More than 44 years after two 17-year-old girls were found dead in a suburban forest preserve, Morton Grove police have sent evidence out for advanced DNA.
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Documents obtained by NBC 5 Investigates reveal new details about a decades-old unsolved murder in suburban Morton Grove – information the victims’ families.
In 1979, teenagers in Morton Grove, Illinois, often hung out by a river in a patch of woods. They would smoke pot there or just goof around, generally away from authority figures. But on Sept. 5 that year, the community was shocked when two 17-year-old girls were found shot dead there. The girls, friends Eyvonne Bender and Sue Ovington, were well-liked, and homicides were almost unheard of in .
Exactly 44 years after two teenage girls were found murdered in a forest preserve in Morton Grove – a crime that shocked and terrified the northwest suburbs.