IL Dzaneta Pasanbegovic 22, and sister Amela 20, missing from Hanover Park, Illinois Jul 95

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Dzaneta Pasanbegovic

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Dzaneta, circa 1995; Paul Runge

• Missing Since07/11/1995
• Missing FromHanover Park, Illinois
• ClassificationEndangered Missing
• Age22 years old
• Height and Weight5'7, 135 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA gold band-type ring, hoop earrings and a necklace with a round medallion.
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Black hair, blue eyes. Dzaneta has a scar on her back. Her nickname is Janet.

Details of Disappearance
Dzaneta and her sister Amela were last seen in Hanover Park, Illinois on July 11, 1995. They were never heard from again.

The sisters were refugees from the conflict in Bosnia and had gone to the United States to live with their uncle six months before they went missing. They found work at a factory in Streamwood, Illinois and got an apartment, but then they were laid off. Paul Frederick Runge offered them a job cleaning his house in Glendale, Illinois.

Runge, who has a record for violent crimes dating back to his teens, confessed to Dzaneta and Amela's murders and five others in 2001, after DNA evidence indicated he was involved. A photo of him is posted with this case summary.

He stated Dzaneta tried to run out of the house and he grabbed her and slammed her head into a concrete slab, carried her back inside and put her in a bathtub full of water and left the room; by the time he returned, she had drowned.

He handcuffed Amela to a bench, sexually assaulted her and strangled her. Afterwards Runge dismembered the women's bodies in his bathtub, put the pieces in plastic bags and disposed of them in garbage bins.

Runge was convicted of murdering two women and an eleven-year-old girl and was sentenced to death, but in 2010, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after the death penalty in Illinois was abolished.

Afterwards, the prosecution dropped the pending cases against him, including the murder charges in Dzaneta and Amela's disappearances, because he cannot get a more severe sentence than life in prison, and his convictions already ensure he will never be released.

Dzaneta and Amela's bodies have never been found, but foul play is suspected in their cases due to the circumstances involved.

 

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Neither sister has ever been found

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Dzaneta Pasanbegovic < Cook County Sheriff's Office

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Amela Pasanbegovic < Cook County Sheriff's Office

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updated Aug 22, 2021

For sisters’ family, some closure in Runge case

Twelve years after two Bosnian sisters disappeared from their Hanover Park apartment and six years after an accused serial killer allegedly said he murdered and dismembered them, their parents in B…

www.chicagotribune.com

<<A DuPage County judge has ordered that the documents be issued for Amela Pasanbegovic, 20, and her sister, Dzeneta, 22, based on a videotaped confession in 2001 by Paul Runge, even though the women’s remains never were found. The sisters’ parents had requested the death certificates, which have no legal bearing on the pending murder case, officials said.>>

<<Runge, now on Death Row for killing a Chicago woman and her 10-year-old daughter, told investigators that he beat, bound, raped and cut up the women after luring them to his Glendale Heights home with the promise of housecleaning jobs.

Runge said he put their body parts into pillowcases and garbage bags that he later tossed into trash bins along North Avenue, according to court documents. Their slayings were two of the seven that Runge was accused of committing in seven years.

The sisters came to America in January 1995 to escape the ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo. Their father, Mensur, an engineer, cashed his nest egg to send them here, said Michael Wolfe, chief of the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office’s criminal division.

Like many other refugees, they made their escape through a half-mile tunnel leading from the besieged city to a neutral zone established by the United Nations.

“The two got smuggled out in hopes of a better life, and then they encounter this vicious killer,” Wolfe said.>>

 

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Photos of Amela Pasanbegovic - Find a Grave...

Amela Pasanbegovic, 20, and her sister Dzeneta, 22, were refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina, sharing a home in Hanover Park IL. They disappeared about July 11, 1995, and were reported missing on July 24, 1995. The sisters had only lived in the United States about 6 months when they disappeared...

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Dzeneta “Janet” Pasanbegovic (1973-1995) - Find a...

Dzeneta Janet Pasanbegovic, 22, and her sister Amela, 20, were refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina, sharing a home in Hanover Park IL. They disappeared about July 11, 1995, and were reported missing on July 24, 1995. The sisters had only lived in the United States about 6 months when they...

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Here is an older article, quite disturbing- updated Jan 8, 2011

FBI takes blame for mishap in killer case

Chicago Tribune CHICAGO -- The Chicago FBI acknowledges a lapse in failing to alert Illinois officials that its investigators found a knife in the home of a suspected serial killer -- notificatio…

www.recordnet.com

 

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