A Brown's Chicken murders investigator reflected on DNA test technology that solved the cold case. The Palatine, IL shooting killed seven people.
A Brown's Chicken murders investigator reflected on DNA test technology that solved the cold case. The Palatine, IL shooting killed seven people.It happened three decades ago Sunday, and is one of the most shocking massacres in Illinois history.
It was an act of wanton disregard for human life sparking fear, pain and a purpose for police departments across the state to collaborate to catch the killers responsible. "This was to be honest with you the start of task force," Opitz said. "Most every agency belongs not to some sort of task force, so that when something like this in the future happens, you get conference from all different agencies, including, in our case, we had Chicago; we had state police; we had the FBI; we had everybody join us, eventually. It was it was pretty incredible," he said.
"Ultimately, the chicken is what saved us in terms of, you know, we had the foresight to freeze that... it took six years before we got the DNA, but it took another three years after that before we figure out whose DNA it was," Opitz said.
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