Cops solve 1983 Printers Row murder

‘DNA link’ cited in arresting man already in jail

02/08/2011 8:53 PM

By Ben Meyerson
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                         Joseph Walker, 59

Chicago police have arrested a man they say murdered a woman in the Printers Row neighborhood 27 years ago.

Frieda Fenster, 77, was strangled to death on December 1983 at her bookstore in the 500 block of South State Street, but no one was charged in the murder.

But a recent new look at the case’s evidence led Chicago Police detectives to a man already serving a life sentence.

The Chicago Police Department’s Cold Case Unit revisited the case recently, and used DNA evidence to charge Joseph Walker, 59, police said. They didn’t have information about what the source of the DNA was as of Monday night.

Walker was already serving a life sentence in the Pontiac, Illinois Correctional Center for another crime he committed in Utah.

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s office has charged Walker with first-degree murder in the case.


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