Unsolved Quadruple Homicide: The Dardeen Family
Last Seen Alive
Studio 222
4.2 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When an Illinois couple and their young children are murdered in an act of profound violence, investigators struggle to find anyone who might’ve wanted to harm the well-liked family. A decades-long investigation explores multiple possibilities, including the involvement of serial killers, in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
If you know anything about the murders of Keith, Elaine, Peter and Casey Dardeen, please contact the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office at 618-244-8004.
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| 0:00.0 | When an Illinois couple and their young children are murdered in an act of profound violence, |
| 0:05.5 | investigators struggle to find anyone who might have wanted to harm the well-liked family. |
| 0:11.1 | A decades-long investigation explores multiple possibilities, |
| 0:14.5 | including the involvement of serial killers in this episode of Last Seen Alive. |
| 0:37.0 | Music. killers in this episode of Last Seen Alive. Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night. |
| 0:45.7 | And as always, it's me, Scott. |
| 0:48.1 | The Dardine family was last seen alive on November 17, 1987. |
| 0:53.8 | The family of three, soon to be four, lived in the small town of Aina, Illinois, which you may |
| 1:00.1 | remember from our last episode, the one we did on the unsolved murder of Susan Lund. |
| 1:05.3 | Susan's partial remains were found in Aina on the outskirts of a state park seemingly |
| 1:09.7 | tossed from a moving vehicle. |
| 1:12.1 | So does this case have anything to do with Susan's, or is it just coincidence? |
| 1:19.1 | It's just a coincidence. Other than the location, there's nothing that these cases have in common. |
| 1:25.3 | Well, that's not true, but they're not related to |
| 1:27.5 | each other. I said that because in each case, a pregnant woman is murdered. And so yes, they have |
| 1:32.4 | something in common, but there's no evidence to suggest that they're related. So to the best of my |
| 1:37.3 | knowledge, the location is just a coincidence. Susan's murder and the Dardine family murders |
| 1:42.6 | aren't related. On that note, this small town in |
| 1:46.2 | Southern Illinois saw a fair amount of violence in the late 80s and early 90s for its size, which |
| 1:51.9 | may help when it comes to explaining the coincidence. And this is another one of those really |
| 1:56.9 | unfortunate stories, a story that haunted the residents and law enforcement officers of this |
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