![]() (Chicago Tribune, 10-19-71)Ī follow up Tribune article on Oct. The article also related that the police had called back three youths for questioning who had been found to have lied about seeing Fredian that night.Īnother piece told of how one youth told police that he was to have met Alan and gone with him to the “hole,” but that Fredian never met him. Fredian’s clothing was intact, and police at the time speculated that they might have been burned by the assailant trying to eliminate blood evidence. One article noted that the police investigation included finding partially-burned clothing in nearby Waiola Park. Rumors usually centered on one of two possibilities: a drug deal gone bad, or a falling-out between former friends and teammates on the LT swim team that led to an insult made by Fredian earlier the day of the murder.Īlthough Rettger was tried as an adult, the La Grange Police and the Office of the Cook County State’s Attorney have denied Fakhreldin’s Freedom of Information requests for any materials relating to the investigation and trial, citing the Juvenile Crime Act of 1987, which effectively seals records for minors, even those tried as adults.Īnd with so many of the people involved dead or long gone from the La Grange area, the story of the investigation and lead up to the trial and the controversy surrounding the investigation can be pieced together from Fakhreldin’s archive, most articles coming from the La Grange Citizen, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, and the Lions Township High School Lion, the LT school newspaper. Some thought the state’s attorney botched what should have been an open-and-shut conviction but others maintain that the prosecution was an attempted railroading of an innocent Rettger, pursued for political reasons.Ī motive for the killing was always unclear. Rettger, described in some media accounts as a friend of Fredian, was charged with the murder almost two years later, but acquitted in a decision that outraged many. ![]() the 15-year-old sophomore was said to be on his way to meet friends He was found by a search party that included Tom Fouts, a La Grange resident known to radio fans as Captain Stubby, a nationally-popular musician and syndicated radio personality.Ī classmate, Karl J. Fredian was last seen by a neighbor on the block where he lived with his parents at 721 S. ![]()
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