JOLIET, IL. (THECOUNT) — Badly decomposed remains discovered during the search are believed to belong to missing Joliet mother, Ashley Tucker.
Tucker, 24, was last seen leaving a party on Tamarack Drive, in Joliet, IL, Oct. 13 and was on her way home, Joliet authorities said.
An acquaintance of Tucker’s, wanted sex offender Peter Zabala, 42, was identified by police as a “person of interest” in the young woman’s disappearance. source
Zabala was apprehended and jailed Monday on a charge of violating the Sex Offender Registration Act.
He is being held without bond.
Anyone with possible information on the incident should contact police at 911.
Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, 30 miles southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County and a major part of the southwest Chicago metropolitan area. At the 2010 census, the city was the fourth largest in Illinois, with a population of 147,433, according to Wikipedia.
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