The inspector, Charles Anthony Sterling, was born on May 20, 1963, in Glen Ellen, Illinois, and at the age of five, his parents moved to Peoria, Illinois. The inspector attended and graduated from St. Vincent De Paul Catholic High School in 1981. Inspector Sterling obtained a BA in political science from Ohio State in 1985 and went on to earn a master’s degree in international relations from Ohio State University in 1990.

Inspector Sterling, upon graduation, started a career with the Foreign Service, and after three years living and working in South Africa, he returned to the States and took a job with the Central Intelligence Agency. He left the CIA in April of 1996 to join the Chicago Police Department. In 1998 he was promoted to the rank of detective and assigned a role in the burglary division. 1n 1999 Sterling volunteered to take over a murder case deemed unsolvable by veteran detectives. Sterling solved the case and was moved to the departments homicide unit.

As a homicide detective, Inspector Sterling has solved 356 of 387 homicide cases, a closure rate of 92 percent. Inspector Sterling has credited his ability to close cases, to being a student of human nature and being good at telling when people are lying. The last case Inspector Sterling solved was a double murder of a husband-and-wife minister couple. The case had been unsolved for over five years. The Inspector solved the case in the manner of a month. The inspector was looking forward to a needed holiday and had reached out to his good friend who owned and operated a luxury hotel in New York.

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