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Dzaneta Pasanbegovic, 22, and her sister Amela, 20, arrived in the United States as refugees from Bosnia and were living in Hanover Park, Illinois, in 1995. After losing factory jobs, they accepted an offer to clean a man’s house. They were last seen on July 11, 1995, and reported missing on July 24, 1995.

In 2001 Paul Frederick Runge confessed to luring the sisters to his home, attacking them, and killing them — describing Dzaneta being struck, having her head slammed into concrete, and drowned in a bathtub, and Amela being assaulted and strangled. Runge said he dismembered their bodies and disposed of remains in garbage bins along North Avenue. No remains have been recovered.

Prosecutors declined to pursue murder charges against Runge for the sisters because he was already serving the maximum sentence; a judge issued death certificates for Dzaneta and Amela. Does anyone have memories of the sisters in Hanover Park or information about North Avenue garbage disposal activity in July 1995?