Joseph Didier

Joseph Didier was a newspaper boy that was brutally murdered in 1975 by Robert Lower.

The murder is said to have changed the local community of Rockford, Illinois and the surrounding area.

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Police search for missing newsboy, 15 Joey was abducted on the morning of Tuesday March 4, 1975, after delivering only three of the papers on his Morning Star paper route. The police went door to door in search of any information concerning the disappearance http://en. .org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_link.png
Internal linkof Joey. His brother, Danny, help finish the paper routes deliveries. His father, Rockford Alderman George Didier and wife Susan lived on Huffman Blvd, on the west side of Rockford. A paper bag was found in a yard on Fulton Avenue. Joey was a student at Roosevelt Middle School. He was 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 125 pounds. He had brown hair, blue eyes, and was wearing a maroon parka. About 76 law officers were involved in the search headed by Detective Captain Richard Anderson. Airplanes were called in to assist in the search. There was very little to go on. The fourth customer on Joey's route said she heard a scuffle outside her home about 6:15 am and the sounds of a car speeding away.

March 16, 1975 Didier boy found dead in isolated cabin / Shock, anger, remorse greet the news of young boy's fate The body of Joseph Didier 15 year old son of a Rockford alderman, who had been missing for 11 days, was found Saturday afternoon by two Boy Scout leaders in a cabin about ten miles north of Stockton.

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