AURORA, Ill. Police say DNA evidence has led them to charge a 46-year-old Aurora man with the 1981 strangling death of a woman, the Kane County Chronicle reports.
Larry J. Galloway, of the 700 block of Meadowsedge Lane, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of Cheryl Lynn Hall. Police said they arrested Galloway on Thursday night at Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago, where he works as a train conductor. He was being held on $3 million bail Friday at the Kane County jail.
(Galloway is a member of Local 577, Northlake, Ill.)
The evening of Sept. 9, 1981, Hall, who was 20, was found, partially clothed and hanging by her neck from a door knob in a second-floor bedroom, by her husband. She had been strangled with a cord from a clothes iron. She had not been sexually assaulted, police said.
Police said the murder had been exhaustively investigated by numerous detectives, but it was not until police matched Galloways DNA to original evidence found at the scene that prosecutors authorized charges.
Hall was home the day she was killed because she had the day off from work at an Aurora bank that has since closed. Around 2 p.m. that day, her husband stopped by their apartment on Shamrock Court so they could have lunch, police said.
Neighbors reported hearing noises from the apartment after Halls husband left, but no one was alarmed enough to call police.
(This item appeared Aug. 5, 2008, in the Kane County Chronicle.)
