Forty-nine-year-old Sandra Daniels was a mother of two and a grandmother of seven who lived with her husband George in the suburb of Elm Grove, Wisconsin. She worked at Country Inn and Suites Hotel in Brookfield.
On June 3rd, 2000, Sandra was reportedly at home. Her husband George claimed he went out for a walk, and when he returned, his wife was gone. Neighbors stated that they had seen her driving away from the residence sometime between eleven a.m. and noon. Because she had a habit of sometimes going out unexpectedly to gamble at a nearby casino, no one thought much about it. But this time, Sandra never returned.
Two weeks after her disappearance, her vehicle was found abandoned in a Chicago suburb nearly a hundred miles from her home. Of Sandra herself, there was no trace. Oddly, on June 28th, George filed for divorce from his missing wife. The couple had married in 1992; George was Sandra’s third husband.
It would be several years before anyone knew what had happened to Sandra. Then, on January 7th, 2007, a fifteen-year-old boy looking for aluminum cans in a rural area near Durand, Illinois stumbled upon a set of skeletal remains on the side of the road. Eleven days later, the remains were identified as those of Sandra Daniels.
The victim had died of blunt force trauma to the head, and authorities determined that she had likely been murdered not long after she disappeared seven years before. They also suspected that she had not been killed in her home state of Wisconsin but had probably died in Illinois where she was found.
Police pursued multiple leads in the case, but it seemed all led to dead ends. There have been no significant updates in the investigation since 2007.
Crime Immemorial 