Who Killed Tammy Zywicki?
The 21-year-old college student’s family lives in hope that her 1992 murder will be solved.
In August 1992, a vivacious, ambitious student named Tammy Jo Zywicki was returning to college in Iowa from her home state of New Jersey.
She never made it. Instead, she was discovered murdered and dumped by the roadside nine days later in Illinois. Police were unable to trace the culprit and the case eventually went cold. However, nearly 30 years later, the FBI remains hopeful that DNA technology will lead to Tammy’s murderer finally being unveiled.
Car trouble and apparent abduction
Tammy Jo Zywicki had been excited to return to Grinnell College for her senior year. A keen photographer as well as soccer player, she had opted to head back on August 23rd — slightly before the beginning of classes — to take pictures of the school’s athletes for its yearbook.
She dropped her younger brother off at Northwestern University in Illinois and journeyed west on I-80, promising her parents she would call home to New Jersey when she reached her destination. That call never came and, after waiting several hours, her mother JoAnn decided to call campus police.
