In December 2012, Sergeant Richard Spurando, with the Arlington Heights Police Department,

a suburb about 25 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, was looking through the file of a case

that had gone cold, an unsolved case that had occurred in April of 1991.

59-year-old Loretta Tabeck-Botke had been found dead in her Arlington Heights home, having

been shot four times.

Although there had been a few leads, no arrests had ever been made in the case.

And so Sergeant Spurando, along with some other officers and detectives, were taking another

look at it to see if there was anything that had been missed.

Inside the file was something that might have looked a little out of place.

There was mention of a police report from the nearby Burrington Hills Police Department.

It detailed a fatal car accident that had occurred there at about 11.30 pm on September

14, 1973, almost 20 years prior to Loretta's murder.

According to the report, a man named Donnie Rudd, who was 31 at the time, had told police

that he and his wife of just a month, 19-year-old Noreen Kumata, had been driving home from her

mom's house when another driver ran them off the road.

He said Noreen was thrown from the car and had hit her head on a rock.

She was transported to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Days later, she was buried in her wedding dress.

What was interesting about this car accident was that Donnie Rudd also had a connection to

Loretta.

He had been her attorney, and she had been about to file a complaint against him when

she was murdered.

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