Busy weekend...Wanted to relay some research hints I got at the library Friday. My local library originally got a PROQUEST subscription at the request of a customer. It is a couple of hundred dollars per year, which is high for an individual but not a major expenditure for even a small town library. My librarian said she was blown away by the advantages over microfilm. For the subscription price, you get access to the Washington Post, NY and LA Times, Atlanta Constitution, and Chicago Trib from their inception to about 1990. But the awesome feature is that you are not dependent on old fashioned hit or miss manual indexes to find articles. Rather, the PROQUEST search function digitally searches every word ever printed in the paper(s) you select. For example, my search on "DeWitt" and "Dolton" took .0376 seconds to read 146 years of the Trib and list the 3 articles on her case. Then it's just a click of the mouse to read a clean .pdf of each article.
It could be that your local library would agree to such a request---it's way cheaper than the initial costs of these papers on microfilm. PROQUEST has a website at http://www.proquest.com that might help convince them.
I wanted to say also that the loose ends you noted had me recheck the Christine DeWitt articles to make sure I'd summarized them accurately. The details I noted (Black-over-white car with no plates, 3 men, South Holland olice pursuit north into Southside Chicago) are what was printed in the Trib.
Another loose end is that LE apparently tied her death to the Forest Preserve and asked the rangers to search for her clothes. But, if she had been killed in the Preserve, why would her body have ended up at Exchange and Memorial, which at least sounds like a more conspicuous spot?
It could be that your local library would agree to such a request---it's way cheaper than the initial costs of these papers on microfilm. PROQUEST has a website at http://www.proquest.com that might help convince them.
I wanted to say also that the loose ends you noted had me recheck the Christine DeWitt articles to make sure I'd summarized them accurately. The details I noted (Black-over-white car with no plates, 3 men, South Holland olice pursuit north into Southside Chicago) are what was printed in the Trib.
Another loose end is that LE apparently tied her death to the Forest Preserve and asked the rangers to search for her clothes. But, if she had been killed in the Preserve, why would her body have ended up at Exchange and Memorial, which at least sounds like a more conspicuous spot?