Paul Runge serial killer, the sad end for two Bosnian sisters who escaped the hell in Sarajevo for a better life, only to end up in hell on earth

Twelve years after two Bosnian sisters disappeared from their Hanover Park apartment and six years after an accused serial killer allegedly said he murdered and dismembered them, their parents in Bosnia can get official death certificates.
A DuPage County judge has ordered that the documents be issued for Amela Pasanbegovic, 20, and her sister, Dzeneta, 22, based on a videotaped confession in 2001 by Paul Runge, even though the women's remains never were found. The sisters' parents had requested the death certificates, which have no legal bearing on the pending murder case, officials said.

Runge, now on Death Row for killing a Chicago woman and her 10-year-old daughter, told investigators that he beat, bound, raped and cut up the women after luring them to his Glendale Heights home with the promise of housecleaning jobs.
Runge said he put their body parts into pillowcases and garbage bags that he later tossed into trash bins along North Avenue, according to court documents. Their slayings were two of the seven that Runge was accused of committing in seven years.
The sisters came to America in January 1995 to escape the ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo. Their father, Mensur, an engineer, cashed his nest egg to send them here, said Michael Wolfe, chief of the DuPage County state's attorney's office's criminal division.
Like many other refugees, they made their escape through a half-mile tunnel leading from the besieged city to a neutral zone established by the United Nations.
"The two got smuggled out in hopes of a better life, and then they encounter this vicious killer," Wolfe said.
After living with their uncle for a time, the sisters found work at the Duraco factory in Streamwood and got their own apartment. They had been laid off and were in the unemployment line when they heard about a housekeeping job. The day before they disappeared, a former co-worker had warned them to be careful meeting with Runge.
The sisters' parents had spoken to their only children on June 6, 1995, a month before they disappeared. Police eventually entered the women's apartment and found their belongings undisturbed.
Runge, convicted last year for the 1997 rape and murder of the mother and daughter, described to investigators how he killed the sisters. When Dzeneta Pasanbegovic tried to run out of his house, he said, he grabbed her by the back of her head and slammed her head on a concrete slab near the front door.
He then carried her inside, dropping her on the basement steps, where she struck her head again, according to court documents. Runge said he placed her in a filled bathtub and left the room, finding she had drowned when he returned.
Amela Pasanbegovic was handcuffed to a weight bench, raped, then strangled, according to his statement.
"He made their last moments hell," Wolfe said.
The team of DuPage and Cook County prosecutors who helped get Runge's conviction and death penalty sentence will seek a trial in Cook County in the 1995 slaying of a friend of Runge's ex-wife. Prosecutors plan to also seek the death penalty in that case.