Following his conviction in September, an Illinois man learned this week that he would spend five years behind bars for the years-long sexual abuse of an underage family member. According to the Northwest Herald, 54-year-old David Tapley had been a deacon at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Cary, where he also served as …
Authorities in Illinois say a fellow law enforcement officer is facing criminal charges related to the sexual assault of two juveniles. According to the New York Post, one of the alleged victims is the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend. Police say 43-year-old Luke Hatzipetros entered the girl’s bedroom last month and touched her inappropriately at …
Authorities in Illinois are pursuing criminal charges against a woman accused of hiding her teen daughter’s medical condition from others in the family, resulting in the girl’s death last month. According to Fox News, the 14-year-old was diagnosed with diabetes in 2013. Prosecutors claim Amber Hampshire was aware of the girl’s diagnosis but did not …
Authorities in Illinois say a man was arrested on suspicion of killing his own mother and dumping her body in an alley earlier this week. According to the New York Post, 25-year-old Robert Wallace is accused of stabbing and beating the victim to death before placing her mortally injured body in a trash can near …
More than a year after an intoxicated 19-year-old girl was found dead in the walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Chicago, her family has filed a negligence suit for $50 million against the hotel. As the U.K. Daily Mail reported, the suit was filed on Tuesday and introduces new allegations stemming from an …
Authorities in Illinois are asking for the public’s help in locating a 16-year-old girl who was last seen leaving her high school earlier this month. In a Facebook post, the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office said investigators believe Amanda Perrier is currently in Wisconsin. Perrier was reportedly last seen leaving York High School in Elmhurst at around 10 …
Authorities in Illinois say an 80-year-old man is dead and his 50-year-old son is in custody accused of killing him. According to the Chicago Post-Tribune, Michael Yakubec was at St. Mary Medical Center in Chicago in a waiting room after John Yakubec was admitted with serious injuries. Michael Yakubec reportedly faced questions at that time …
Newly-released home surveillance and dashcam footage apparently show an off-duty Illinois police sergeant shooting an unarmed autistic man in a 2017 incident that law enforcement initially portrayed as an armed confrontation. The Guardian reported that footage released Tuesday by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) shows Chicago police Seargent Khalil Muhammad shooting then-18-year-old Ricky Hayes in front …
Authorities said an Illinois mother was killed Monday evening when a drunk driver mowed her down as she pushed a broken-down vehicle off the road. WLS reported that Aries Cobian, 29, and her cousin were pushing a disabled Oldsmobile down a road in Streamwood when Hinigo Olvera, 67, rear-ended Cobian, pinning her between the two vehicles. A …
Authorities are investigating after a masked gunman fatally shot two men in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood in a 36-hour period. The Chicago Tribune reported Eliyahu Moscowitz, 24, was shot to death Monday evening on the 1100 block of West Lunt. His death came a day after Douglass Watts, 73, was reportedly shot and killed while walking his …
Authorities in Illinois have arrested a man for placing his toddler inside of a locked trunk outside of a business in Norridge earlier this month. According to the New York Post, 28-year-old Boguslaw Matlak is facing a misdemeanor count of child endangerment over what he claimed was a closely controlled experiment. He defended his actions …
A discarded cigarette reportedly helped police in Illinois identify a suspect in the 2009 stabbing death of a young mother whose body was found in her home. According to The News-Gazette, Michael Henslick, 30, was charged with the November 2, 2009, murder of Holly Cassano, 22, whose body was discovered by her mother in their home in …
