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A Facebook Live video appears to show the moment a woman was shot in the arm by another woman on Chicago’s South Side. Police said the unnamed 27-year-old woman was shot by someone she knew Tuesday afternoon in the Parkway Gardens housing project. WGN reported that the victim was streaming on Facebook Live when she …
An Illinois woman who stabbed her 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting after taking them to church learned her fate on Friday. The Daily Herald reported that Elzbieta Plackowska, 45, was sentenced to natural life in prison for the barbaric murders of her son, Justin, and Olivia Dworakowski, a child she was babysitting …
An Illinois woman is facing murder charges after she reportedly took her deceased son’s body onto a train and placed him onto a corner seat, propped up with a backpack. New York Post reports that the incident occurred on July 1 when Jamie Jones, 29, allegedly took the boy, 6-year-old Carl Rice Jr., to the Round Lake …
The mother of Kenneka Jenkins, the 19-year-old found dead in a walk-in freezer, said Tuesday that police threatened to arrest her as she frantically searched the hotel for her missing daughter. Tereasa Martin, the late teen’s mother, made the explosive claim during an appearance on The Dr. Oz Show. She said police threatened to take her …
An Illinois man is accused of his mother’s brutal and premeditated murder after a fisherman found the incomplete remains of a dismembered body in a Chicago lagoon Saturday. Though analysts have not determined the torso and two partial legs belong to 76-year-old Gail Peck, authorities said they had enough evidence to arrest her son, 55-year-old …
An Illinois couple with nine children are accused of locking their adult daughter, who has severe cognitive disabilities, in a filthy bedroom for two years. The Chicago Tribune reported that Charles Hopkins III and his longtime girlfriend, Marinda Y. Hicks, 38, are facing multiple neglect-related charges, including endangerment of a child, criminal neglect of a person with a disability and …
Police in Plainfield, Illinois, cautioned locals to stay inside as they investigated a suspected murder-suicide that spanned two crime scenes Saturday. According to WMAQ, officers first responded to the report of a shooting at a Jewel-Osco supermarket, where they found the body of a woman shortly after noon. The victim was found in the store’s …
Lawyers for the mother of Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen found dead in a hotel walk-in freezer last month, said that photos police recently showed them leads to more questions. Attorneys Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr. said in a statement that the newest photos were “of a personal, private and indecent nature.” According to …
A Hobart, Indiana, man with a lengthy history of sexually abusing animals will be freed from federal prison without undergoing chemical castration. The Chicago Tribune reported Monday that Judge Philip Simon sentenced Michael Bessigano, 46, to time served and ordered him to undergo a year of supervised release. However, Judge Simon’s order didn’t include a chemical castration, something Bessigano …
On Friday, authorities released dozens of witness statements and police reports related to the Kenneka Jenkins case—providing additional insight into the teen’s disappearance and death. According to the Chicago Tribune, recently-released documents revealed that a hotel worker discovered Jenkins lying face down on her side with one shoe off. There was no evidence that she suffered …
Kenneka Jenkins, the 19-year-old Chicago woman found in a hotel freezer on September 10, died from hypothermia, the Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled Friday. The Chicago Tribune reported that alcohol intoxication and the use of topiramate, a drug used to treat migraines and epilepsy, were listed as contributing factors in the teen’s death. The medical examiner’s …
A group of nine teenagers allegedly attacked a 12-year-old boy and his parents at a Six Flags in Gurnee, Illinois, during a dispute over line cutting. The Chicago Tribune reported that the incident occurred Saturday night during the amusement park’s Fright Fest. Gurnee Deputy Chief Brian Smith claimed that the teens cut the line while hurling profanities, …
