Dan Fulscher, director of Logan County’s emergency management agency, was a few years out of high school when Martin disappeared and the Frys were murdered. A body that was discovered along the side of a road near Lincoln has been identified. John Reynolds can be reached at 788-1524. The park remained closed while emergency services dealt with the incident, before re-opening later in the day. Lincoln police reopened the Ruth Martin case in 2006 in the hope that new technology would help solve the case, Detective Sgt. He added that the cordon to the play area has now been lifted, but the back gate to the park remains shut. Our reporter Paul Whitelam is on the way to Boultham Park to get the latest from the scene. Choose the plan that's right for you. “Society really doesn’t have a place for Russell Smrekar,” Circuit Judge John McCullough said at the time. Notified last month that Smrekar’s health was deteriorating, detectives from Lincoln and Rolling Meadows interviewed Smrekar in prison. Digital access or digital and print delivery. Digital access or digital and print delivery. Lincoln police are investigating a body found on a sidewalk near the Lumber Works Parking Garage in downtown Lincoln on Sunday morning. When he was sentenced in April 1977 for murdering the Frys, Smrekar, then 21 and originally from Joliet, showed no emotion, newspaper archives said. CHICAGO, IL — A man's body has been recovered from the Lincoln Park lagoon, according to police. Paul has sent us this photo showing that Boultham Park is still accessible from one of the entrances. A cadaver dog searched Kickapoo Creek Park and Immanuel Lutheran Church property in late March of that year. In late 2017, the body of a woman was found in the same lagoon. LINCOLN, Ill. (WAND) - The Logan County Coroner has released the name of a woman found dead in the garage of a vacant home in Lincoln on July 14. The Frys were killed in October 1976. At this stage we are not treating this death as suspicious. The CPD Marine Unit was called to the 2400 block … Smrekar was sentenced to two 100- to 300-year prison sentences. Martin’s body was never found, but authorities were convinced for decades that Smrekar killed her and Mansfield as well as the Frys. Police were called to the park just before 8am after the body of a man in his 20s was found … LINCOLN – A deathbed confession has confirmed that Russell Smrekar, convicted in 1977 of the killings of a Lincoln couple, also was guilty of two more murders – all motivated by Smrekar’s desire to avoid prosecution for two petty thefts. Boultham Park in Lincoln was shut this morning, Thursday, November 21 after a man was found dead. “We were such a small town. One dog walker, who did not wish to be named, told our reporter: I felt a bit sick when I first heard what had happened.