Progress Is Being Made In Semaj Crosby Death Investigation – CBS Chicago

July 26, 2017 9:04 AM By Bernie Tafoya

CHICAGO (CBS) Three months after the mysterious death of 17-month-old Semaj Crosby, Will County States Attorney James Glasgow said progress is being made in the investigation, and insisted investigators are not running in mud.

Semaj was reported missing on April 25. After two days of searching the area around her home in unincorporated Joliet Township, police found her body inside the house on April 27, under a couch.

An autopsy was inconclusive, pending the results of full toxicology tests. However, her death has been ruled suspicious and the case remains open. The Will County Sheriffs office has said there were no obvious signs of trauma or injury.

Will County States Attorney James Glasgow said the circumstances of Semajs death are not simple.

Theyre not simple forensically. Thats the problem. You know, the forensic evidence isnt as clear cut as it would be in some cases. Whenever you have a young child, there arent always the physical representations of what happened to them, he said.

Glasgow said the forensics in a toddlers death are not as simple as they might be in older people.

Progress is being made. I cant say what, okay? But its not the end of the line, and were never going to let this one go, obviously, Glasgow says.

When Semajs body was found, police revealed that a number of squatters had lived in the home with Semajs family. The Will County Sheriffs Office has saudid some witnesses were being re-interviewed.

Glasgow said detectives sheriffs office are tenacious and are continuing to find out what happened to Semaj.

All I can say is we have made progress; that were not running in mud, he said.

After Semajs body was found, officials deemed the home uninhabitable, saying it was in very deplorable condition. The vacant house later burned to the ground in a possible case of arson.

Im a lifelong Chicagoan and could never see myself living anywhere else (except maybe Hawaii!). I was born on the North Side in 1958 but have lived all but the first three months of my life on the South Side. That said, thank (or is that curse?)...

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