Wheeling Crime
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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. ...
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Key points of the prosecution caseSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - • Incriminating statements to friends. High school friends Eileen Bakalla and Anne Lockett England testified James Degorski and Juan Luna told them about the murders in ...
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Degorski eligible for death penalty in Brown's Chicken murdersSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - The jury that convicted James Degorski of seven counts of first degree murder in the 1993 slayings of seven workers at a Palatine Brown's Chicken & Pasta found him eligi...
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Jury returns to decide on death penaltySep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - The same jury that convicted James Degorski of capital murder will reconvene Wednesday to decide whether he should be sentenced to death. The six man, six woman jury fir...
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Key points of the defense caseSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - • Lack of evidence. No physical evidence linked Degorski to the scene. Authorities linked Degorski's co-defendant Juan Luna to the crime through his DNA. • Unreliable wi...
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Jury deliberating Degorski eligibility for deathSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Following a 90-minute hearing this morning, the jury that convicted James Degorski of seven counts of first degree murder in the 1993 slayings of seven workers at a Pala...
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Key points in the Degorski trialSep 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Throughout James Degorski's capital murder trial for the 1993 slayings of seven workers at a Palatine Brown's Chicken & Pasta, the defense and prosecution focused on sev...
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Both sides make final pitch to Degorski jurySep 28, 2009 11:00 pm - When they adjourn behind closed doors later this afternoon, the 12 strangers who hold James Degorski's fate in their hands will consider contrasting portraits of the man...
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Jury deliberated 11 hours in first Brown's trialSep 28, 2009 11:00 pm - A jury that decided the fate of the first man tried for the Brown's Chicken murders deliberated 11 hours over two days before convicting him. Juan Luna's 14-day trial co...