Bar slaying case closed: 1981 DOUBLE-MURDER | Baby-sitter tipped authorities decades after informant

 

July 21, 2009
 
BY CAROL MARIN AND DON MOSELEY Staff Reporters
 

The McHenry County sheriff’s office has concluded that a now-dead mob hit man named Larry Neumann, in all likelihood, killed two people in 1981 in the small town of Lakemoor — a long-cold case that was reopened last summer on the basis of a tip from Holly Hager, who baby-sat for the children of one of the pair back then…

 

What convinced her this was no coincidence was the 2007 autobiography of Frank Cullotta, a mob burglar and hitman-turned-government informant. In it, he wrote about Neumann killing two people in 1981 at a McHenry County bar.

Click here to read the whole story of how Huntington Press’ biography of Tony "the Ant" Spilotro’s Las Vegas enforcer Frank Cullotta helped to solve a decades-old double-murder.

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