Seven years later the case was briefly reopened in response to a flurry of articles in which the Chicago Sun Times accused police and the Mayor’s office of official malfeasance and cover-up.
The Sun Times had discovered:
...that police did NOT interview witnesses until Koschman had died, some 3 weeks after the event;
...that Vanecko had refused to be interviewed by police and had shaved his head to change his appearance in anticipation of a police lineup which was held 1 MONTH after the altercation;
...that witness Michael Connolly claimed police had misrepresented his statements to them in order to make Koschman appear the aggressor;
...that the case file had suddenly gone missing from the prosecutor’s office and that the States Attorney refused to reveal the name of the prosecutor who decided to neither file charges or refer the case to a Grand Jury.
The case was then officially closed by Chicago police.