and drops of his blood that police could not match.
Then in October 2007 a family of frightened immigrants told detectives of a violent, hard-drinking relative in Mexico who had boasted about the murder -- and threatened to kill any relative who gave him up.
Detective Jennifer De Pastors quickly confirmed links to the crime-scene fingerprints and DNA, and authorities filed murder charges against Luis Rodriguez-Mena, a 37-year-old factory worker who had lived near Kavila's apartment before abruptly returning to his childhood home in central Mexico, government records and interviews show.
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