Tough show today. Verlie called in on her way to Indianapolis to talk about Val Taneff, her good friend, who was there when Mike Suggs proposed to her at Asparagus in Merrillville. "That's how good of friends we were," Verlie said. Val and her daughter were strangled to death in their homes in Calumet Township. "Horribly gruesome scene," said Lake County Sheriff John Buncich.
A number of callers remembered Karen from the North Shore. It really is true that she parked her car on the Skyway in south Chicago and, according to police and the Chicago Tribune, jumped 200 feet to her death on the ice of the Calumet River. Dody Russel, who owns Bellsom Electric, was listening to the show in the parking lot and found out that it was Karen from the North Shore. Dody came in the building crying, almost unable to appear on the show.
"We worked together in the 1980s at the Hammond Civic Center. She and Ron are good friends," Dody said.
Then Gloria called in...