Mar 4, 2008 4:28 pm US/Central
Man Charged In 1981 Murder Of Disabled Teen
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
A deaf man accused of murdering a disabled teenage girl 27 years ago has been arrested on a murder warrant.
Gary Albert is accused of stabbing Dawn Niles in an attack on St. Patrick's Day 1981. Fishermen found Niles' body four days later in Horsetail Slough, a fishing pond in a Cook County Forest Preserve near McCarthy Road and LaGrange Road in Palos Park.
An autopsy at the time showed the 15-year-old had been repeatedly stabbed. Niles was deaf and unable to speak.
No details of how Albert came to be arrested in the case were revealed during a brief hearing at the Bridgeview courthouse Tuesday morning.
Albert, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a gray, long-sleeve T-shirt, did not speak and followed proceedings through a sign-language interpreter.
Defense attorney Peter Fasone said he was standing in for Albert's lawyer, and asked for the case to be continued until March 25.
Speaking after the hearing, he said he knew nothing about the case.
Assistant Cook County State's attorney Bill Delaney also declined to comment.
Cook County sheriff's officers and Niles' and Albert's relatives also declined to comment.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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