By SAM CHARLES, MITCH DUDEK and JON SEIDEL Chicago Sun-Times It began as a morbid sexual fantasy, hatched online between a pair of men working for two of the world’s most prestigious universities: Let’s kill. And then kill each other. But the plan went sideways, ending with the gruesome death of an innocent young man, …
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By SAM CHARLES Chicago Sun-Times and ASSOCIATED PRESS Wyndham Lathem, the Northwestern professor suspected of murder, dropped off his alleged accomplice, Andrew Warren, at a San Francisco police station before Lathem turned himself in to federal authorities in Oakland on Friday, police told the Chicago Sun-Times. They were the subjects of a nationwide manhunt after …
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By JEFF MAYES Homicide Watch Chicago At least 14 people were killed last week as Chicago passed the 400-homicide mark for the year nearly a week ahead of last year’s pace, when the homicides numbers were the highest in two decades. The victims included a mother shot while walking with her young son, and a …
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By JORDAN OWEN and ANDY GRIMM Chicago Sun-Times Just days after a 26-year-old Trenton H. James Cornell-Duranleau was found stabbed to death inside Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem’s luxe River North apartment, a nationwide manhunt for the microbiologist has begun. A Cook County judge on Monday issued arrest warrants for Lathem, 42; and Andrew Warren, …
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