McHenry County Crime
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Degorski being prepared for prison transferOct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Twenty-four hours after receiving a life sentence, James Degorski's daily routine remains pretty much the same as it was 24 hours before he learned of his sentence. Conv...
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Police beatOct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Palatine official wants closure on Brown's rewardOct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Haunted by the murder of seven restaurant workers on a cold January night in 1993, dozens of people donated money in an effort to catch the killers and put a community a...
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Most jurors wanted the death penaltyOct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - The first thing the jurors did in the deliberation room Tuesday was take a vote. Did James Degorski deserve to die for killing seven people in Brown's Chicken & Pasta in...
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Degorski's new life: Controlled, daunting, dangerousOct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Eighteen hours a day in a 7-by-10 cell with a roommate and one toilet. This is life in prison. A jury determined Tuesday that James Degorski will spend the rest of his l...
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Victim's mom: "He deserved to lose his life, too"Oct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Jennifer Ehlenfeldt Shilling said she was shocked and bewildered when police long ago revealed the grisly details of how her parents, Richard and Lynn Ehlenfeldt, were b...
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Brown's jury spares James Degorski's lifeOct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Ten jurors wanted James Degorski to forfeit his life for murdering seven workers at a Palatine Brown's Chicken and Pasta on Jan. 8, 1993. Two disagreed. In the end, the...
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Police beatOct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Palatine officials see end to dark chapter in village historyOct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - James Degorski's life sentence slams the book shut on a dark chapter in Palatine's history, one that's reverberated through the victims' families, the police and the res...
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Police beatOct 19, 2009 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.