CHICAGO MURDER 2 sisters jailed in Ill. crime

The women were interviewed for 10 hours, lawyer says.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Two sisters from the South Side now charged with a murder that happened 19 years ago in Chicago remain in jail there, unable to make bond, their attorney says.
Youngstown attorney Mark S. Colucci said Elizabeth Gonzalez, 41, and Belinda Gauna, 38, lived in Chicago until 1991, when they moved here to be near family members.
Colucci said Monday that Gonzalez contacted him after she and her sister were interviewed in Youngstown for 10 hours by Chicago detectives assigned to work inactive or cold cases.
Woman beaten to death
The women are accused of being present when a 70-year-old woman was beaten to death in Chicago in April 1985.
Colucci said he was with the women last week when they turned themselves in to Chicago police. He said they can't post bonds of $800,000 and $900,000.
Colucci said investigators believe a man imprisoned until 2009 for burglary committed the murder.
He said the sisters, during their interview with detectives without a lawyer present, made a statement about being in the building during the crime but did so just to end the interview.
Colucci said he's working with a lawyer from Illinois.
Colucci believes the women are being pressured to implicate the man in prison, who once lived in their Chicago neighborhood.
He said the sisters' names were mentioned by the man in prison in an attempt to send detectives on a "wild goose chase."
He said the only evidence he sees is the statement, a product of a lengthy interrogation without a lawyer. He said the sisters deny being in the house when the woman was killed.