DNA evidence has since led them to drop charges. In their first day of deliberations Monday, jurors in a pediatrician's murder trial apparently explored the prosecution's theory that the defendant didn't want the pregnant victim to bear his child. At 4 p.m. the jury asked the court to read back portions of the transcript. Three men also are charged. The victims are thought to be a mother and son missing since September.
Officials believe the suspect has fled the country.
Chicago police notified family members on Monday that a skull, identified as Todd's, was found in the far South Side Beaubien Forest Preserve near the Chicago Housing Authority's Altgeld Gardens development. The remains of a woman found buried in a rural canyon have been identified as those of Sandra Rosas, the wife of Los Lobos band leader Cesar Rosas. A co-defendant in the murder trial of Rae Carruth testified yesterday that he was told to follow Carruth's car before the football player's pregnant girlfriend was shot to death. After changing his identity and eluding authorities for 17 years, a man wanted in a Los Angeles bank robbery and murder has surrendered. A murder charge against a man arrested two years ago has been dropped because his constitutional rights were allegedly violated during a court hearing.