An Illinois man has been charged with first degree murder after allegedly shooting a man he didn’t know multiple times over a pizza and bar tab. The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office said the shooting took place at about 8:40 a.m. at Rosie O’Reilly’s in unincorporated Wheaton, a western suburb of Chicago. The sheriff’s department …
A suburban Chicago man pleaded guilty but mentally ill last week to drowning his three young children, apparently because he was angry with his estranged wife. Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said that Jason Karels, 36, will be sentenced to life without parole early next year, The Asssociated Press reported. Round Lake Beach police …
One of the daughters was pregnant.
A body has been recovered from the Illinois retention pond where investigators earlier pulled a Nissan Rogue belonging to a teen girl who vanished earlier this month on her way to a work holiday party. Authorities pulled a vehicle belonging to 17-year-old Brissa Romana on Monday, but there was no sign of the missing girl, …
Brissa Romero disappeared while on her way to a work holiday party earlier this month.
The boy’s 32-year-old mother was seriously injured in the attack.
An Illinois woman is charged with intentionally running over her boyfriend in her car, leaving him with significant injuries. Emily Mora, 27, has been charged with aggravated domestic battery, aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, two counts of domestic battery, two counts of driving under the influence of alcohol, and operating an uninsured motor vehicle, …
Prosectutors also released details of the investigation that led them to the ex-boyfriend, the gunman, and the getaway car driver.
Two persons of interest in the murders of an Illinois family of four were found shot inside a vehicle after a chase and crash in Oklahoma, one of them fatally. Alberto Rolon and Zoraida Bartolomei, both in their 30s, and their two children, 10-year-old Adriel and 7-year-old Diego, were found shot to death in their …
An Illinois woman was arrested earlier this month after she allegedly accused her neighbors of practicing witchcraft and lit fire at their front door using rubbing alcohol. Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Lillian Lewis said that 38-year-old Kimberley S. Brown was charged with residential arson and aggravated battery of a police officer, the Lake and …
A 10-year-old boy found dead in a garbage can last month at his mother’s house died from a gunshot wound. Rock Island County coroner Brian Gustafson released the information on Friday in a preliminary autopsy report for Zion Staples, according to WQAD. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Rock Island police found the boy dead in his …
An Illinois judge sentenced a former “Family Feud” contestant, who joked on the show he regretted marrying his wife, to life without parole last week in a murder a prosecutor called the most “pre-meditated crime I’ve ever seen.” Timothy Bliefnick, 39, was convicted in June of killing 41-year-old Rebecca Bliefnick, his estranged wife, in February, …
