DCF Caseworker Stabbed to Death in Home While Investigating Report of Children in Danger: Officials
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Murder
An Illinois child welfare worker was killed Tuesday when she was reportedly stabbed during a home visit. Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator Diedre Silas, 36, was murdered while responding to reports of children in danger at a home in Thayer. Six children, between the ages of 1 and 7, were at the …