Will County Sheriff's Lt. Nat Freeman and Sgt. Mike Earnest said that they, along with several fellow detectives, were followed for several days in October by a Los Angeles-based film crew that is producing a true-crime television segment about the case for the Oxygen network show "Cold Justice."
Joan Bernal was a driver for the Joliet Mass Transit District. She was born in Oak Park and grew up in Hickory Hills, graduating from Stagg High School in 1972.
"It's basically a documentary," Earnest told Joliet Patch. "We got followed around by a camera crew for about 10 days."
Earnest and Freeman disclosed that their prime suspect surrounding the murder of Joan Bernal remains her former husband, Gilbert "Gil," Bernal. At the time of her...