September 18th, 1966.

Ken Oworth, Illinois.

21-year-old Valerie Percy, the daughter of state-centritorial candidate Charles Percy,

is murdered inside her bedroom.

She is blood-ginned and stabbed to death by an unknown intruder who breaks into her family's

home, and while Valerie's stepmother catches a brief glimpse of the perpetrator, he manages

to flee the scene.

Over the years, numerous suspects would pop up on the radar, including a gang of burglars,

and a violent individual whose family lived in the same neighborhood, but no one has ever

charged with Valerie's murder.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host, Robin Warner, and today we will be traveling back over 50 years to

chronicle one of the most infamous unsolved crimes of the 1960s, the 1966 murder of Valerie

Percy.

This case was a pretty big deal at the time it happened, because Valerie was from one of

the most prominent families in the Chicago area.

At the time the murder took place, her father, Charles Percy, was in the midst of a campaign

for Illinois State Senator, and there's a good chance this tragic event helped him

garner enough sympathy votes to score an upset victory in the election.

But in spite of the victim's father becoming one of the most influential people in the

state, the crime was never solved.

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