Did A Serial Killer Brutalize and Murder the Dardeen Family?

The True Crime Times
12 min readJan 18, 2021
(L to R) Elaine Dardeen, Peter Dardeen, and Keith Dardeen — Source: Wikipedia

When something dark and sinister occurs in a small town, the news media always says the same thing: “Things like this don’t happen here.” But isn’t a small town the perfect place for darkness to hide?

In the 1980s, the village of Ina, Ilinois, was a sleepy small town where the crime rate was increasing. Murders were not unheard of, but the massacre of an entire…

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