On October 9, 1976, 24-year-old Robin Fry and her husband Jay, also 24, were shot and killed in Lincoln, Illinois. Robin was pregnant with the couple’s first child. Their murders were later connected by authorities to a string of violent crimes in the area that included the disappearance and presumed murder of local realtor Ruth Martin and the Schneider family triple homicide.

The primary suspect named in the Fry killings was Russell Albin Smrekar, a former Lincoln College student who had been expelled and who was later identified in connection with multiple murders in the region. Investigations into the Fry case were dogged by allegations that Lincoln Police Department detectives withheld evidence, including a bloody T-shirt found in Kickapoo Creek Park, and that former detectives William A. Krueger and Thomas Maurer obstructed justice and concealed information.

Does anyone have information about the Fry case or recall details that could help clarify who else might have been involved?