Berwyn Police Charge Suspect In Murder Of Elderly Couple
Roger Scoby faces two counts of first-degree murder, Berwyn police announced at a Friday news conference.
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Roger Scoby faces two counts of first-degree murder, Berwyn police announced at a Friday news conference.
A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder in the slayings of four men at a restaurant in the South Shore neighborhood last week.
Chicago police said Lionel Parks, of Roseland, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the Dec. 17 shooting at a 1 1/2-story home in the 100 block of West 105th Street.
The Cook County Sheriff's office said it has not revoked a job offer to the wife of indicted Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, but only put the hiring on hold to make sure it's a safe fit.
The coroner's office ruled Kelcey T. Washington's death as a homicide.
Authorities say the investigation into the slayings of two northern Indiana girls has entered a new phase with fewer investigators actively working on the nearly six-week-old case.
A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 slaying of his parents.
Devon Thomas has been charged with the murder of his 4-month-old daughter, following an attack on his pregnant fiancé and 3-year-old son last Halloween that also left the boy dead.
Indiana investigators served a search warrant to the owner of the property where the bodies of two teens were found.
An American woman convicted in her mother's "suitcase murder" in Indonesia has given custody of her young daughter to an Australian woman until her release from prison.
Ehab Qasem, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of murder on March 8 before Judge Neil J. Linehan at the Bridgeview courthouse, according to the Cook County court records.
Judge Susan Kennedy Sullivan ruled that without the consent of both parents, the court can't grant guardianship of Estelle "Stella" Schaefer to her grandmother, Kia Walker, because it doesn't have jurisdiction over a child born and raised behind bars in Indonesia, said Michael Goldberg, Walker's attorney.
Police investigating the killing of two teenage girls in northwestern Indiana say they have interviewed more than 300 people and are following up on thousands of tips.
Leandre Evans allegedly shot a woman and her boyfriend to death on Super Bowl Sunday and then left the scene in an Uber.
Santo Lozoya and Jose Martinez were arrested and ordered held in lieu of $2 million bail.
Police said the shooting did not appear to be random, and at least one of the victims has had several contacts with police.
In February, Drew Peterson was transferred from the Menard Correctional Center to a high-security federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The grandfather of one of the two teenage girls murdered in Delphi, Indiana last month spoke publicly Thursday morning for the first time since the bodies were found in a wooded area.
The family of a 26-year-old man who died when his girlfriend allegedly forced him to drink bleach said they "hope justice is served" and she "rots in jail."
A lawyer for seven Chicago cops told a federal jury on Wednesday that Deon Patrick's certificate of innocence is "not even worth the paper that it's printed on."
Yasmine Elder poured bleach down the throat of Darrius Ellis during a fight early Monday and made him swallow it, authorities said.
Attorneys for two men convicted of the 1989 murder of a retired Chicago police sergeant's wife were headed to court Wednesday, seeking to prove their innocence based on DNA evidence and allegations of police torture.
A reputed drug dealer was jailed on a $1 million bond Tuesday in a 2015 Christmas Day murder during an argument over turf sales in Englewood.
Freedom lasted a matter of moments for a South Side man who beat a murder charge and was released on bond from the Cook County Jail -- only to be gunned down less than a mile away.
Charges were announced Monday in the murder of a Northbrook real estate attorney found dead in his law office last December.
