Killer Profile - Serial Killer Timothy Krajcir
Timothy W. Krajcir, 62, was arrested and charged with four counts of murder this week for the 1982 slaying of Deborah Sheppard, Jackson County court documents show.
Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Wepsiec filed a motion for an arrest warrant Tuesday and a judge granted that motion Wednesday. A press conference is slated for 2:30 p.m. today at the Carbondale Civic Center, where Carbondale Police and the state’s attorney are expected to release further details regarding the man arrested for a murder that occurred 25 years ago.
On April 8, 1982, a friend entered the South Graham Street apartment of Sheppard, a 23-year-old marketing senior from Olympia Fields, near Chicago, to find her naked body lying on her bedroom floor. At the time of Sheppard’s murder, police reported that a telephone cord in the living room was cut and a window in Sheppard’s bedroom had been removed. Police initially said there were no signs of foul play or struggle, but then attributed the murder to the person who entered her apartment that day.
There are no details at this time as to the connection between Sheppard and Krajcir.
Court documents list Krajcir’s address as the Big Muddy Correctional Center in Ina. The Illinois Department of Corrections shows that Krajcir was taken in to custody August 1979 with an offense that listed him as a “sexually dangerous person.” The Jackson County court Web site shows Krajcir does not have a prior criminal history in the county. At this time, there are no details as to when or whether Krajcir will be transferred to the Jackson County Jail in Murphysboro.
Krajcir is being charged with four counts of murder for his alleged involvement in Sheppard’s slaying. Court documents claim he “strangled Deborah Sheppard with his hands, thereby causing the death of Deborah Sheppard.” Another count states Krajcir strangled Sheppard “while committing a forcible felony rape.”
There were three copies of the counts against Krajcir in the court file, one of which was stamped in “Defendant’s Copy,” in red ink.
After Sheppard’s death, two autopsies were conducted. The first showed Sheppard died of a pulmonary edema or fluid in the lungs. The second autopsy, which took place in Chicago, revealed compressions in Sheppard’s neck and back, indicating suffocation or strangulation.
Police said there were suspects at the time of the Sheppard’s murder, although no arrests were made.
Sheppard was one of three Chicago-area women murdered in Carbondale during the early 1980s. Susan Schumake, a 21-year SIUC radio-television junior from Chicago Heights, was killed August 1981 in a grassy area near U.S. 51 and the railroad tracks. Joan Wetherall, 30, a former SIUC student from Elmhurst, was found June 1981 strangled and nude June in an isolated area of Carbondale.
Both of those murders have been solved. Two years after Wetherall’s murder, John Paul Phillips told a cellmate he killed Wetherall and two other women. He was convicted of Wetherall’s murder and sentenced to death in 1986. While on death row, he died of a heart attack in 1993.
Police initially looked to Phillips in Schumake’s case. His body was exhumed when DNA technology advanced and allowed police to compare DNA from Phillips’ femur to DNA from the murder scene. They did not match.
Nearly 25 years after Schumake’s murder, more technological advances were made and police were able to link DNA from a cigarette butt in the car of Daniel Woloson, of Michigan, to DNA from the murder scene of Schumake. Woloson was arrested in 2004, convicted in 2006 and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Timothy W. Krajcir, 62, was arrested and charged with four counts of murder this week for the 1982 slaying of Deborah Sheppard, Jackson County court documents show.
Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Wepsiec filed a motion for an arrest warrant Tuesday and a judge granted that motion Wednesday. A press conference is slated for 2:30 p.m. today at the Carbondale Civic Center, where Carbondale Police and the state’s attorney are expected to release further details regarding the man arrested for a murder that occurred 25 years ago.
On April 8, 1982, a friend entered the South Graham Street apartment of Sheppard, a 23-year-old marketing senior from Olympia Fields, near Chicago, to find her naked body lying on her bedroom floor. At the time of Sheppard’s murder, police reported that a telephone cord in the living room was cut and a window in Sheppard’s bedroom had been removed. Police initially said there were no signs of foul play or struggle, but then attributed the murder to the person who entered her apartment that day.
There are no details at this time as to the connection between Sheppard and Krajcir.
Court documents list Krajcir’s address as the Big Muddy Correctional Center in Ina. The Illinois Department of Corrections shows that Krajcir was taken in to custody August 1979 with an offense that listed him as a “sexually dangerous person.” The Jackson County court Web site shows Krajcir does not have a prior criminal history in the county. At this time, there are no details as to when or whether Krajcir will be transferred to the Jackson County Jail in Murphysboro.
Krajcir is being charged with four counts of murder for his alleged involvement in Sheppard’s slaying. Court documents claim he “strangled Deborah Sheppard with his hands, thereby causing the death of Deborah Sheppard.” Another count states Krajcir strangled Sheppard “while committing a forcible felony rape.”
There were three copies of the counts against Krajcir in the court file, one of which was stamped in “Defendant’s Copy,” in red ink.
After Sheppard’s death, two autopsies were conducted. The first showed Sheppard died of a pulmonary edema or fluid in the lungs. The second autopsy, which took place in Chicago, revealed compressions in Sheppard’s neck and back, indicating suffocation or strangulation.
Police said there were suspects at the time of the Sheppard’s murder, although no arrests were made.
Sheppard was one of three Chicago-area women murdered in Carbondale during the early 1980s. Susan Schumake, a 21-year SIUC radio-television junior from Chicago Heights, was killed August 1981 in a grassy area near U.S. 51 and the railroad tracks. Joan Wetherall, 30, a former SIUC student from Elmhurst, was found June 1981 strangled and nude June in an isolated area of Carbondale.
Both of those murders have been solved. Two years after Wetherall’s murder, John Paul Phillips told a cellmate he killed Wetherall and two other women. He was convicted of Wetherall’s murder and sentenced to death in 1986. While on death row, he died of a heart attack in 1993.
Police initially looked to Phillips in Schumake’s case. His body was exhumed when DNA technology advanced and allowed police to compare DNA from Phillips’ femur to DNA from the murder scene. They did not match.
Nearly 25 years after Schumake’s murder, more technological advances were made and police were able to link DNA from a cigarette butt in the car of Daniel Woloson, of Michigan, to DNA from the murder scene of Schumake. Woloson was arrested in 2004, convicted in 2006 and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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