Pink Ribbons on Every Lawn The Unsolved Death of Lilly Bova

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories · Oct 19, 2026 · 11m

Pink Ribbons on Every Lawn: The Unsolved Death of Lilly Bova

Pink ribbons started showing up all over Glenview, Illinois, and every one of them was for a 16-year-old sophomore named Lilly Bova. Lilly was learning to drive and making plans to spend the whole summer at the pool with her best friend. On the last Saturday of spring break, her family says she let a boy she knew into the apartment while her older sister was home. What her sister heard that morning, and what Lilly’s mom found under a bed on Mother’s Day, set off a fight between the sheriff’s detectives and the prosecutors who decide…