1985 CASE 2 Youngstown sisters face charges in Chicago killing

The Youngstown women implicated themselves in the murder, police said.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two sisters from Youngstown have been accused of taking part in the 1985 slaying of an elderly Chicago woman, prosecutors said.
Elizabeth Gonzalez, 41, and Belinda Gauna, 38, of Youngstown, turned themselves in Thursday and were charged with murder after a witness in an unrelated case told authorities that Gonzalez once admitted taking part in the crime, prosecutors said.
Cook County Judge Colleen Hyland set bond Friday at $900,000 for Gonzalez and $850,000 for Gauna.
Seventy-year-old Marge Belmont was beaten to death in 1985 when she began screaming after waking up to find four burglars inside her home on Chicago's West Side, said Assistant State's Attorney Gene Richards.
Those burglars were Gonzalez, Gauna, their now-deceased brother and Ricardo Mendez, prosecutors allege.
Investigators said the two women allegedly have given videotaped statements implicating themselves and the two men, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Charges are pending against Mendez, who is serving time in an Illinois prison for residential burglary.
Mendez is believed to have inflicted the beating that killed Belmont, investigators told the Tribune.
Gave information
According to one of the sisters, the man who allegedly carried out the beating had knelt on Belmont's chest, which would have been unknown to anyone without intimate knowledge of the case, investigators said. An autopsy performed not long after the crime showed that Belmont suffered a sternum injury and nine fractured ribs, investigators said.
Cold case investigators from the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County state's attorney's office investigated. Investigators said new information was developed and a witness with knowledge about the case was identified in the neighborhood.