The sex offender charged in a 1992 Niles, IL murder mystery cold case died at Stroger Hospital, the Cook County Sheriff's Office said.
CHICAGO -- A man charged in the 1992 Niles murder of Helen Cardwell has died, the Cook County Sheriff's Office said.Richard Sisto, 73, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital on Jan. 26. The cause of death is pending results of an autopsy.
Sisto was a registered sex offender at the time of the killing, police said. He allegedly strangled Cardwell in her Leaning Tower YMCA apartment in Niles on Nov. 8, 1992.At the time of her death, Cardwell, 35, had recently moved to the Chicago area from New Jersey, and was due to start work at Lutheran General Hospital. She was found in her room by her sister and a brother-in-law, who had come for a weekly visit, police said.
Niles police reopened the case in 2020, submitting"numerous pieces of evidence" to the Northeastern Illinois Regional Crime Laboratory in Vernon Hills. The DNA from some of the samples matched Sisto's DNA, police said.
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