Skulls Found In South Side Warehouse Were Placed There Decades Ago By Business Owner's Son
(CBS) -- Now there's an answer to the question of how human skulls came to be placed in a South Side warehouse where they were discovered Monday and unrelated to that, a more interesting story, as WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
The answer is: They were placed there about 60 years ago by the son of the owner of the business, a business which supplied anatomical specimens to students and researchers.
The son was a young boy then. He is in his 70s now. WBBM spoke to him last night.
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He asked that we not air the family's dirty laundry, so we're not using his name.
But in 1969, he testified against his father in a murder trial. His father was accused of killing a 17-year-old girl described by some of the press as a "go-go dancer," then burying her body in a shallow grave on the family farm.
The jury ended up acquitting the father of murder, but convicting him of conspiracy to obstruct justice by hiding the body.
The father had tried to pin it all on the son. But he passed a lie detector test.
That caused a rift in the family for more than 20 years, the son told us.
But he said, "God said forgive, and I did."
