Wheeling Crime
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Jail officials say James Degorski is 'model' inmateOct 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Cook County jail inmates often assault staff and each other, flood their cells and set fires, sometimes on a daily basis, but that's not the case with James Degorski, wh...
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Dark clouds lifts for innocent man eyed in Brown's Chicken killingsOct 03, 2009 11:00 pm - With two men now convicted in the Brown's Chicken murders, a dark cloud over Celso Morales has finally vanished. Like more than a dozen people pursued as possible suspec...
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Ehlenfeldt daughter: Brown's killing 'small and cowardly'Oct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - The fifth week of James Degorski's capital murder trial concluded with emotional testimony from Joy Ehlenfeldt, daughter of Lynn and Richard Ehlenfeldt, owners of the Pa...
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Victims' families confront convicted killer James DegorskiOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - As the jury began hearing testimony in the sentencing phase of James Degorski's capital murder trial Thursday, prosecutors urged them to take the measure of the man and ...
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Statements from Brown's victims familiesOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - The following are excerpts of the written statements read in court Thursday by six relatives of the Palatine Brown's Chicken & Pasta murder victims. "You broke our heart...
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Quick capital murder verdicts not rare, even without scientific evidenceSep 30, 2009 11:00 pm - It took 16 years for James Degorski's past to catch up with him. A Cook County jury decided that was long enough. Members took about 90 minutes - over lunch - to pick a ...
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Palatine councilman turns attention toward paying rewardSep 30, 2009 11:00 pm - The Palatine Police Department - drowning in a pile of leads - accepted all the help it could get in the days after the slayings of seven workers at the Brown's Chicken ...
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Degorski guilty of Brown's Chicken murdersSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Guilty, at last. More than 16 years ago, prosecutors say Jim Degorski walked into Richard and Lynn Ehlenfeldt's Palatine restaurant with a pocket full of bullets and a t...
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Palatine mayors past and present express reliefSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Former Mayor Rita Mullins sums up the pent-up emotions of an entire community in a single word Tuesday: relief. For more than 16 years, Palatine had been struggling to f...
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Verdict brings closure to Palatine police officersSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - For nine years, former Palatine Police Chief Jerry Bratcher watched as the unsolved murders of seven people at Brown's Chicken & Pasta cast a cloud over his department. ...