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Chicago Tribune
December 14, 2013
A convicted felon charged in the 1988 slaying of a woman in her Rogers Park apartment was ordered held without bail today, authorities said.
DNA evidence helped Chicago police arrest Prentice Phillips, 48, of Evanston, who was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the beating death of Margaret Blair, who was 81, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Investigators in May sent DNA evidence collected at the time of the attack analyzed to the state police crime lab using a cold-case grant, and on Sept. 30 it was matched to Phillips, prosecutors said Friday.
The attack on Blair took place about 3 a.m. on July 11, 1988, when Phillips, then 23, knocked on the window of Blair’s basement apartment, waking her up, and tried to have her let him into the home by telling her there was a prowler in the area, prosecutors said.
Blair would not let Phillips into her apartment, so he kicked her door open, hitting her in the face in the the process, proscutors said. Phillips got onto Blair as she lay on the ground, covered her mouth with his hand, and raped her, prosecutors said.
Phillips took cash from Blair’s purse and left.
When she was found by emergency personnel, Blair was able to tell investigators what had happened, and describe her attacker, prosecutors said.
