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Brenda Sue Black was found April 1981 in a ditch near Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 30 in New Lenox. Donald Rozek was found November 1974 in McClintock Acres in Channahon. Marie R. O’Brien was found May 1997 in a Rockdale landfill where debris from the Rust Craft building in Joliet was moved to. Webster Fisher was found July 1980 in a sealed wooden crate at the Lockport Lock. All four were .
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) 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, authorities said. The Will County Coroner's Office announced Wednesday that Othram Inc., a Texas-based company that specializes in forensic DNA sequencing, identified the remains as Webster Fisher. The Chicago man would have been 29 when his decomposing body was found on July 30, 1980, in a wooden crate at the Lockport Locks power plant in Will County, said Joe Piper, a deputy coroner and cold case investigator with the Will County Coroner's Office. The crate, which was nailed shut with a hole drilled into it, was among debris removed from a grate that prevents objects from flowing from a canal into the plant. An autopsy showed the man had been shot several times and his body had been in the water for about two weeks, the coroner's office said. Efforts to identify the man
A body found in a crate at the Lockport Lock in 1980 has been ID'd as Webster Fisher by DNA evidence, the Will County coroner’s office said Wednesday.