Urdiales believed that he could just as easily commit murders in Illinois and the surrounding area. As a security guard in a Chicago mall, he enjoyed great trust among customers and in his family environment. He crossed the state line into Bloomington, Indiana in April 1996, where he murdered 25-year-old Laura Ulyaki. Her body was found on April 14 in Wolf Lake, Illinois on the border of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. On July 14, 1996, police found the body of 21-year-old Cassandra Corum in the Vermilion River mountains in Livingston County, Illinois.
