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Catherine Suh is escorted to Cook County Jail in May 1996. Suh had fled to Hawaii after being charged in the death of her boyfriend, but she was convicted in absentia and later turned herself in.

Man who conspired with sister in infamous ‘black widow’ murder case seeks release from prison

September 5, 2023 at 6:44 a.m.

Andrew Suh was only 19 when he executed his sister's boyfriend nearly 30 years ago in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, a sensational crime that launched an international search, sparked a media...

An image from a recently released 2008 FBI video shows longtime Tylenol murder suspect James Lewis, who died in July, discussing aspects of the unsolved crime.

Videos show longtime Tylenol murder suspect James Lewis discussing the crime with undercover agents

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

One month after the death of James Lewis, the sole suspect in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders, authorities have released two old videotaped FBI interviews in which he makes what...

James Lewis, 76, walks along Cambridge Street on Aug. 22, 2022, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lewis was convicted and went to federal prison on attempted extortion charges for writing a letter to Johnson and Johnson shortly after the 1982 Tylenol murders demanding $1 million to "stop the killings." Authorities publicly named him as a "prime suspect" in the 1980s and raided his Cambridge condo in 2009, but he has never been charged with the murders.

James Lewis, long eyed as suspect in 1982 Tylenol murders, died of pulmonary embolism

August 3, 2023 at 5:22 p.m.

An autopsy has concluded that James Lewis, the lone suspect in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders, died of natural causes in his suburban Boston home last month. The Massachusetts Office...

Marilyn Mulero, who served 28 years for a 1992 arrest, speaks at a press conference at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse following a hearing on Aug. 9, 2022.

Marilyn Mulero — once sent to death row without a trial — sues Chicago after her conviction is overturned

July 24, 2023 at 7:04 p.m.

Marilyn Mulero — who was sentenced to death without a trial at age 23 — filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the city and two disgraced Chicago police detectives after...

Longtime Tylenol suspect James Lewis, who was found dead Sunday, walks down the street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last August. He was 76 at the time.

James Lewis, sole suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, has died

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

James Lewis, the lone suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, was found dead Sunday at his home in suburban Boston, making it unlikely anyone will ever be charged in connection...

Former WTMX-FM 101.9 morning host Eric Ferguson.

Lawsuit that pushed Eric Ferguson off the air at WTMX is dropped without explanation

June 28, 2023 at 6:50 a.m.

A woman who accused former WTMX-FM morning host Eric Ferguson of coercing her to perform sexual acts, then retaliating against her at work when she stopped complying, has dropped her...

Joseph Kromelis, pictured here in the late 1970s when he was in his early 30s, often hung out with a group of other Rush Street-area street peddlers and artists at the Bagel Nosh Deli in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood.

Chicago’s Walking Man wandered alone for decades. Loved ones say: ‘He observed everything. That was his adventure.’

June 11, 2023 at 8:51 a.m.

Sister Paul Wilson has seen a lot of human suffering in her nearly six decades as a nun. So when she met Joseph Kromelis, who suffered horrific burns after being...

Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 23, 2023. Cupich said all reports of abuse are reported to civil authorities and thoroughly investigated by an independent review board and added that the church deeply apologizes to abuse survivors.

Scope of clerical sex abuse against children in Illinois widens with release of new report. Abusers able to ‘hide, often in plain sight.’

May 24, 2023 at 11:04 a.m.

One survivor of clerical sex abuse recounted being kept inside her fifth grade classroom at her Woodlawn neighborhood Catholic school during recess in the 1980s, where a Carmelite religious order...

Several law enforcement officers attend a Jackie Wilson hearing on Jan. 16, 2018, when he was seeking a new trial.

Local law enforcement rallies around defendant in criminal case — because he’s one of their own

April 16, 2023 at 5:34 a.m.

Dozens of current and former law enforcement officials are rallying behind an indicted ex-Cook County prosecutor, raising money for his defense against felony charges in a wrongful conviction case and...

A scaffolding is collapsed where an accident left two men injured in the 3300 block of West Warren Boulevard in Chicago on Feb. 20, 2023.

Two men seriously injured in East Garfield Park scaffolding collapse

February 20, 2023 at 6:33 p.m.

Two men were hospitalized Monday afternoon with serious injuries after scaffolding collapsed outside a residential building in East Garfield Park, according to Chicago fire officials. The structure collapsed about 1...

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