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On April 29, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 17, he bludgeoned a 16-year old waitress, Marilyn Duncan, to death with a brick. He was tried and convicted of murder and was sentenced to death. His conviction was later overturned on appeal, with the Supreme Court of Illinois ruling that Nemke's preliminary hearing was not
Authorities apprehended 21-year-old Robert Eugene Crimo III more than eight hours after the shooting and charged him the next day with seven counts of first-degree murder. On July 27, the charges were upgraded to 21 counts of first-degree murder, [a] 48 counts of attempted murder, and 48 counts of aggravated battery.
Arena, who was 2 years old at the time of Staker's murder and 8 at the time of the retrial, testified that she remembered the events of the evening and identified Rivera as the man who had attacked Staker. After four days of deliberation, the jury acquitted him of the first-degree murder charge, but convicted him on three other murder counts. [6]
Smith's guilty verdict and sentencing brings to a close an 11-year effort by Chatham County prosecutors in the Foley murder. Judge Abbott declared a mistrial in the original 2018 trial of the ...
His trial for the murder of Reed began in Whiteside County, Illinois on October 22, 2012. He was found guilty on November 6 of charges of first-degree murder, home invasion, and residential burglary, and was sentenced on January 16, 2013, to life imprisonment for the murder, as well as 30 years for home invasion and 15 years for residential ...
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Foley has written a book, American Mother, in which she describes efforts to connect with one of the men who was convicted in the murder of her son after he was brought to the U.S. for trial.
On December 24, 1976, it was announced that Macek would stand trial for the murder of Paula Cupit, with his trial date set for January 24, 1977. [26] The trial lasted almost a month, at the end of which he was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murder charge, a sentence that was to be served concurrently with his other ...