CHICAGO (WBM NEWSRADIO) -- Authorities are offering $20,000 for anyone who can help them solve an eight-year cold case of a tavern owner and a woman found beaten to death inside the bar’s burned husk in northwest suburban Schiller Park.
The body of George Markopoulos, the 67-year-old owner of Horseshoe Inn, was uncovered inside the bar at 9639 W. Irving Park Road as firefighters battled an enormous blaze there the morning of Jan. 27, 2011, according to a statement from Schiller Park police. He was living at an apartment in the back of the tavern.
The village announced the $20,000 reward just before the double slaying’s eight-year anniversary arrived Sunday. Anyone with information is asked to call Schiller Park police at (847) 678-4794.
“The tragic deaths of George and Wendy shook our close-knit community and has not been forgotten,” mayor Nick Caiafa said in a statement. “We owe it to George, Wendy and their families to find who did this and bring them to justice.”