Serial killer: Timothy Krajcir faces new charges in Kentucky
Timothy Wayne Krajcir is a convicted American serial killer from West Mahanoy Township, Pennsylvania who has confessed to killing over nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Krajcir would travel to various towns that he had no connection to, stalk his victims, and thenbreak into their homes and wait for them to arrive. In 1977, Krajcir was released from prison after serving time for [...]
Boy, 2, killed after ‘mother’s boyfriend grabbed his wrist and swung him into a wall’ while babysitting
A babysitter has been charged with murder after he allegedly slammed a toddler he was looking after into a wall. Jarrod Rudder, 24, grabbed two-year-old Michael Pulliam by the wrist and smacked the child off a wall and lamp causing multiple broken bones and a brain bleed. Rudder is the boyfriend of the child’s mother [...]
Bolingbrook man charged with aggravated child pornography
A combined local, county and state effort that tracks Internet-access information has resulted in the arrest of a 34-year-old Bolingbrook man on five counts of aggravated child pornography. Joseph A. Truschke, who appeared in Will County court Monday, was arrested Thursday at his home on the 700 block of Melissa Drive. Bolingbrook Police also seized Truschke’s [...]
Man charged with possession of child porn
A 26-year-old Carol Stream man has been charged with possession of child pornography, Wheaton police said Thursday. Wheaton police said in a news release that Mitchell E. Dunnam, 26, of Gold Finch Court in Carol Stream, turned himself in at the Wheaton Police Station on a warrant issued in DuPage County court. Dunnam has been [...]
Nanny admits stealing $600 cash from children’s wallets
A nanny in the U.S has been arrested after she stole $600 from children she was looking after. Alexandra M. Donohue, 22, was arrested April 3 and charged with theft after she was questioned by police in Chicago. Donohue was employed as a nanny for a family in the affluent neighborhood of Northbrook, according to [...]
Man tried to run wife, children off the road
A Hills man is accused of trying to run his wife and children off the road after an argument earlier this month. According to Iowa City police criminal complaints, 29-year-old Brian J. Laschke and his wife got into an argument in Hills at 6:30 p.m. March 17. Police said the argument escalated and Laschke took [...]
2 face felony charges for making meth
A suspicious fire in Galva, Ill., has resulted in the arrest of two people on drug-related charges. Mandy Lynn Pratt, 32, and Joseph William McGahey, 28, were each charged with one count of aggravated participation in meth production in connection with a Feb. 21 fire at 505 SE 4th Ave. Both were arrested this week [...]
Science teacher, 32, ‘sexted explicit photos of herself to 15-year-old student’
An Illinois science teacher has been charged with giving one of her students an explicit anatomy lesson. Kelly K. Miller, 32, of West Dundee, was accused Tuesday been accused of sexting photos of herself to a 15-year-old student. Ms Miller, a former teacher at East Aurora High School, was charged with sexual exploitation of a [...]
Howard Morgan, Black Off-Duty Cop Shot 28 Times By White Chicago Officers, Faces Sentencing
Howard Morgan, a former Chicago Police Officer before spending 13 years as a Railroad Police Officer for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, pulled over on his way home the morning of February 21, 2005, because he saw a police car behind him and was letting it pass. To Mr. Morgan’s surprise, he discovered that [...]
Grayslake police chief arrested for DUI after crash in Kenosha
The Grayslake police chief was charged with DUI after he and his wife were involved in a crash while returning from a restaurant just over the state line in Wisconsin, authorities say. Matt McCutcheon was turning onto Route 45 in Silver Lake when he struck a car on the highway around 10 p.m. Friday, according [...]
‘Satan did it’: Son, 54, found covered in blood after ‘stabbing elderly MOTHER to death at their home’
A man accused of stabbing his mother to death has blamed Satan for killing her, authorities said. Joseph L Nerone, 54, was ordered to under go psychological testing after he was arrested at his home on Friday ‘covered in blood’. A neighbour discovered Nerone and the body of his elderly mother Elaine Nerone, 84, at [...]
Cops: Child porn found on Des Plaines man’s computers
A 49-year-old Des Plaines man has been charged with nine counts of aggravated child pornography after the images were discovered on his computers during a sexual abuse investigation involving his relatives. Last summer, Des Plaines detectives investigated an alleged aggravated criminal sexual abuse case involving James Brewer, of the 100 block of Village Court, and [...]