IL Carl Galbraith,13,stabbed & throat slashed, found in New Munster ditch, 17 Dec.1977 *New initiative*

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Northwest Herald
Cold Case: Carl Galbraith, 13, murdered Dec. 17, 1977
June 11 2020
''Thirteen-year-old Carl Galbraith’s body was found near a long, residential driveway in a water-filled ditch east of 341st Avenue and Geneva Road in New Munster in December 1977.

He had last been seen alive in Richmond, Ill., the day before he was killed.

Galbraith had been stabbed multiple times and had his throat slashed, according to news reports of that time.

While persons of interest have been looked into over the decades following the murder, none have been convicted of the crime.

The list of persons of interest even includes serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who Cook County, Ill., sheriff’s deputy Sgt. Howard Anderson said in December 1978 he could place n Kenosha County “on at least one occasion during 1977, and that he may have worked there or visited on other occasions,” according to a Dec. 29, 1978, Kenosha News report.

However, nothing officially came of that investigation, and the case went cold.

The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department reopened the case in 2009. However, it has yet to be solved.

If you have any information on the case, please call the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department Detective Bureau at 262-605-5102 or give a tip anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at 800-807-8477 or 262-656-7333.''

 

[Richard]

Carl Galbraith


December 17, 2017 Article:

13 year old Carl Galbraith was living with his mother in Chicago, Illinois. His mother though had sent him and his sister to go live with their Aunt in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. On December 16, 1977 Carl withdrew $10 for Christmas presents. He was then last seen hitchhiking along Route 173 in Richmond, Illinois. He was trying to get to a friends house . It was the last time anyone saw the boy alive.

Shortly before noon the next day Carl's body was found. He was stabbed multiple times and had his throat slashed, and was then left in a water filled ditch in New Munster, Wisconsin. The ditch was at he end of a residential driveway along Highway 50, now Geneva Road.

A month later a call came in. The man on the other end described Carl's coat, and told them where to find it in English Prairie Cemetery. It is believed that this person was the perpetrator of the murder or had inside knowledge about it.

SOURCES:
Cold Case Carl Galbraith | Kenosha County, WI - Official Website
Who killed Carl Galbraith? | Northwest Herald

LINK:
Count Every Mystery: Murder of Carl Galbraith

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up. This heinous murder of a 13 year old boy remains unsolved some 48 years later.

It appears to have been a crime of opportunity committed by a violent individual. The perpetrator most likely committed other similar attacks.