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 …
A Chicago man was charged Monday with killing his estranged wife, a year after she was found dead in the stairwell of his condo building and a week after he was sentenced to three months in jail after pleading no contest to domestic violence charges. Adam Beckerink was sentenced last Monday in a courtroom in …
A brazen stabbing attack at a suburban Chicago Chick-fil-A restaurant early Wednesday morning left one man dead and second with serious injuries. The suspect was subdued by the injured victim and his mother until police arrived and took him into custody, Oswego Police reported. Police said they were called at about 5 a.m. and arrived …
Police in a Chicago suburb are investigation allegations of sexual assault and sexual abuse that initially took place at a University of Chicago hospital in Harvey but may involve victims in several medical facilities in the area. The Harvey Police Department said the “individual of interest” in the investigation is “a while male with short …
A 35-year-old Illinois man has been charged with the murders of his parents in the home they all shared in Sycamore. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said a relative asked for a welfare check on Gary and Holly Schmidt, 60 and 59, Tuesday morning, and officers found the couple dead, apparently from blunt force trauma, …
Two people were shot and killed in a domestic violence incident this week in front of an Illinois middle school. One of the victims was the school’s assistant principal, Nerissa Lee, 46. “It is with great sadness that I announce to you that Nerissa Lee, Assistant Principal at Lincoln Middle school, lost her life in …
An Illinois man is behind bars after his wife ran out of her home and sought help from a landscaper, saying her husband was trying to kill her. Buffalo Grove police say the landscaper shielded the woman from 34-year-old Cody Romano as he tried to drag her back into their home, the Lake & McHenry …
An Illinois man has been arrested six weeks after he shot and killed his 14-year-old daughter while shooting blindingly into into a building in an attempt to kill a buzzard. David Schultheis, 34, was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm in the July 21 shooting that left Emma Schultheis dead, the Monroe County Sheriff’s …
A grand jury in Illinois has indicted a 50-year-old man in the disappearance and murder of an 11-year-old girl who vanished in Moline in 1996. Moline Police Chief Darren Gault said that Jamison Fisher has been charged with three counts of first degree murder and one count of concealment of a homicidal death in the …
A 76-year-old Illinois man has been charged with murder for gunning down his daughter-in-law because he was upset she was filing for divorce from his son. Ronald Schmidt and Christine Moyer, 45, were both attending a wedding on Friday at a Marriott hotel in the Village of Schaumburg, Schaumburg Police said. When Moyer left the …
