Do you know who murdered the Dardeen family in 1987? On 18 November 1987, 29-year-old male victim Russell Keith Dardeen failed to appear for his shift at the Rend Lake water-treatment plant. When deputies entered his beige-and-white trailer outside Ina, Illinois, they discovered a scene of staggering brutality that would reverberate through southern Illinois for decades. Inside the master bedroom lay the bodies of his 30-year-old pregnant wife, Ruby Elaine Dardeen, their 2-year-old son Peter, and the newborn daughter Elaine had delivered during th
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