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The Dardeen Family:
On November 17, 1987, a family of 4 was brutally killed in Ina, Illinois. Ina had a history of violence making many residents including the Dardeen family feel unsafe to the point they had decided to move away. Keith the father of the family had been talking to his friend and mother about the murders in the town the weekend before his own death. On November 17th, Keith failed to show up for his night shift and failure to contact his family, the authorities decided to go check up on the family. When they arrived at their trailer, the authorities noticed the car was missing and decided to go inside. What they found was inhumane to look at. Police found the bodies of Elaine, the wife, Peter, the son, and Casey, the daughter, brutally mutilated and beaten to death. All 3 of them were tucked into bed with all their belongings still in place, and Keith was nowhere to be found. Suspecting Keith to be the murderer, a manhunt was started to find him. A day later, some hunters found Keith's body in a wheat field in a similar condition to his family's, mutilated and shot 3 times in the face. For years no suspects were ever found, nor reasoning for the murders. Until Tommy Lynn Sells admitted to the murders of the family, when he was convicted for another murder, However, there had seemed to be no connection between him and the family, yet he knew everything about the case. Not fully sure if he was the murderer, the case was still closed on his name as the authorities were convinced enough to say Tommy killed the Dardeen family.
This case brings chills to me because nothing in the case is normal. A family about to sell the trailer for the reason of an increase in violence ends up dying for that exact reason of violence. Tommy, a random man to them, killed the whole family in such a brutal way, with no plausible reason. The whole case in itself does not make sense, as to why the family would be killed by a random man who can not fully be proven to be the murder. The Dardeen family rests in peace while the mystery of their murder still is present. As many theories go on like Keith was a drug dealer, the family was pleasing the Devil, and others like they didn't want the family to leave all do not show actual motives that would line up with the story. It is scary that such a loved family will now remain a mystery to everyone they have known.
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