A LaGrange, Ill. person resembling the fugitive Richard Church might have been the man sighted Tuesday at NIU.

Church, the suspected Woodstock murderer of former girlfriend Colleen Ritter’s parents, is wanted on a federal warrant issued in August 1988 for fleeing from police. Church was enrolled at NIU during the 1988 Spring semester.

A LaGrange man, who wished to remain nameless, claimed the NIU students who reportedly seen Church mistakenly identified his son, whom he described as “the spitting image of Church.”

The person was driving a Chevrolet Citation at about the same time the Church sighting was reported, the man said.

After viewing pictures of the person, the students who said they spotted Church said the picture did not resemble the man they saw. The Chevrolet Citation driven by the person was a two-tone model, unlike the dark-blue car reported, she said.

When the sighting was first reported, University Police Capt. James Webster said the two students “have convinced us that they have sighted Richard Church.” Although the two students originally reported spotting Church, a release received Sunday states there was only one witness to the Church sighting.

“We’re still treating this as a possible sighting of Church. We have to. That’s all we ever said it was—possible—although the young woman who made the report says she is still positive it was Church,” Webster said.