An 84-year-old man confessed to his involvement in a 50-year-old coldcase after ... family tree and solve the case. The victim, Schlais, was found dead on Feb. 15, 1974 in Spring Brook, a ...
Mary Schlais, 25, was hitchhiking to Chicago when she was stabbed to death in 1974 ... arrest “a huge victory for our agency,” explaining how decades of officers assigned to the coldcase ...