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Anthony Hackett

Case from Wilmington, IL dated Jul 17, 1983

Victim Details

Anthony Hackett

Female

Wilmington

IL

1983-07-17

18

Anthony

Hackett

07/04/2026

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Anthony Hackett, an 18-year-old teenager, was tragically murdered on July 17, 1983. Hackett was fatally shot four times while he slept in a car parked along Interstate 55 near Wilmington, Illinois. He and his girlfriend had been returning home from Great America in Gurnee, Illinois when the attack occurred. The assailant, later identified as Milton Johnson, raped, bound, and gagged Hackett’s girlfriend before dumping her on a road south of Joliet. She survived the ordeal and was later found by ...
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  • Law officers across Northern Illinois today searched for a... - UPI
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