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A dark morning. Waves on Lake Michigan. An elegant home on the beach, and a senatorial candidate who would one day be considered presidential material at home with his close knit family in one of Chicago's quietest, most elegant suburbs. This is the unlikely setting for the most notorious, baffling, and horrific cold case murder of the 1960s. Valerie Percy...pretty, smart, destined for greatness at just 21 years old, a key aide and campaigner for her father, Charles Percy...violently beaten and stabbed to death in her bedroom by a knife-wielding intruder. The only witness - her stepmother. No sexual assault. Nothing taken. No rational explanation. As inexplicable as the Manson murders that would occur in the Hollywood Hills a few years later. The killer escaped to a beach and disappeared into thin air, never to be found. Percy went on to become a long serving Senator from the state of Illinois. His late daughter s twin became the First Lady of West Virginia, married to West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller. Glenn Wall revisits the long cold case. Talking to cops, both retired and current, reporters, friends and Percy s former aides. He explores the players, the place and building on circumstantial and documentary evidence reveals a new prime suspect, a violent, disturbed individual who was raised within walking distance of Percy's home, and ultimately died at the hands of his own family. This is one of the country s most enduring unsolved murders. And it is riveting reading.
- Sales Rank: #108777 in Books
- Published on: 2014-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .70" h x 5.90" w x 8.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 325 pages
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Book, well researched and written
By Jack Coladarci
Valerie Percy was buried in the same churchyard as both my wife, and my father (about 10 feet away) until her remains were moved to be with her family in Washington DC a few years ago. Every time my kids and I would visit the churchyard, we would talk about the Valerie Percy murder. But information about it was limited, and I could never provide many answers. Glenn Wall's excellent book provides superb coverage of the event, and its background and aftermath. I was born, and grew up in Winnetka, about a half mile from the Percy's house, and live there still, and what really struck me about Wall's book is how accurately he was able to capture the time and place. His descriptions of places and incidents are spot on, and he is even able to capture the pervasive "feeling" that things were spinning a bit out of control throughout the 60's. The crimes that he describes as taking place in the area (break ins, cut screens, vandalism, families with crazy members, and activities like those of the Thoresson brothers) had deeply unsettled the area, and had caused a lot of fear and feelings of dislocation - that continued for a long time, and changed the way people acted in profound ways (when my parents moved into Winnetka in the late 50's, they did not have a key to the front door of the house - the people who sold them their house didn't have it either, and never used it. We even used to leave the house unlocked when going on vacation). Glenn Wall's book should be known as the definitive reference for the Valerie Percy murder.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Superior Sleuthing
By Boydster
I hadn't thought about the Percy murder in decades. As a resident of Kenilworth when the murder was committed, and also as someone who was very familiar with the family, I had been very distressed when no perp was ever announced. To me, it was like the event was slowly absorbed into the quicksand of local and regional law enforcement. There were also other forces in place at that time that made a solution to the murder difficult, indeed. Percy was in the middle of his second quest for high office, and had multitudes of local supporters, many of whom were probably reluctant to rock the political boat by being totally forthcoming regarding their knowledge of possible perps. Plus, the nation was still in shock about the Kennedy assassination and the North Shore by and large found LBJ to be the evil Texan who Percy might be able to neutralize, at least locally. When I was noodling on Face Book one day in a group labeled "Growing Up in Wilmette", I saw a posting regarding a local ABC news story reconnecting with the slaying which most had buried in history, After watching the 2-minute story on my computer, I started looking into the book and how I could get it. Amazon is my store of choice, and I downloaded a sample. Wall has an easygoing style not at all intimidating to read, and I was instantly taken aback by some of the data he had assembled sourced from several different agencies and departments. Names of people I personally knew, including parents of both my godfather and employer at the time were there, and also a Winnetka cop with whom I'd had a run-in. It was very clear that the information that I could confirm was accurate.
As i continued through the book, some of the positions Wall took were clearly speculative and yet seemed to hold water quite well. And his conclusion pointed to a couple of individuals (one in particular) that most likely were capable of committing this senseless crime. Missing, of course, was a definitive "WHY". I have my own opinions on that, and they've not changed after reading "Sympathy Vote." So while not actually solving the Val Percy crime, the book places the reader right on Devonshire Lane off of Sheridan Road in Kenilworth, Illinois in the 1960s. I'd recommend the book for that reason alone.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Reexamining a very old murder
By Lynn D. Newton
On September 18, 1966, 21-year-old Valerie Jeanne Percy was brutally murdered in her bed in Kenilworth, Illinois. She was the daughter of Charles Percy, who was then the Republican party’s nominee for the upcoming US Senate race in Illinois, the election barely seven weeks away. The questions of who committed the murder and why were never resolved, and the case remains open to this day. Glenn Wall's new book looks once again at the murder and the investigation that followed.
