Skeletal remains linked to 2006 murder

Family members never found Jesse Beskow when they searched for him two years ago to tell him that a hit-and-run driver had killed his father in New Mexico.

If what investigators believe is true, Beskow himself was already dead by then—shot in the head during a party in Palatine on July 25, 2006, authorities said Monday.

Beskow’s body was stuffed into the trunk of a car and driven to the Far South Side of Chicago, where it was hidden in an isolated area among high weeds, police said.

The father of a 24-year-old who attended the party led police last week to the location in the 11000 block of South Stony Island Avenue, authorities said.