Judith Betteley, 24, from Stoke-on-Trent, England, was beaten to death while walking in Grant Park, Chicago, on September 5, 1972. The attack occurred near the park’s bandshell during Labor Day weekend and was described as vicious; she died of blunt-force injuries.

Her murder was later linked to Lester Harrison, a man with a long record of violent crimes and prior stays in psychiatric institutions. Three weeks after Betteley’s killing, Harrison was charged in an assault in which a woman, Cozetta Gladys, was knocked down with a brick and dragged through a Chicago alley; he was released on $5,000 bond on September 28. Additional murders in and around Grant Park followed in 1973, including victims Irene Koutros, Lee Wilson, and Judith Ott, and reports tied Harrison to further gruesome violence.