Murder Victim
Karen was a nurses aide at Good News Mission Half Way House in Oak Park. She was brutally murdered. Her murderer has never been caught.
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Karen Ann Phillips, 24, murdered 3 October 1980 Oak Park, IL
Karen Ann Phillips, age 24, was a nursing student at the Good News Mission in Oak Park, Illinois. On 3 October 1980, she was found murdered.
Steven Linscott, age 26, was a Psych major and supervisor at the Mission. He sometimes had premonitions or visions and came forward to police investigators offering to assist. He told them of a dream he had, in which he saw a blond man beating a woman to death.
Police were very interested and questioned him at length. Although there were a number of discrepancies between Linscott's dream and their actual case, investigators arrested him and he was charged with Karen's murder.
No evidence was presented in court that Linscott even knew Karen Ann Phillips. The sole evidence presented was the story of his dream.
A jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Linscott appealed. A court threw out his conviction and another re-instated it. Appeals continued. In 1992, after 12 years in prison, a new trial was ordered.
A week before his retrial was to begin, a new DNA test ruled him out conclusively, and he was set free.
Karen Ann's murder remains unsolved.
Karen was a nurses aide at Good News Mission Half Way House in Oak Park. She was brutally murdered. Her murderer has never been caught.
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Karen Ann Phillips, 24, murdered 3 October 1980 Oak Park, IL
Karen Ann Phillips, age 24, was a nursing student at the Good News Mission in Oak Park, Illinois. On 3 October 1980, she was found murdered.
Steven Linscott, age 26, was a Psych major and supervisor at the Mission. He sometimes had premonitions or visions and came forward to police investigators offering to assist. He told them of a dream he had, in which he saw a blond man beating a woman to death.
Police were very interested and questioned him at length. Although there were a number of discrepancies between Linscott's dream and their actual case, investigators arrested him and he was charged with Karen's murder.
No evidence was presented in court that Linscott even knew Karen Ann Phillips. The sole evidence presented was the story of his dream.
A jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Linscott appealed. A court threw out his conviction and another re-instated it. Appeals continued. In 1992, after 12 years in prison, a new trial was ordered.
A week before his retrial was to begin, a new DNA test ruled him out conclusively, and he was set free.
Karen Ann's murder remains unsolved.
Murder Victim
Karen was a nurses aide at Good News Mission Half Way House in Oak Park. She was brutally murdered. Her murderer has never been caught.
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Karen Ann Phillips, 24, murdered 3 October 1980 Oak Park, IL
Karen Ann Phillips, age 24, was a nursing student at the Good News Mission in Oak Park, Illinois. On 3 October 1980, she was found murdered.
Steven Linscott, age 26, was a Psych major and supervisor at the Mission. He sometimes had premonitions or visions and came forward to police investigators offering to assist. He told them of a dream he had, in which he saw a blond man beating a woman to death.
Police were very interested and questioned him at length. Although there were a number of discrepancies between Linscott's dream and their actual case, investigators arrested him and he was charged with Karen's murder.
No evidence was presented in court that Linscott even knew Karen Ann Phillips. The sole evidence presented was the story of his dream.
A jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Linscott appealed. A court threw out his conviction and another re-instated it. Appeals continued. In 1992, after 12 years in prison, a new trial was ordered.
A week before his retrial was to begin, a new DNA test ruled him out conclusively, and he was set free.
Karen Ann's murder remains unsolved.
Karen was a nurses aide at Good News Mission Half Way House in Oak Park. She was brutally murdered. Her murderer has never been caught.
---------------------------------------------------
Karen Ann Phillips, 24, murdered 3 October 1980 Oak Park, IL
Karen Ann Phillips, age 24, was a nursing student at the Good News Mission in Oak Park, Illinois. On 3 October 1980, she was found murdered.
Steven Linscott, age 26, was a Psych major and supervisor at the Mission. He sometimes had premonitions or visions and came forward to police investigators offering to assist. He told them of a dream he had, in which he saw a blond man beating a woman to death.
Police were very interested and questioned him at length. Although there were a number of discrepancies between Linscott's dream and their actual case, investigators arrested him and he was charged with Karen's murder.
No evidence was presented in court that Linscott even knew Karen Ann Phillips. The sole evidence presented was the story of his dream.
A jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Linscott appealed. A court threw out his conviction and another re-instated it. Appeals continued. In 1992, after 12 years in prison, a new trial was ordered.
A week before his retrial was to begin, a new DNA test ruled him out conclusively, and he was set free.
Karen Ann's murder remains unsolved.
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