A new class-action lawsuit has accused a renowned youth volleyball coach of using his position to rape at least six teen girls “hundreds” of times over a 30-year span. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, a 72-page complaint stated that Rick Butler, who had “the ability to place the teenage girls he coaches at top college volleyball programs,” …
Police in Chicago, Illinois, have reportedly taken someone into custody hours after the battered body of a 2-year-old boy was found stuffed in a trash bag. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the slain toddler as Mateo Garcia Aguayo. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Aguayo was found unresponsive on the third-floor of his apartment …
As the man accused of fatally shooting a police commander earlier this week left his first court hearing on Thursday, video from inside a Cook County, Illinois, jail reportedly shows inmates clapping for him. According to the Chicago Tribune, Shomari Legghette, 44, was arriving from court where he faced charges for the shooting death Chicago police …
A Joliet, Illinois, woman involved in the robbery and murder of two men is set to be paroled this month after serving less than four years in prison. According to the Joliet Patch, Alisa Massaro plead guilty to robbery in connection with the January 2013 murders of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22. In turn, the …
The FBI released surveillance footage Friday that appears to show a man abducting a little girl in broad daylight from a Chicago suburb. According to a statement from the agency, Bryan Protho, 38, allegedly snatched the child on December 20 as she walked toward 153rd Street and Burnham Avenue in Calumet City, Illinois, and loaded …
An Illinois father was arrested last week for allegedly beating his disabled adult son with a bat during a dispute on Christmas Eve. According to the Chicago Tribune, Jorge L. Montanez, 50, is facing charges for an attack that has left his 24-year-old son hospitalized. Prosecutors said that Montanez demanded an apology from his son for …
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 …
