VIDEO: The Tragic Case of Amber Creek. Years Later… Is This the Killer?

While murder cases are always horrible, especially those that go for years unresolved and even when they are something still seems off, it’s especially horrific when the person that was murdered was just a child.

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Amber was just a teenager when she was brutally murdered and it took years for her killer to be caught, and even when it happened it seems that he might not have been the real killer.

According to wikipedia.org, Amber Gail “Aimee” Creek was a Palatine, Illinois girl who was murdered in 1997. Creek had run away from a youth shelter and was subsequently murdered and left in Burlington, Wisconsin, where she remained unidentified for approximately one year.

It was not until April 2014 that police had arrested a suspect, James Eaton, who was native to the same town as the victim, Palatine, Illinois. Eaton plead guilty to a reduced charge of reckless homicide in late 2016.

Amber Creek, described as a frequent runaway and a ward of the state, ran away from a youth shelter for the sixth time in early 1997 after long periods of depression that had resulted in her using drugs and alcohol.Creek’s father had taken her to a local police station and requested that she would be removed from his custody.

Subsequently, after unsuccessful attempts to enter the subject into foster care, she was placed in a group home from which she eventually ran away.It is also believed that she later resorted to prostitution.

Although she did not disclose her location, she did regularly speak with family members by telephone. She was last seen alive in February 1997, attending a hotel party with a group of men in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

On February 9, 1997, her body was discovered, frozen in a wildlife refuge, by hunters in Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin. It had been around two weeks after she had been reported missing. She was believed to have been murdered at a different location, which has never been identified, and then disposed of at the refuge.

A garbage bag was used to suffocate her, as it was found around her head.She had also been physically abused and raped. Creek had been bitten on the neck and was beaten and slashed in the facial area.The bite had caused compression to her neck, which played a role in her death.The word “hi” was written on the girl’s palm, which was raised in an upward position.

A price tag from a bookstore was observed to have been present on one of her arms. She wore few clothes, as some were likely removed in the process of the assault, including her jacket and backpack containing personal items.Her underwear was later discovered inside of her pants pocket.

A possible explanation to why some of her belongings were not found at the scene is that the murderer may have taken souvenirs. Authorities surmise that Creek may have been murdered by someone that may have received prostitution services from her.

Around one hundred Wisconsin inhabitants attended the then-unidentified victim’s funeral where she was buried in a donated casket. Initially, Creek was buried in a grave that read “Jane Doe” due to the fact that her identity was not yet known. Afterwards, she was later reburied and a new headstone was created that bore her name and lifespan.’