A grandson of Irma Palasics, who was brutally murdered in a 1999 home invasion, delivered a harrowing testimony at the sentencing hearing for her killers—now in their seventies. The case, long considered cold, was revived by a DNA match from a milk bottle, linking Steve Fabriczy to the crime and implicating Joseph Vekony, who also assaulted Irma in a separate burglary. Prosecutors framed the attack as a targeted, degrading act of violence, calling for the harshest sentence possible. The Palasics family, still reeling from 24 years of grief, fought tirelessly to keep the case alive, and now the court must reckon with the enduring trauma and justice sought for Irma’s death. Sentencing is set for Friday.

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