Wow...I check in on Amy Todd Fleming's case every so often to see if there has been anything new over the years. I was living in Shabbona when this murder occurred and my parents are acquainted with (not friends, just acquaintances) both her parents and her in-laws.
There is just so little written about this one. It often feels like it will just be forgotten before it is solved...and that is very, very sad.
For those of you who have interest in the story, I can tell you anecdotally what some of the issues were with the lack of any resolution on this one.
1. Lee County just is not a place where LE had much experience with murders at the time. I think that they were out of their league before they started back then.
2. There were so many folks in and out of the house the morning that she was found -- from colleagues from school who went out there to check on her -- to the EMT/VFD folks who all were through the house when they received the call.
A friend of ours is a police officer in DeKalb County and he told me that the evidence was so compromised because of all of the folks in and out that it would have been very hard for them to get much from the crime scene.
There were a few theories floated around town at the time...but I moved away, so I never heard if any of them had any bearing.
One was that there was an old BF who knew that her husband was going to be away at the stock show. (We're not talking just a few hours away...he was away overnight. In Iowa, I think, if I remember correctly...but maybe further away.)
She was also the girls' volleyball coach and there was some talk that one of the dads of one of the girls on her team was very interested in her. Not sure if I'd say obsessed, but enough that it was giving her the creeps when he was around.
I have since moved away, but Amy was well loved and both her family and her in-laws were well liked and well respected in the community. She was truly a hometown girl -- had worked in the local restaurant, went to college and came back and taught in her hometown school.
They believe that the person who did this was someone she knew based on the information they have. IIRC (and it has been a long time, so I may not) the phone lines were cut and they tried to make it 'look like' a robbery, but LE was not buying that part -- said that was supposed to throw them off -- but that they, too, believed because of the crime and because of the way that it was done that this was totally planned and someone had just waited for an opportune moment.
I remember that it was snowy that night and morning, but much like the Amy Henslee case in Michigan right now (that was what got me thinking of this one -- two Amy's who were young and sweet from small towns), so many people had been there to try to 'help out' that they totally compromised any possible evidence in the snow.
So sad...she was a lovely young woman.