DNA breakthrough leads to arrest in grisly 33-year-old cold case investigators never gave up on

For more than three decades, the murder of Randy Gail Sperino haunted investigators in southern Illinois — a cold case centered on a young woman beaten to death and left in a rural field while her killer seemingly vanished without a trace. Investigators spent decades chasing leads and revisiting evidence, but the case remained unsolved. Now, prosecutors say a breakthrough in forensic genealogy and decades-old DNA evidence finally cracked the case wide open. Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Ha