Vernon Hills Crime
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Prosecutor: Beach Park man beat wife, stepson to death with baseball batNov 30, 2015 12:00 am - A Beach Park man is being held in Lake County jail on $5 million bail after, authorities say, he used an aluminum bat to bludgeon his wife and her son to death during an...
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Sheriff investigating 'suspicious deaths' of Beach Park mother, sonNov 29, 2015 12:00 am - A person of interest is in custody in connection with what Lake County sheriff's officials are calling the "suspicious deaths" of a Beach Park woman and her teenage son....
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Video: Walk the Gliniewicz crime sceneNov 24, 2015 4:00 am - At first, investigators didn't want to believe that the revered Fox Lake police Lt. Charles "Joe" Gliniewicz killed himself. They used machetes, weed wackers and their ...
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Special report: How Fox Lake cop went from hero to crooked copNov 23, 2015 4:00 am - Fabricating an elaborate crime scene as a police-training exercise for the Explorer Post he directs, Fox Lake police Lt. Charles “Joe” Gliniewicz barks orders to the you...
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Special Report: Gliniewicz's final hours as he staged his 'hero' cop deathNov 22, 2015 5:00 am - Wedging the muzzle of his police pistol under the upper left side of his bulletproof vest, Fox Lake police Lt. Charles “Joe” Gliniewicz pulls the trigger as a final step...
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$8,000 reward offered in fatal Lake County hit-and-runNov 22, 2015 12:00 am - Thanks to money raised through an online fundraiser, authorities are offering an $8,000 reward to find the person responsible for a hit-and-run crash that killed a Lake ...
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Gliniewicz bank accounts remain frozen; widow gets $4,187Nov 20, 2015 12:00 am - A freeze order remains in place on the personal bank accounts of the wife of disgraced former Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz. But in an order prepared ea...
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How Fox Lake plans to avoid a Gliniewicz repeatNov 19, 2015 4:30 am - Fox Lake police personnel will get structured performance evaluations and be given more training opportunities, and the department will strengthen its accountability and...
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Gliniewicz wife's accounts frozen in embezzlement caseNov 17, 2015 12:00 am - The Lake County state's attorney's office has frozen the personal and financial bank accounts of Melodie Gliniewicz, the wife of disgraced former Fox Lake police Lt. Cha...
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Fox Lake police union backs village, police administrationNov 17, 2015 12:00 am - Fox Lake police officers said they felt "sadness and extreme disappointment" by the actions of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz but have hope for the future under changes m...