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judge joan humphrey lefkow came home around 6 p.m. last night and found two bodies in the basement of her house. officials identified them as that of her husband, michael, and mother, donna.
"the chicago police department is presently conducting a death investigation at the residence of judge lefkow. the judge came home at around 6 o'clock, she is fine. she's currently talking to chicago police... there's not much more i can tell you at this point. there's two victims, they're not being identified at this point pending notification," said police spokesman pat camden, last night during a news conference.
police knew who the victims were, because camden stumbled in his speech. the judge was nowhere to be seen. that was rather odd, but unsurprising.
immediately everyone thought the whodunit responsible was white supremacist matthew hale. who else wanted her dead last year? when he showed up at court for an unrelated lawsuit in december of 2003 (for trademark infringement for using the world church of the creator as the name of his organization), the u.s. attorney's office arrested and charged him for solicitation for the murder of judge lefkow. he was convicted in april, 2004. his sentencing would have been next month.
hale's relatives decry the accusations that he could be responsible because he was in prison all this time.
even though hale himself didn't pull strings from behind bars and got someone else to complete the threat, it's still a stunningly tragic story.
all that lefkow did was order him to start calling his organization by another name. someone else had that name already. hale is entitled to his free speech rights, but wouldn't it be deserving if he was indeed found guilty in this case?
so tricky.
there are other details about this case that i won't write about because personally, i will let people like hale howl all they want - they're entitled to that. i just won't listen because it's a waste of my time.
investigators are combing through the lefkows' past cases (michael was also a lawyer) to see who might be responsible. they're not ruling out hale, or daniel salley, who also turned vile toward joan lefkow after she ruled against him in his case.
the night of the murders, neighbors expressed concern, "i hope this isn't a result of any decision she made on the bench." ¶ 3/01/2005 03:19:00 PM
judge joan humphrey lefkow came home around 6 p.m. last night and found two bodies in the basement of her house. officials identified them as that of her husband, michael, and mother, donna.
"the chicago police department is presently conducting a death investigation at the residence of judge lefkow. the judge came home at around 6 o'clock, she is fine. she's currently talking to chicago police... there's not much more i can tell you at this point. there's two victims, they're not being identified at this point pending notification," said police spokesman pat camden, last night during a news conference.
police knew who the victims were, because camden stumbled in his speech. the judge was nowhere to be seen. that was rather odd, but unsurprising.
immediately everyone thought the whodunit responsible was white supremacist matthew hale. who else wanted her dead last year? when he showed up at court for an unrelated lawsuit in december of 2003 (for trademark infringement for using the world church of the creator as the name of his organization), the u.s. attorney's office arrested and charged him for solicitation for the murder of judge lefkow. he was convicted in april, 2004. his sentencing would have been next month.
hale's relatives decry the accusations that he could be responsible because he was in prison all this time.
even though hale himself didn't pull strings from behind bars and got someone else to complete the threat, it's still a stunningly tragic story.
all that lefkow did was order him to start calling his organization by another name. someone else had that name already. hale is entitled to his free speech rights, but wouldn't it be deserving if he was indeed found guilty in this case?
so tricky.
there are other details about this case that i won't write about because personally, i will let people like hale howl all they want - they're entitled to that. i just won't listen because it's a waste of my time.
investigators are combing through the lefkows' past cases (michael was also a lawyer) to see who might be responsible. they're not ruling out hale, or daniel salley, who also turned vile toward joan lefkow after she ruled against him in his case.
the night of the murders, neighbors expressed concern, "i hope this isn't a result of any decision she made on the bench." ¶ 3/01/2005 03:19:00 PM
