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After 34 years, police name person of interest in Tammy Zywicki’s death · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: After thirty four years, police named person of interest in
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  Speaker 1: Tammy Zuwiki's death. Written by Marrabeth Wilson, this article is
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  Speaker 1: Thirty four years after Tammy Jozaiwiki disappeared on Interstate eighty
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  Speaker 1: near LaSalle, Illinois, the Illinois State Police announced Saturday that
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  Speaker 1: a new person of interest has emerged in her murder investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Teresa Terry Bolenski, who would have been thirty two years
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  Speaker 1: old when Zaiwiki was killed in nineteen ninety two, is
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  Speaker 1: not a suspect, but may have had a connection to
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  Speaker 1: an unknown truck driver authorities believe was involved in the crime.
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  Speaker 1: According to the news release, Bilenski, who died in twenty
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  Speaker 1: fourteen at age fifty four, was known to hitchhike and
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  Speaker 1: may have been traveling with the suspect at some point
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  Speaker 1: before Ziwiki's death. Authorities said special agents are looking for
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  Speaker 1: in about Bolenski from the late nineteen eighties through the
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  Speaker 1: mid nineteen nineties. ISP said in a statement Bilenski had
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  Speaker 1: ties to cities in California, including Oceanside, Vista, Pomona, San Bernardino,
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  Speaker 1: and Fontana. Zuwicki who grew up in South Carolina, was
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  Speaker 1: killed August twenty third, nineteen ninety two, after dropping off
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  Speaker 1: her brother in Evanstone and heading to Grinnell, Iowa for college.
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  Speaker 1: Nine days later, her body was found along Interstate forty
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  Speaker 1: four in rural Lawrence County, Missouri, between Springfield and Joplin.
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  Speaker 1: She had been stabbed to death two years ago. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: said they had recovered DNA that was previously considered unstable
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  Speaker 1: and were pursuing leads based on usable samples obtained from
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  Speaker 1: that evidence. Dean Ziwiki, Tammy's older brother, said the family
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  Speaker 1: was encouraged by the renewed activity on the case, though
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  Speaker 1: they were not given advanced notice of the announcement. It
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  Speaker 1: is very encouraging to see that there is still activity
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  Speaker 1: on this case, he said. Dean also said he was
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  Speaker 1: unaware if there was a connection between the DNA and Bolenski.
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  Speaker 1: ISP did not respond to comment by the time of publication.
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  Speaker 1: Police said a tractor trailer and its driver were spotted
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  Speaker 1: near Zuwiki's car between three ten and four pm on
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  Speaker 1: August twenty three. The driver was described as a white
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  Speaker 1: man between thirty five and forty years old, more than
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  Speaker 1: six feet tall. With dark, bushy hair. Some of Zuiki's
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  Speaker 1: personal belongings were never recovered, including a cannon thirty five
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  Speaker 1: million camera, and a Loris brand wristwatch with a green
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  Speaker 1: umbrella on its face and a green band that played
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  Speaker 1: rain drops keep falling on My Head. The case has
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  Speaker 1: drawn attention from cold case investigators and true crime podcasters
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  Speaker 1: over the years. In twenty fifteen, the Philadelphia based Vidok Society,
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  Speaker 1: which provides pro bono assistance to law enforcement on cold
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  Speaker 1: case homicides, began examining the investigation. Anyone with information about
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  Speaker 1: Bolenski's travels in the late nineteen eighties and i early
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties or about the investigation can contact Illinois State
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  Speaker 1: Police through its investigtvetips page or call one eight hundred call. FBI.
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  Speaker 1: Callers can remain anonymous. The FBI is offering a reward
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  Speaker 1: of up to fifty thousand dollars for information leading to
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  Speaker 1: the identification of those responsible for the crime.