SEARCH CONTINUES FOR SHOREWOOD MOTHER WHO VANISHED IN 1990
September 2, 2007
By
JANET LUNDQUIST Staff Writer
The story could have been printed last spring.
A mother of two disappears without a trace. Her credit cards and bank account remain untouched, her car still parked in the garage.
"This is not like her at all," her construction worker husband says, adding that it wasn't like her to go anywhere without her children.
But this isn't the story of missing Plainfield mother Lisa Stebic, whose disappearance has drawn extensive media coverage and captivated the public's interest since she vanished April 30. This missing-person case has been open for 17 years.
Jeri Lynn Duvall was last seen by her husband Bob Duvall on the night of June 8, 1990, at their Shorewood home. On the insistence of Jeri's mother to notify the police, Bob reported her missing four days later.
Since those horrifying, yet still hopeful early days of her disappearance, Jeri's family has been awash in grief and anger -- but today is resigned to the belief that the worst has likely come to pass -- a heart-wrenching lack of closure.
"Your logical side says after so much time that we know what happened," said Jeri's sister-in-law, Lynn Arwood of Manhattan. "But there's always that little piece of you that would love to see her walk in the door."
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