{
  "id": 14173025,
  "title": "Ex-Chicago detective identified as killing child in 65-year cold case",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/ex-chicago-detective-identified-as-killing-child-in-65-year-cold-case",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-13T09:30:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/chicago-police-detective-child-killer-cold-case"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Police used recently discovered DNA to pin murder of eight-year-old girl on Thomas McInerney, who died in 2006 Chicago police on Monday said they recently used newly discovered DNA evidence to tie the 1960 murder of an eight-year-old girl to one of its own former homicide detectives. Thomas McInerney had been dead for 20 years by the time authorities issued a statement identifying him as the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}