When the first gunshot rang out that night 14 years ago inside the Palatine Brown's Chicken & Pasta, Juan Luna says, he assured the seven people inside that they would be fine if they obeyed his orders. "Everyone get down on the floor and no one wil...

At 17, Anne Lockett says she promised her then-boyfriend and his high school pal she would never implicate them in the Brown's Chicken murders. Though her information could have led to an arrest in the high-profile case, Lockett kept quiet. And, for...

What's new:Former Degorski friend Eileen Bakalla testifies about waiting nine years to talk to police about the murders. What's next: More prosecution witnesses. From the moment a teenage Eileen Bakalla met classmate Juan Luna, he rubbed he...

What's new:Former Jim Degorski friend Eileen Bakalla testifies about waiting nine years to talk to police about the murders. What's next:More prosecution witnesses From the moment a teenage Eileen Bakalla met classmate Juan Luna, he rubbed ...

What's new:Former Degorski friend Eileen Bakalla testifies about waiting nine years to talk to police about the murders. What's next:More prosecution witnesses. From the moment a teenage Eileen Bakalla met classmate Juan Luna, he rubbed her...

From the moment a teenage Eileen Bakalla met Juan Luna, he rubbed her the wrong way. "I just didn't like him," she testified Tuesday afternoon as one of the prosecution's star witnesses in the murder trial against Luna for the 1993 Brown's Chicken ...

The evidence that links Juan Luna to the 1993 Brown's Chicken slayings sat frozen in a crime lab freezer for a year before investigators realized it could yield clues in the case, a laboratory scientist testified today. Under questioning of prosecut...

Fourteen years after the Brown's Chicken murders stunned an entire region, a jury finally is being asked to hold someone accountable for the slayings of seven people. The enormous weight of the highly publicized case now hinges upon the panel's trus...

What's new: Trial begins with opening statements. Jurors view gruesome crime scene video. What's next: Witness testimony continues Monday. Fourteen years after the Brown's Chicken murders stunned an entire region, a jury finally is being asked to ho...

An arduous task lies ahead of Juan Luna's defense team as opening statements begin today in the Brown's Chicken murder trial. Luna's attorneys must confront DNA evidence, horrific crime scene photographs and a detailed video confession -- none of w...