Megan Crepeau – Page 41

Andrew Warren arrives at a police station escorted by Chicago police Aug. 18, 2017, in Chicago. Warren, an Oxford University financial officer, and Wyndham Lathem, a Northwestern University professor, have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau, a Michigan native who had been working in Chicago.

Jury in trial of former Northwestern professor charged in boyfriend’s murder views gruesome crime scene video as key witness looms

September 28, 2021 at 5:34 p.m.

The crime scene video began with only hints at the terrors to come. Drops of blood on white kitchen tile. Smears of red around the bedroom doorknob. Then, through the...

Andrew Warren arrives at a police station escorted by Chicago police, Aug. 18, 2017, in Chicago.

Former Northwestern professor’s defense blames ex-codefendant for alleged sexual thrill-kill

September 28, 2021 at 1:34 p.m.

Four years after an acclaimed Northwestern microbiologist was charged in one of the most sordid cases in recent Chicago memory — the vicious stabbing of his 26-year-old boyfriend in a...

R. Kelly turns himself in at 1st District police headquarters in Chicago on Feb. 22, 2019.

In federal courtroom far from his hometown, remnants of R. Kelly’s superstardom evaporate in sweeping racketeering, sex crimes conviction

September 27, 2021 at 7:34 p.m.

The jury deliberated for about nine hours beginning Friday before reaching the verdict in the case, which had attracted national media attention and played out over the past six weeks...

In this Aug. 19, 2017, photo, Wyndham Lathem arrives at a Chicago police station, escorted by police. The former Northwestern University professor is set to stand trial in the stabbing death of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau.

Jury to hear bizarre case of former Northwestern professor accused of sexual thrill-killing

September 27, 2021 at 7:57 a.m.

The accusations tell a sordid tale that seems straight from a supermarket tabloid: The story of the genius scientist who stabbed his boyfriend to death as part of a violent...

Jurors weigh complex racketeering case against R. Kelly in New York as the superstar singer awaits his legal fate

September 26, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

For six weeks, while attorneys sparred and accusers gave emotional testimony about the disgraced R&B superstar at the defense table, the jurors who will determine R. Kelly's fate have watched...

Jury at R. Kelly’s federal racketeering trial in New York begins deliberating, will resume next week

September 24, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

R. Kelly's fate is now in the hands of the jury at his federal trial in New York. After a six-week trial featuring the testimony of 50 witnesses and three...

R. Kelly defense, federal prosecutors spar over whether superstar singer’s sex habits were legal spoils of fame or predatory criminal conspiracy

September 23, 2021 at 7:51 p.m.

R&B superstar R. Kelly was an international sex symbol known for his playboy lifestyle, but his relationships were consensual and the women who lined up to testify that he sexually...

Escape charge dropped in plea deal for man who allegedly used identity swap to walk out of Cook County Jail

September 26, 2021 at 4:29 p.m.

The man who sparked a weeklong search last year after allegedly swapping identities with a fellow detainee so he could walk out of Cook County Jail pleaded guilty to two...

R. Kelly used persona to hide crimes ‘in plain sight,’ prosecutors argue as singer’s racketeering trial in New York winds down

September 22, 2021 at 6:49 p.m.

The large poster-board display propped up in a federal courtroom in New York on Wednesday was reminiscent of something authorities would put together when taking down a mob syndicate: an...

Former Chicago police sergeant pleads guilty to misdemeanor battery charges in 2018 off-duty bar brawl

September 22, 2021 at 5:50 p.m.

A now-retired Chicago police sergeant pleaded guilty to reduced charges last week in connection with a North Side bar brawl that left two men with serious injuries, court records show....

All Stories