Dzeneta Janet Pasanbegovic was 22 when she and her 20-year-old sister Amela vanished after resettling in Hanover Park, Illinois. The sisters, refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina, had been in the United States about six months when they disappeared on or around July 11, 1995; their absence was reported July 24, 1995. Despite searches, neither woman’s body has ever been recovered.

Serial killer Paul Frederick Runge later confessed to sexually assaulting and killing the sisters after luring them under false pretenses. Runge was already convicted of multiple murders and was charged in connection with Dzeneta Janet Pasanbegovic and Amela’s deaths, but those charges were dropped in 2011 after prosecutors and the family consulted about punishment given his existing life-without-parole sentences.

The case remains officially linked to Runge’s spree and stands as a tragic unresolved chapter for the family. Does anyone have memories of the sisters from Hanover Park in 1995 or information that could help clarify what happened?