Barrington Hills Crime
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Lake County sheriff warns of ruse burglariesDec 26, 2015 12:00 am - Southern Lake County has seen an increase in ruse burglaries over the past two months, the Lake County sheriff's office said Saturday in an alert. In a ruse burglary, t...
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Sheriff identifies 'people of interest' in Lake County shootingDec 25, 2015 3:00 pm - Lake County Sheriff's detectives have identified "more than one" person of interest in an early Christmas morning shooting near Lake Bluff that injured two men and a wom...
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'Cold and calculated' attorney accused of killing wife in 1973 held on $4 million bailDec 24, 2015 2:02 pm - Bail has been set at $4 million for a former Northwest suburban attorney charged with the 1973 murder of his wife. Donnie Rudd, 73, of Sugar Land, Texas, attended Thursd...
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Cook County sheriff says too many mentally ill in jailDec 23, 2015 12:00 am - Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, as part of his campaign to reduce what he calls unjust incarceration of the poor and mentally ill, said in a news release Wednesday that pr...
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A look back at Lake County criminal courts in 2015Dec 21, 2015 5:00 am - The Lake County courthouse saw its fair share of news conferences in 2015. Cases involving Melissa Calusinski, Jorge Torrez and Michael Vucic all captured headlines in ...
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Rudd's family history complex before wife's deathDec 21, 2015 12:00 am - Murder suspect Donnie Rudd's weekslong marriage to 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta in the summer of 1973 was neither the beginning nor the end of the disbarred attorney's comp...
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How police concluded 42-year-old Barrington Twp. case was murderDec 21, 2015 12:00 am - Less than a month after her August 1973 wedding to patent attorney Donnie Rudd, 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta Rudd was dead, found lying across her husband's lap in their ca...
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Gang member charged after drug raid near Round LakeDec 18, 2015 12:00 am - A documented gang member was arrested and charged after he was caught destroying drug evidence during a search warrant, Lake County sheriff's officials said Friday. Wil...
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1973 Barrington Twp. murder: Ex-attorney arrested in TexasDec 18, 2015 12:00 am - A former Northwest suburban attorney, school board member and Hoffman Estates plan commissioner was arrested in Texas Thursday and is being charged with murder in connec...
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Politicians' falls from grace highlight the year in courts and crimeDec 17, 2015 10:00 pm - For several prominent suburban leaders, 2015 was marked by spectacular falls from grace. But none received more attention than the arrest of retired U.S. House Speaker D...