For more than three decades, the murder of Randy Gail Sperino haunted investigators in southern Illinois — a cold case centered on a young woman beaten to death and left in a rural field while her killer seemingly vanished without a trace. Investigators spent decades chasing leads and revisiting evidence, but the case remained unsolved. Now, prosecutors say a breakthrough in forensic genealogy and decades-old DNA evidence finally cracked the case wide open. Madison County State’s Attorney Tom

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