Rachel Galbreath
No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye.
My heart still aches in sadness and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you - no one will ever know."
On May 9th, 2014, when 33 year-old Rachel worked at a dog grooming salon. When she didn't show up for work, one of her co-workers and friends stopped by Rachel's apartment in South Holland Illinois. It was about 10:30 a.m., and when her co-worker made her way inside, she found Rachel savagely beaten to death and lying in a pool of her own blood in her living room. She had been hit over 20 times by a blunt force object. When Rachel's family went to identify her, she was unrecognizable.
Investigators theorized that Rachel's murder could have been a crime of passion, rage, from someone she knew and trusted. Someone that attacked her from behind and without warning, since Rachel was trained in martial arts and could have probably defended herself otherwise.
Rachel and a tumultuous relationship with her boyfriend. They lived on and off together for eight years. He allegedly had a jealous and violent streak. One night, Rachel had woken up with him on top of her holding her down. This scared her pretty bad. Rachel had also found out that he was engaged to another woman the whole time they had been living together. A few weeks before her murder, she kicked him out.
Two months after Rachel was killed, her boyfriend got married. He was the sole beneficiary of Rachel's life insurance policy that was activated 30 days before her death. Oh, and the pay out was between $100,000 and $200,000. The boyfriend has never been named a suspect.
Rachel's family said that they will never give up on getting justice for Rachel.
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