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64 – Amber Creek

  • September 14, 2022
  • , 8:29 pm
  • , Podcast
Robert Creek forced Illinois DCFS to take custody of his 14-year-old daughter in order to save her life. She chronically ran away from the residential center where she was placed. In 1996 turned up dead in a nature reserve in Wisconsin. Law Enforcement didn’t catch her killer until 2014, and the court process quickly became complicated.

64 – Amber Creek

Robert Creek forced Illinois DCFS to take custody of his 14-year-old daughter in order to save her life. She chronically ran away from the residential center where she was placed. In 1996 turned up dead in a nature reserve in Wisconsin. Law Enforcement didn’t catch her killer until 2014, and the court process quickly became complicated.

Robert Creek forced Illinois DCFS to take custody of his 14-year-old daughter in order to save her life. She chronically ran away from the residential center where she was placed. In 1996 turned up dead in a nature reserve in Wisconsin. Law Enforcement didn’t catch her killer until 2014, and the court process quickly became complicated.

Show Credits:

Research, Writing, Editing, Audio Production, and Sound Design by Renee Lynn

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Music Credits:

MOVE Altered by Bill Conn (PodcastMusic)

Presence by Aija Alsina (Artlist)

A Common Memory by Trevor Kowalski (Epidemic Sound)

Night Walk (STEMS – Melody) by Gavin Luke (Epidemic Sound)

Broken Pieces by Gavin Luke (Epidemic Sound)

Music licensed from Artlist, Epidemic Sound, Musicbed, and/or PodcastMusic

Show Sources:

New details emerge — Search warrants: Investigators were told ‘client’ might have killed Amber Creek by The Journal Times

Evidence delay in runaway slaying by The Journal Times

Not guilty pleas in Amber Creek killing by The Journal Times

Right to counsel violated during interrogation of defendant in Amber Creek case by The Journal Times

McReynolds: `This will be our main suspect’ in Amber Creek case by The Journal Times

Plea in Amber Creek homicide by The Journal Times

Judge allows evidence of third party in Creek homicide trial by The Journal Times

Did someone else kill Amber Creek? by the Journal Times

Amber Creek case will stay in Racine County by The Journal Times

Man gets 40 years for Amber Creek homicide by The Journal Times

Illinois man gets 40 years prison for 1997 killing of teen girl found dead in wildlife area by Madison dot com

Slaying victim Amber Creek’s family speaks out by Insurance News Net

DCFS PROBES CASE OF SLAIN RUNAWAY GIRL by the Chicago Tribune

Search Warrants Reveal New Information In 1997 Murder Case by Patch dot com

After killer sentenced in 1997 cold case, dad of Palatine girl talks of despair, justice by the Chicago Tribune

The Strange Murder of Amber Creek by Bizarrepedia

Illinois Man, James Eaton, Charged In 1997 Murder Of 14-Year-Old Girl by HNGN

Amber Gail Creek by Find a Grave

Police in Arrest James Eaton in Amber Creek Cold Case: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know by Heavy dot com

Decades-Old Fingerprint Doomed Murder Suspect by NBC Chicago

Amber Creek by Wiki

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