When you hear or think about the phrase “every parent's worst nightmare” you may think it can’t get any worse. But it can - and it does. Jaclyn Dowaliby was just 7 years old when she vanished from her home in Midlothian, Illinois in 1988- years before the more well known JonBenét Ramsey case.

Jaclyn Dowaliby cold case reexamined 28 years later - ABC7 Chicago

Jaclyn Dowaliby | Unsolved Mysteries Wiki

David Dowaliby - National Registry of Exonerations

https://casetext.com/case/people-v-dowaliby

Unsolved Mysteries, Season 5 Episode 10, 18 Nov 1992 (about 25 minutes in)

“Gone In The Night” 1996 movie starring Shannen Doherty and Kevin Dillon- Trailer

“Gone In The Night: The Dowaliby Family's Encounter With Murder and the Law” by David Protess & Rob Warden

David Dowaliby was convicted of murder based solely on testimony that the Appellate Court found preposterous

People v. Dowaliby, 221 Ill. Law Journal

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-10-31-9104070987-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-04-16-9001310764-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-04-17-9002010076-story.html