Investigators worked hard to solve the case, but they got nowhere. Friends of the 48-year-old woman had no idea who would have wanted her dead. Her neighbors didn’t notice anything unusual on that fateful night either. By April 1977, investigators were at a dead end, and Teresita Basa’s case went cold. In August, however, Joseph Stachula, who was assigned to Basa’s case, received information from police in the suburb of Evanston about a man named Allan Showery, who was employed at Edgewater Hospital, as reported by The Boston Globe. The man had the same initials as the note found in Basa’s apartment, and he worked at the same hospital as the victim. How Evanston police got wind of Showery was unusual, and Stachula was asked to contact Dr. Jose Chua, who provided the information.
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Dr. Chua and his wife, Remibias or Remy, also emigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines, and they lived in Evanston. According to Stachula, the couple was hesitant to talk to him, as they feared authorities wouldn’t believe their story. After a bit of prodding from Stachula, Dr. Chua told his story. According to his account, one day his wife suddenly got up from their living room and walked into their bedroom. He followed her and found her lying on the bed in a trance-like state. When he questioned his wife about what was going on, he was surprised to hear her talking in a different voice in their native language of Tagalog. In an attempt to see if she was lucid, he asked her name, and she replied, “Ako Teresita Basa,” which translates to “I am Teresita Basa.”
