Pain of unsolved murders passes to new generation

It's coming up on 33 years since friends Deborah Kozlarek, 17, andCarolyn Vandermolen, 13, were found murdered in Washington Park, eachshot once in the back of the head. Their deaths were big newsat the time. Everybody wanted to know how the two girls from Back ofthe Yards came to such a violent end two miles east of their hometurf.

Reporters in what was still a four-newspaper town scrounged forsuch details as the type of cigarettes Kozlarek smoked and the foodthe girls consumed not long before their post-midnight demise, asgleaned from the autopsy.

But there was a shortage of real clues, and within a week, thestory was off the front pages. After a month, the …