一名8岁芝加哥女童的冷案谋杀案困扰调查人员长达65年，如今终于告破——而与该杀人案有关的男子竟是该市警局的一名凶杀案侦探。
The cold case murder of an 8-year-old Chicago girl that bedeviled investigators for 65 years has been solved — and the man tied to the killing was a homicide detective for the city’s police department.
格洛丽亚·科瓦莱维奇于1960年11月12日在芝加哥南区前往教堂途中被绑架，其遇害案引发了一场持续数月的全城大搜捕，期间数千人接受讯问，数百条线索被排查。
The murder of Gloria Kowalewicz, who was abducted Nov. 12, 1960, as she was walking to church on the South Side of Chicago, sparked a citywide manhunt that went on for months, during which thousands of people were questioned and hundreds of leads were looked into.
然而直到7月，一种格洛丽亚遇害时尚不存在的DNA技术，结合“一枚妥善保存的指纹”，才将调查人员引向小托马斯·F·麦克因尼，芝加哥警方在给NBC新闻的声明中表示。
But it wasn’t until July that a DNA technology that didn’t exist when Gloria was killed, combined with “a carefully preserved fingerprint,” led investigators to Thomas F. McInerney Jr., the Chicago Police Department said in a statement to NBC News.
这项技术正是用于抓捕约瑟夫·詹姆斯·迪安杰洛的同一技术，这名前加州警察被称作“金州杀手”，他在1970年代中期至1980年代中期犯下13起谋杀案和多起强奸案，目前正在服无期徒刑。但与迪安杰洛不同，麦克因尼设法逃脱了制裁。
It was the same technology that was used to capture Joseph James DeAngelo, a former California cop dubbed “The Golden State Killer,” who committed 13 murders and numerous rapes from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s and is serving life in prison. But unlike DeAngelo, McInerney managed to escape justice.
麦克因尼于1987年以侦探身份从芝加哥警局退休，任职28年，于2006年在拉斯维加斯去世，享年70岁。
McInerney retired from the Chicago Police Department in 1987 as a detective after 28 years on the job and died in 2006 at age 70 in Las Vegas.
“麦克因尼本不该佩戴芝加哥警局徽章，令人痛心的是，他在世时从未被识别并绳之以法，”芝加哥警方在周一的声明中说。
“McInerney should never have worn the CPD star, and it is devastating to accept that he was never identified and held accountable while he was alive,” the CPD said in a statement Monday.
格洛丽亚的弟弟亚当·科瓦莱维奇——姐姐遇害时他还是个婴儿——表示赞同。
Gloria’s brother, Adam Kowalewicz — who was an infant when his sister was killed — agreed.
“我脑海中挥之不去的一件事是，遗憾的是，他过着体面的生活并安然离世，”科瓦莱维奇在接受《芝加哥论坛报》采访时谈到麦克因尼时说。“他从未偿还罪债。你只能希望他在上苍面前偿还罪债。”
“The one thing that does play in my mind [is], unfortunately, he lived a decent life and passed on,” Kowalewicz said of McInerney in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. “He never paid his dues. You hope he’s going to pay his dues with the good lord.”
还有一个挥之不去的问题，迄今警方无法回答：麦克因尼为何以格洛丽亚为目标？
Then there is the nagging question that, so far, police haven’t been able to answer: Why did McInerney target Gloria?
警方称，麦克因尼的父母住在距离科瓦莱维奇一家不到一英里的地方，但麦克因尼似乎与这名小女孩没有任何先前接触。
McInerney’s parents lived less than a mile from the Kowalewicz family, but McInerney doesn’t appear to have had any previous contact with the little girl, police said.
话虽如此，麦克纳尼的DNA已进入联邦调查局的组合DNA指数系统（即CODIS），该机构正在核实是否可能还有其他受害者。“根据科瓦莱维奇案的证据，以及执法部门对儿童性侵犯者的画像和受害者学研究，我们正在追查每一条可能带来其他潜在未解案件线索的调查方向，这些案件发生在那段时间我们辖区内的事件中，”联邦调查局在一份声明中表示。
That having been said, McInerney’s DNA is in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, known as CODIS, and the agency is checking whether there might be any other victims. “Based on the evidence in the Kowalewicz case, and law enforcement’s profiling of child predators and their victimology, we are pursuing every investigative lead that may bring closure on other potential unsolved crimes that occurred during that time period in our area,” the FBI said in a statement.
