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William Morris " Flukey " Stokes (December 12, 1937 – November 19, 1986) was an American reputed mobster from Chicago, Illinois. Stokes was from the South Side and well known for his silk suits, [9] diamond rings, and flamboyant lifestyle [10] as a drug trafficking kingpin and pool hall owner. [11] Stokes immortalized himself in Chicago by ...
The murder of Hadiya Pendleton occurred on January 29, 2013. Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl from Chicago, Illinois, was shot in the back and killed while standing with friends inside Harsh Park in Kenwood, Chicago after taking her final exams. [1] As a student at King College Prep High School, she was killed only one week after performing at ...
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
Murder victims. The murder of the Grimes sisters is an unsolved double murder that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 1956, in which two sisters named Barbara and Patricia Grimes—aged 15 and 12 [ n 2] respectively—disappeared while traveling from a Brighton Park movie theater to their home in McKinley Park.
The cause of death for the 57-year-old woman whose body was found in a baggage area at Chicago's O’Hare International Airport last week has reportedly been revealed. Virginia Christine Vinton ...
Frank Capone. Salvatore " Frank " Capone ( / kəˈpoʊn /, [ 1] Italian: [salvaˈtoːre kaˈpoːne]; July 16, 1895 – April 1, 1924) was an Italian-American mobster who participated in the attempted takeover of Cicero, Illinois by the Chicago Outfit. He worked in the businesses with his brothers Al Capone and Ralph Capone .
1966–1982. 3+. Serial killer whose first murder in 1966 was of his sister-in-law in Joliet, Illinois. [ 38][ 39] John Wayne Gacy. Norwood Park. 1972–1978. 33-45. Serial killer and rapist, also known as the "Killer Clown", who killed at least 33 young men and boys.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering up to $150,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect in that case. "We are under attack here in Chicago ...