Crime & Safety
Judge OKs Use Of Police Station Conversation In Whelpley Trial: Report
Barry Whelpley, 78, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1972 slaying of Julie Ann Hanson.
NAPERVILLE, IL — A Will County judge has ruled that part of a police station conversation between Barry Lee Whelpley, 78, and police officers can be used in court, Shaw Media reports. Whelpley has been charged in the 1972 murder of Julie Ann Hanson, 15, of Naperville.
According to Shaw Media, Judge David Carlson will permit statements from the police station conversation, provided those statements do not connect to a conversation at Whelpley's home that had previously been ruled inadmissible.
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In July 1972, Hanson was found dead near the intersection of 87th Street and Modaff Road after the bicycle she had been riding was found on a nearby gravel road. Hanson's body was found with numerous stab wounds. Whelpley was charged with first-degree murder in 2021 following "genealogy and DNA evidence," police said following his arrest.
Whelpley is set to appear in court again March 13.
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