格洛丽亚生命最后一天是周六，她在早上8点刚过不久离开家，步行几个街区前往圣母山卡梅尔教堂参加早弥撒，警方称。格洛丽亚是一名三年级学生，刚刚领了第一次圣体圣事，她身穿母亲为她挑选的粉棕格子连衣裙和蓝色紧身衣，据《论坛报》报道。“她从未到达弥撒现场，”警方在声明中表示。“那天早上，格洛丽亚在从家到教堂的某个地方被绑架。”
On the last day of her life, a Saturday, Gloria left home just before 8 a.m. to walk to morning Mass a few blocks away at St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church, police said. Gloria, a third grader who just recently had her First Communion, was dressed in a pink-and-brown checkered dress and a blue leotard that her mother had picked out for her, the Tribune reported. “She never made it to mass,” the police said in a statement. “Somewhere between her home and the church that Saturday morning, Gloria was abducted.”
警方称，格洛丽亚头部中两枪致死，尸体被遗弃在芝加哥西南部一个森林保护区的沟渠里。她的尸体被一名司机发现，该司机注意到她鲜艳的连衣裙后前去查看。“证据被收集、仔细清点并妥善保存 — — 包括一颗子弹、格洛丽亚的外套、她的鞋子、以及装有她祈祷书的白色圣体钱包，”警方表示。“调查人员还从她钱包的带子上提取了一个指纹。”
Gloria was fatally shot twice in the head and left in a ditch in a forest preserve southwest of Chicago, police said. Her body was found by a motorist who spotted Gloria’s colorful dress and went to investigate. “Evidence was collected and carefully inventoried and preserved — a bullet, Gloria’s coat, her shoes, her white communion purse containing her prayer book,” police said. “Investigators also lifted a fingerprint from the strap of Gloria’s purse.”
但警方未能将此案与任何嫌疑人联系起来。格洛丽亚遇害四天后，超过1000人在圣母山卡梅尔教堂参加了她的葬礼。当时，麦克纳尼是一名24岁的巡逻警官，驻扎在芝加哥西区，直至1964年才升任侦探。目前尚不清楚麦克纳尼是否曾参与格洛丽亚谋杀案的调查。离开芝加哥警察局并搬到内华达州后，他曾在联邦公共辩护人办公室担任调查员。
But police couldn’t pin the crime on anyone. Four days after Gloria was killed, more than 1,000 people attended her funeral at St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church. McInerney, at the time, was a 24-year-old patrol officer based on Chicago’s west side and wasn’t promoted to detective until 1964. It wasn’t immediately clear whether McInerney was ever involved in Gloria’s murder investigation. After he left the CPD and moved to Nevada, he worked for the Federal Public Defender’s Office as an investigator.
根据《论坛报》的讣告，麦克纳尼于2004年退休。他甚至在2003年被评为杰出联邦辩护调查员。讣告还指出，麦克纳尼是一名陆军退伍军人，也是五个孩子的父亲和一位祖父。与此同时，侦探们继续处理格洛丽亚的案件，尽管证据一直存放在仓库中。警方表示：“即使案件似乎被时间冻结，芝加哥警察局从未忘记这个小女孩，也从未停止寻找她的凶手。”
McInerney retired from that job in 2004, according to his obituary in the Tribune. He was even named Outstanding Federal Defender Investigator in 2003. McInerney, an Army veteran, was also a father of five and a grandfather, his obituary noted. Meanwhile, detectives continued to work Gloria’s case as the evidence sat in storage. “Even as the case seemed frozen in time, the Chicago Police Department never forgot the little girl and never stopped searching for her killer,” police said.
警方称，该案的第一个重要突破出现在2010年，当时调查人员能够从格洛丽亚衣物上发现的精液痕迹中提取出潜在凶手的男性DNA谱型。但这并未导致任何逮捕。随后，在2024年，应芝加哥警察局的请求，FBI将衣物上的DNA与提交给家谱研究网站的其他基因样本进行比对，并从精液样本中识别出了麦克纳尼。警方表示，凭借这一名字，他们将麦克纳尼在1959年申请加入芝加哥警察局时留下的指纹，与格洛丽亚手提包带上发现的指纹进行了比对。
The first tantalizing break in the case, police said, came in 2010, when investigators were able to build a male DNA profile of the potential killer from traces of semen found on Gloria’s clothes. But that didn’t yield any arrests. Then, in 2024, at the request of Chicago police, the FBI compared the DNA on the clothing with other genetic samples submitted to family tree research websites and identified McInerney from the semen samples. Armed with a name, they matched McInerney’s fingerprints from his 1959 CPD job application to the fingerprint found on Gloria’s purse strap, police said.
“指纹和DNA是在犯罪现场留下的，通过这两项证据完成了身份确认，”芝加哥警察局在一份声明中表示。
“Identification was made through a fingerprint and DNA left behind at the crime scene,” the CPD said in a statement.