Inverness Crime
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Two years in prison for trucker who killed trooperJan 22, 2016 12:00 am - The truck driver who killed a state trooper from Vernon Hills in a 2013 crash on the Tri-State Tollway pleaded guilty to three charges Friday in a Skokie courtroom and w...
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Disbarred attorney pleads not guilty to 1973 Barrington Township murderJan 22, 2016 12:00 am - A disbarred former Northwest suburban attorney on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges he murdered his wife in 1973, less than a month after their marriage. Donnie Rudd...
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3 years in prison for attack on Elgin joggerJan 21, 2016 12:00 am - A 22-year-old homeless man was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to attacking a female jogger in Elgin in 2015. Cody Sarantakos of Elgin ...
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Medical treatments ordered for disbarred attorney charged in 1973 murderJan 12, 2016 12:00 am - A disbarred Northwest suburban attorney has been indicted on murder charges in the 1973 death of his teenage wife less than a month after their marriage. Donnie Rudd, 7...
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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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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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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...