A Breeze Dies in Chicago
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» gardawg - Lisa J murdered
this is from the Chicago Tribune.WOMAN STRANGLED, AN AUTOPSY SHOWS
By Rick Hepp and Eric Ferkenhoff
Tribune staff reporters
April 20, 2001
A body that washed up on a North Side beach in Chicago this week has been identified as a 22-year-old North Side woman who was strangled, the Cook County medical examiner's office said Thursday.
Police said it appeared that Lisa Juntunen, who grew up in Naperville, had been in the lake for a matter of weeks before her body was found Tuesday a few blocks south of Fullerton Drive at the lakefront. She had been reported missing about five weeks ago.
An autopsy showed Juntunen had been strangled and the Cook County medical examiner's office ruled the death a homicide. Family members said Thursday it was their understanding that Juntunen had been murdered. But some detectives cautioned it was too early to say definitively that her death was a homicide, noting she could have suffered trauma to her neck after jumping or falling into the lake.
Juntunen was reported missing by her boyfriend on March 13, the day after he last heard from her. The next day, on March 14, police said the boyfriend reported finding Juntunen's wallet and coat on some rocks near Belmont Avenue and the lakeshore.
After she was reported missing, the boyfriend, who refused Thursday to discuss the case, and a friend created a Web site with her picture and description, asking anyone with information to call police.
There was no sign of her until this week, when a man who was taking pictures along the lakefront discovered the body.
"She was a real good person," said her father, Mel Juntunen of Naperville. He said his daughter grew up in Chicago's suburbs. She won a scholarship and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied English in hopes of becoming a journalist or an author, he said. At the time she disappeared, Juntunen was taking a semester off from school and was working as an office manager for a property development company.Juntunen was planning to return to school in the fall, her father said.
Mel Juntunen said his daughter would have turned 23 on April 5, but he noted her birthday came more than two weeks after she disappeared.
Join us at WDS Block in drafting a poem to her honor.
Thank you.
Gary
-- posted by gardawg
» BuckyRea - Re: Sad news.
Whenever things like this make the news, it always reminds me of a line that Meg Greenfield wrote after John Lennon's murder. "Damn it, it's the promise that's gone."As artists we might have the consolation that we leave our work behind when we go. The tragedy is when it all, art and artist, ceases to be a work in progress.
Thank you for letting us know about the passing of another fellow traveler, Gary. The world is poorer for her loss, but richer for you letting us know of her life.
-- posted by BuckyRea
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