--- description: Kristina Wesselman, 15, was found raped and stabbed near her suburban Chicago home title: Suspect Arrested 30 Years After Teen's Murder image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Suspect Arrested 30 Years After Teen's Murder by [Jon Schuppe/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Jon Schuppe/NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 20, 2015 11:28 PM CUT by [Jon Schuppe/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Jon Schuppe/NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 20, 2015 11:28 PM CUT On the day she buried her 15-year-old daughter, Sandra Wesselman made a silent promise: to never let the search for her killer be forgotten. “I didn’t know that was going to be a lifetime process,” Wesselman [said in 2011](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxfVdVWxjQ "undefined"), two-and-a-half decades after Kristina Wesselman was found raped and stabbed in a field near their suburban Chicago home. The mother can now put her vow to rest. > [](https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/645669451510226947) On Sunday, authorities announced that they’d caught the suspected killer: a 62-year-old man who lived 150 miles south of the crime scene. The big break came on Sept. 10, when investigators “obtained new information” on the case… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/30-years-after-illinois-girls-murder-tip-yields-alleged-killer-n430601?cid=par-time-article%5F20150920 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4041901/kristina-wesselman-suspected-killer-michael-jones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4041901/kristina-wesselman-suspected-killer-michael-jones/"},"headline":"Suspect Arrested 30 Years After Teen's Murder","datePublished":"2015-09-20T23:28:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:05:45.121Z","description":"Kristina Wesselman, 15, was found raped and stabbed near her suburban Chicago home","url":"https://time.com/4041901/kristina-wesselman-suspected-killer-michael-jones/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jon Schuppe/NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4041901/kristina-wesselman-suspected-killer-michael-jones/","name":"Suspect Arrested 30 Years After Teen's Murder"}}]}] ```