Sep 6, 2007 5:11 pm US/Central
First Court Date For Suspect In 25-Year-Old Murder
MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) ―
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DNA evidence linked Timothy Krajcir to the 1982 rape and murder of Southern Illinois University student Deborah Sheppard.
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Sheppard was murdered in 1982, shortly before she was to graduate from SIU.
A Sept. 28 preliminary hearing has been set for the 62-year-old suspect in the killing of a Southern Illinois University student from the Chicago area a quarter century ago.
Timothy Krajcir made his first court appearance this afternoon in Jackson County on four murder counts connected to the 1982 strangling death of Deborah Sheppard.
A judge assigned a public defender to Krajcir and ordered bond to remain at $1 million.
Sheppard was a 23-year-old senior from Olympia Fields majoring in marketing when her naked body was found on the floor of her Carbondale apartment.
Authorities say Krajcir also was a student at the school at the time.
When charged last week, he already was incarcerated at the Big Muddy Correctional Center outside Ina.
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