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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:54, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Dardeen family homicides

 * ... that police in Ina, Illinois, at first suspected Keith Dardeen of killing his family 30 years ago today, until they found his body, its penis severed, in a nearby field? Source: Dianne Fanning, Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells, pp. 51–52 "The missing person was Keith Dardeen, and he instantly became a suspect ... Late the next night, hunters discovered Keith's body, brutalized and abandoned, in a wheat field just over the Franklin County line."
 * ALT1:... that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to the Dardeen family homicides in Ina, Illinois 30 years ago today but was never charged? Source: "Sells offered to be escorted back to Illinois to show where he hid key evidence, but, said Duncan, 'it became clear Texas was not going to let him leave the state.' ... So the prosecutor was stymied, unwilling to pin Sells with the Ina killings based on a questionable confession and no physical evidence." Northwest Herald; April 12, 2014
 * ALT2:... that whoever killed the Dardeen family of Ina, Illinois, 30 years ago today beat a daughter born in the house during the attack to death as well? "Authorities found Elaine Dardeen with her son and her newborn baby all dead and positioned on a waterbed", Northwest Herald; April 12, 2014
 * ALT3:... that executed serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells claimed a homosexual advance enraged him enough to kill an entire family, including a newborn, 30 years ago today in Illinois? "Dardeen invited him back to Ina for a meal, but instead of dinner, he said, Dardeen made sexual advances toward him, a claim police dismiss as justification for the unjustifiable." The Southern Illinoisan], May 26, 2010
 * Reviewed: Es ist genug
 * Comment: I would like this to be run on November 17, the 30th anniversary of the crime.

Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 06:15, 14 November 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg QPQ done, new enough, in time, free of copyright problems, long enough, source checks out, hook is interesting. Would prefer if we go with ALT1 . This is good to go.  FITINDIA   07:07, 14 November 2017 (UTC)