Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire A man who called police in Denver in 2015 to confess to killing his half-sister, Samantha Welch, and her friend, Celia Cruz Reyes, on the Northwest Side in 2014, has been convicted of murder. Adam Ruiz, 23, was found guilty of two counts of murder on Wednesday by a … Read more →

By REEMA AMIN Chicago Sun-Times Wire A 22-year-old man will appear in court Saturday after confessing to strangling Celia Cruz Reyes and Samantha Welch, one of whom was his sister, at a Northwest Side Kelvyn Park neighborhood home last October before setting the house on fire, authorities said. Adam Ruiz, whose last known address was … Read more →