Des Plaines Crime
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Defense rests in 2nd Brown's Chicken murder trialSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - The defense in James Degorski's capital murder trial rested on Tuesday. It did so quietly, with lead defense attorney Mark Levitt presenting to jurors testimony from a ...
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Witnesses describe search for Brown's murder weaponSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - The fourth week of James Degorski's capital murder trial began Monday with testimony from members of an aquatic recovery unit who searched the Fox River for the gun auth...
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Palatine police chief testifies to leaks in Brown's Chicken investigationSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - The third week of James Degorski's capital murder trial concluded quietly Thursday. Palatine Police Chief John Koziol admitted that the killings of seven people in a Bro...
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Ex-Brown's worker accuses police of pressuring false confessionSep 16, 2009 11:00 pm - For years, Casey Haefs struggled with survivor's guilt for not being there that fateful night in 1993 when her two bosses and five co-workers were slain at the Palatine ...
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Police beatSep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Brown's prosecution strategy debatedSep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - He uttered only one recorded incriminating word. Still, prosecutors fought hard to ensure one day a jury could hear James Degorski's videotaped police statement in which...
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Degorski defense points to false confessionSep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - After James Degorski made a video statement confessing his involvement in the Brown's Chicken murders, he went to Cook County Jail. After John Simonek made a video stat...
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Witness: Degorski asked if God would forgive murderSep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - On the eighth day of James Degorski's capital murder trial, the prosecution rested. In its attempt to prove Degorski killed seven people at a Palatine Brown's Chicken & ...
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Photos, videotape and ex-girlfriend's testimony focus of Degorski trialSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Pictures told the story of the infamous Brown's Chicken murders last week as James Degorski's capital murder trial continued. Grim crime scene photographs and a brief bu...
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Police beatSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.