An Illinois mother and her boyfriend have been charged with murder in the death of her 8-year-old son, who was found malnourished and with bruises on his body. Investigators said that 38-year-old Joey L. Ruffin even made videos of himself punishing Markell Pierce, WLS reports. Prosecutors told a judge on Monday that Ruffin admitted hitting …
Update 6 p.m.: The Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a popular bar owner as she prepared to open the establishment Monday morning. Julius E. Burkes Jr., 47, was arrested at his home in Hammond, Indiana, and is awaiting extradition back to Illinois. Kankakee County Sheriff Mike …
Nedas Revuckas was taken to a hospital after court documents revealed he admitted killing Eliza Morales because he was upset over a Facebook Marketplace transaction with her husband.
An exurban Chicago woman was found dead Tuesday afternoon after her husband called police to say that he had seen another man chasing his wife on a home surveillance camera. The caller said he believed his wife was in danger and that the man chasing her was her ex-husband, Oswego Police said. When police arrived, …
A teenager is charged with stabbing a 30-year-old pregnant mom to death at her home in suburban Chicago. Investigators were called to the scene of an apartment fire in Downers Grove Monday and found Eliza Morales dead with multiple stab wounds, WLS reported. Investigators believe 19-year-old Nedas Revuckas knocked at Morales’ door and attacked her …
The Illinois surgeon charged with murdering an Ohio dentist and his wife earlier this month faces an extradition hearing Monday afternoon and is now charged with aggravated murder. Michael McKee, the 39-year-old ex-husband of Monique Tepe, 39, was arrested Saturday in Winnebago County, Illinois, two weeks after the murders of Tepe and her husband, Columbus …
An Illinois man has been charged with multiple counts relating to an alleged assault on his girlfriend as they were driving through Moultrie County last month. Thomas Andrew Welch, 31, was initially charged with aggravated domestic battery, aggraated unlawful restraint, and aggravated kidnapping for the early morning incident last Thursday, but the state’s attorney’s office …
A 38-year-old Illinois man has been has been arrested and charged with the murder of his 72-year-old mother. The O’Fallon Police Department said it was called for a well-being check on Terrie “Tracy” Nguyen at about 1:30 p.m. on Saturday and found her dead inside her home in the St. Louis suburb. Investigators identified her …
An 65-year-old Illinois woman was found dead, wrapped in plastic in a garbage bin in a backyard shed, and her husband has been charged with concealing her death for nearly two years. Family members living in Texas sought a welfare check for Nancy Corbin, saying they hadn’t hear from her in that time and feared …
An Illinois mother pleaded guilty last week to smothering her 7-year-old son in 2021 after a series of court motions aimed at discounting evidence against her failed. Sarah Safranek, 38, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, WIFR reported. The judge in the case, Anthony Peska, ordered that she serve 100 percent of the sentence …
A Wisconsin couple found dead in a car last month in Illinois died in a murder-suicide. The McHenry County Coroner’s Office said Brandon Dumovich, 30, shot 29-year-old Rachel Dumovich in the head and then shot himself, WIFR reported. The couple was just days away from their first wedding anniversary when they were found in their …
An Illinois jury on Wednesday convicted a sheriff’s deputy of second degree murder in the shooting death last year of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler and ended up dead when the deputy shot her in the head. The jury did not convict Sean Grayson of first degree …
