November 19,1991, 14 year old Cateresa Matthews disappeared from her great grandmothers house in Dixmoor, Illionios. She was not seen again until December 8,1991, when her bodied was discovered on a well worn path. Running along I-57 as it passes through Dixmoor she had been shot in the mouth with a .25 caliber pistol. She was also a obvious victim of sexual assult, she was naked from the waist down.

Her white underwear was found on her right ankle and her jeans were placed acrossed her chest. Cateresa had seminal fluid found around her vagina and anus. The investigators took a swab sample of her bodily fluids. 

Unfortunately there was no arrests or leads, for over ten months. On October 20,1992 a police report indicated that Keno Barnes age 15, informed police that Jonathan Barr told him when he last saw Cateresa. He noticed Cateresa getting into a car with Robert Lee Veal and Robert Taylor, the boys at the time were only fourteen years old. On October 29,1992 Robert Lee Veal age fifteen was brought in by police for questioning, 

which took more than five hours in custody. Veal was interrogated outside the presence of his parents. He had then signed a statement that himself Jonathan Barr age fifteen, Robert Taylor age fifteen, Shainne Sharp age seventeen and Jaimes Harden age seventeen gang raped and murdered Matthews. Robert Taylor then signed a statement outside the presence of his parents, stating himself and four other teenagers in the crime.

Twenty one hours later Shainne Sharp also signed a statement stating himself an four other teenagers in the crime. The three confessions contradicted each other on the basic facts of the case. In June 1994, before the teenagers were questioned the Illinois police crime lab found DNA from male sperm found in the victims body. All five people were excluded as the source of the semen was pushed forward rather than seeking the source of the semen recovered from the victims.

Police Department claimed that it was unable to locate the DNA and was threatened with contempt of court for failing to respond to subpoena. Soon after the Department informed the lawyers that they have finally located the evidence after logging books for themselves. DNA was uncovered of a full male profile entered into the CODIS database of criminal offenders and then matched the profile of a violent serial offender, Willie Randolph. Randolph was

twenty three and lived in the victims neighborhood and a parole after serving a twenty year sentence for armed robbery. Based on the DNA evidence Judge Simmons vacated the convictions of Taylor, Harden and Barr on November 3,2011 and dismissed all charges against all five men. Also, Taylor an Harden were released from prison and Veal had already served his time and was living in Minnesota. Sharp served ten years in prison for the crime but because of his history was sentenced to another ten years in 2009 for drug charges. But he was released in Febuary 2012.