Elgin Crime
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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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Elgin man faces another prison term for 5th DUI arrestJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - An Elgin man who has been to prison for repeat drunken driving arrests was charged over the weekend with his fifth DUI, according to police and court records. Juan G. Mo...
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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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Restoring electronic monitoring in Kane County will cost moreJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Kane County officials charged with restoring electronic monitoring of potentially dangerous pretrial defendants all agreed what the program should look like Tuesday. It...
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Sheriff: Mom with empty bottles in car injures daughter in Elgin-area crashJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - A Genoa woman faces felony DUI charges after a one-car crash Friday near Elgin in which she was injured along with her 8-year-old daughter. Authorities said three empty...
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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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Man charged in Aurora grocery store parking lot shootingJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - A 26-year-old man has been arrested and charged with shooting at two people earlier this month in a grocery store parking lot on Aurora's near west side, according to po...
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Batavia roommates charged with coordinated burglaries of former employerJun 25, 2018 1:00 am - Two roommates have been charged with coordinated thefts from their former employer, Dunkin' Donuts in Batavia, in which they took money from a backroom while distracting...
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St. Charles Twp. man charged with theft, home-repair fraudJun 25, 2018 1:00 am - A St. Charles Township man has been charged with taking money for home repairs he failed - or perhaps never intended - to perform. Salvatore LoBello, 45, of the 5N000 bl...
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Car accident, or murder? 45 years later victim's husband goes on trialJun 23, 2018 1:00 am - In 1973, 19-year-old newlywed Noreen Kumeta Rudd was killed near Dundee and Bateman roads in Barrington Township in what authorities initially believed was an automobile...