Des Plaines Crime
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Prosecution witness says Rudd's wife's death was no accidentJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - A former Cook County chief medical examiner testified Friday that Donnie Rudd's second wife was killed by blows to her head, disputing a defense expert's account that sh...
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Rudd's medical expert says wife died from 'internal decapitation'Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - There was another twist Thursday in the already strange saga of Donnie Rudd, a former attorney accused of killing Noreen Kumeta, his 19-year-old bride of just one month,...
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Pathologist testifies head injury, not broken neck, killed 19-year-old brideJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - Happy and beautiful. That was how Karen Mezera described her older sister Noreen Kumeta on Aug. 18, 1973, the day Noreen married Donnie Rudd, a patent attorney whom she ...
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Prosecutors in murder trial: 19-year-old bride 'a means to an end'Jun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Prosecutors in former suburban lawyer Donnie Rudd's murder trial painted him as a man who married his 19-year-old second wife Noreen Kumeta after a whirlwind courtship, ...
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Palatine shooting leads to high-speed chase through suburbs, ChicagoJun 25, 2018 1:00 am - A shooting during a car break-in in Palatine early Monday led to a high-speed police chase through the suburbs and Chicago that ended with a crash on the city's Near Wes...
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Off-duty Chicago cop charged after pointing gun outside Rosemont restaurantJun 24, 2018 1:00 am - An off-duty Chicago police officer is facing an assault charge after authorities say he pointed a gun during a confrontation outside a Rosemont restaurant early Sunday. ...
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Waukegan man charged with sexually assaulting Mount Prospect womanJun 22, 2018 1:00 am - A Waukegan man who prosecutors said told a woman to "just go with it" while sexually assaulting her in her Mount Prospect home was ordered held on $200,000 bail Friday. ...
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Man attempts to lure teenage girl in Mount ProspectJun 20, 2018 1:00 am - Mount Prospect police are warning residents to be on the lookout for a man who tried to lure a teenage girl into his car last week. The 16-year-old was walking on the 3...
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Woman charged in Des Plaines man's slaying in ChicagoJun 19, 2018 1:00 am - A 23-year-old woman faces a first-degree murder charge stemming from the fatal shooting last week of a Des Plaines man on Chicago's Northwest Side,. Aida Busatlic, of Ch...
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Trump backer to sign thieves: Just pay up to avoid prosecutionJun 15, 2018 5:30 am - Last week, with a high-stakes summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on the horizon and plenty of news coverage in the Daily Herald and elsewhere about an "Impeac...