In a story a few years back, a then current spokesperson for Kenilworth PD said all evidence had been gone through and subjected to the latest testing technology offers.
The same story, for ostensibly the first time, quotes an original investigator as saying the police work inside the first 36 hours in this case was shockingly poor, unbelievable really, old days and old investigative techniques aside. It really, in itself, was criminal. At the very least people should have been canned for it, without delay.
I don't know where the rest of original investigators are. But living or dead, they should be raked over the coals, as should the press, which otherwise was all over this story, out there on the front lawn (and annoying the neighbors from what I've been told by them) but failed to get to the bottom of what was going on and what apparently many people knew (investigators from five agencies were in on it.)
Meanwhile, the SunTimes was writing baseless, if not preposterous, rubbish about it five years later and winning prizes for it. Ironically, if Charles Percy was serving in elected office from IL at that point he could take part of the blame for it, but he wasn't. He was just a citizen for another six weeks or so.
Of course, he called in the big wigs because he knew the local cops were out of their league. If it had happened at another time on another day perhaps things would have been different. But all of the first stringers at all of the agencies were off Sunday. So Percy's efforts were in vain. Whoever screwed this up had more than a full 24 hours to do it and they apparently did it completely.
The guys who work for the department now were not personally responsible for what went on then. But they really should come clean, the best that they can now, about this case. There's no one to protect anymore. The guys who screwed up the Ramsey case had to answer for it in their own time. Kenilworth PD wouldn't have to do that now. The fact that they have not answered, one way or another, to what that former Chicago investigator has said is really pathetic.