A skull found in the wall of an Illinois home in the 1970s was identified this week as that of a Civil War-era teenage girl — whose corpse was likely snatched by grave robbers long ago ...

DNA testing has revealed that a skull found decades ago in the wall of an Illinois house belonged to an 18-year-old woman who died just after the American Civil War. Officials in Kane County told ...

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago ...

A skull found in the wall of an Illinois home is that of a teenage girl who died from childbirth complications in 1866, officials announced in a news conference following a public fundraiser to ...