IL IL - Daisy Hayes, 65, Chicago, 2 May 2018 *arrest* *Not Guilty*

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Family of woman believed murdered blasts judge after not-guilty verdict

 

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Daisy Hayes’ daughter Teresa Smith held up a colorful image of her late mother at the annual We Walk For Her march Thursday evening, calling out elected officials and the Chicago Police Department for not helping when her mom disappeared in 2018.

Hayes, 65, went missing in May 2018 from a Chicago Housing Authority senior citizen apartment where she lived. Hayes’ former boyfriend, Jimmy Jackson, then 72, was captured on surveillance video leaving the building with a suitcase and dragging it through the lobby to a dumpster outside. The next day, a garbage truck emptied the dumpster and transported the contents to a landfill in Indiana.

Yet a body was never recovered because officials told Hayes’ family that it would be too costly to retrieve and that a body wasn’t needed for prosecutors to pursue charges. Then in 2022, Jackson was acquitted in the death of Hayes after Cook County Judge Diana Kenwothy noted a lack of evidence.

“I had nowhere to go, no one to run to,” Smith said to the crowd gathered at 35th Street and Martin Luther King Drive. “I went to police stations, churches, everywhere. … No one would help me. I went to the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization when I was on fumes and they helped me when they started We Walk For Her.”

We Walk For Her march continues to call out city’s inaction over missing Black girls and women: ‘No one would help me’

Ald. Jeanette Taylor said that for seven years, this march and the young girls who lead it, have been asking for a task force for missing women.

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