A series of coincidences provide me a sense of personal connection to this story. The Percys lived a little over a mile from my own home in Wilmette, Illinois. For four years I passed by their place daily on my way to New Trier High School. Though I never knew them personally, Valerie and her twin sister Sharon were one year behind me at that school. I'm sure we must have crossed paths frequently. Also, I did not know until I became interested in the book that its author was the next door neighbor of my parents in Wilmette at the time of the murder, by which time I was off in college. And he wrote about people and places of which I have personal knowledge.
I first heard of Chuck Percy from my eighth grade homeroom teacher Wilmette, sometime during the 1956–57 school year, when one day she told us with notable pride about this man who had come through the superlative school system there. Already the multimillionaire president of Bell and Howell, and a resident of his home in Kenilworth since 1952, Percy had political aspirations and was considered the sort of person who might even aspire to the presidency of the United States. Percy was elected three times to the US ssenate, but passed on the presidency when Gerald Ford opted to run.
Valerie Percy's sister Sharon was and still is also an extremely capable young woman, who soon married Jay Rockefeller, who in turn became first the governor and currently a senator from West Virginia.
Despite these and other family successes, the whole Percy family remained forever haunted by fears and grief after the murder of Valerie.
It is now over 47 years since the murder, and the case is still open, but little work is being done to try to solve it.
In the course of recently reading books by Amanda Lindhout and Elizabeth Smart, both of them victims of kidnapping and all manner of physical and mental abuse, I told my wife what I remembered of the Valerie Percy murder, having not thought about in a very long time, and not knowing that a book about it was about to be published. After connecting with the author on Facebook and learning that one of his first sources was another mutual neighbor, a close personal friend of Chuck Percy and his family, and intuiting that he has a good story with new information to tell, I bought and read the book myself.
The basic facts of the murder, which has long been a part of the public record, are these. At just before 5:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 18, 1966, a male intruder broke into the Percys’ house, likely cutting his way through the glass on the French doors on the ground floor. He made his way to Valerie’s bedroom, and for whatever reason, began the beating and stabbing that quickly resulted in the death of Valerie Percy.
Loraine Percy, Valerie’s stepmother (their natural mother had died when the three youngest Percy children were quite young), was awakened by the noise in the house, rushed to Valerie’s bedroom, and saw the intruder, but not well enough to see his face. He made a break for it, escaping likely through the same door he entered, fleeing along the beachfront, leaving behind a pile of evidence. Moments later, Valerie Jeanne Percy died in Loraine Percy’s arms.
Kenilworth is a tiny and exclusive town of mostly wealthy residents, sandwiched between Wilmette and Winnetka on Lake Michigan’s North Shore. There had never been a murder reported there, and very little trouble of any other kind, mostly burglaries by outsiders, the occasional domestic dispute, and traffic violations. The small police force was neither large enough nor adequately equipped to handle the investigation of what instantly became the biggest crime story in the nation. Help was enslisted from nearby communities, mainly from Winnetka and Wilmette, then from Chicago, and finally from the Illinois state police, who took over and organized the investigation. In all, hundreds of full-time investigators worked on the case.
Yet, with all that investigative clout, after months of searching, nothing was turned up that led to even one viable suspect. It wasn’t like they had cornered one or two possibilities but just couldn’t pin anything on them. They had mountains of data, pursued thousands of leads, interviewed something like a thousand people, and in the end they had nothing. Nada. Zip.
Rather than regurgitating facts that have been known for decades, Glenn Wall has sought to reintroduce some facts that were previously given little attention, along with some strong lines of reasoning, to build a case that argues in favor of one person as the most likely perptrator of the murder. The case Wall presents is more than a little convincing — so much so that readers will wonder how it ever got overlooked before.
I've chosen not to include spoiler information in this review. It's best that people read the book and get the facts in a systematic way that the author worked for years to research and put in order. If you do, you will be amazed by the array of details presented, and will be able to draw your own conclusions.
For my part, I’m convinced that Glenn Wall is onto something here; I hope that after all these years the attention of persons in a position to act on it will be roused, and that in due time a correct and just conclusion can be drawn that might settle the questions that are still open beyond reasonable doubt, and in a way that satisfies the surviving family members. The reason I gave this book a five-star rating is not merely because it's well written and engaging, though it is, but also because I think it is important and because I would like to see attention drawn to it in hopes that both news and law enforcement agencies will be moved thereby to consider whether the information it presents might be useful in their ongoing investigation.
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