Virginia Johannessen, a 76-year-old widow, was found shot to death in her Aurora, Illinois, home on Felton Road on January 5, 1993. Her brother, Francis Reines, discovered her after he could not reach her by phone. She was found sitting in the living room with visible injuries and had been shot in the head; a hammer was also present at the scene and her car was later found abandoned nearby.

The investigation produced several prosecutions over the years. In 1994 three men — Michael Turner, Cory O. Jenkins, and Lester D. Salter — were charged but acquitted after a nine-day trial when the state did not prove their involvement. Lionel Lane was convicted in 1995, but that conviction was overturned in 1996 after Edward Tenney and Donald Lippert confessed to another murder while being convicted in that separate case. Edward Tenney was later convicted of Johannessen’s murder; a conviction was overturned for legal reasons, then a retrial resulted in another guilty verdict and a life sentence. Donald Lippert received a 60-year sentence.

The case was profiled on Investigation Discovery’s Dead of Winter: The Widows of War. Does anyone have memories or information about Virginia, her neighborhood on Felton Road, or the events around January 1993?