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Candy heiress murdered, sources say

CHICAGO, Illinois - Another cold case is warming up. The 1977 disappearance of Helen Vorhees Brach, heiress to the Brach Candy fortune, is now being looked at as a murder. Jack Matlick, Brach’s former houseman and driver, has reportedly told authorities the woman was shot in the chest on Feb. 17, 1977, wrapped in a rug, and brought to a steel plant where her body was incinerated. Matlick was also Brach’s occasional lover and he was once a suspect in the disappearance. Ernie Rizzo, a private investigator assigned to the case, said he thinks Matlick is the triggerman. "He took the Fifth Amendment in front of a grand jury, he failed a lie detector test, and he hasn’t been talked to since," said Rizzo. Sources have also indicated that Matlick stole money from Brach after her death, took her Cadillac, and sold some of her gold to a coin dealer. There was no comment from prosecutors, but the reporter of the story said that indictments are expected.