The Brown Chicken Massacre was a massacre that took place at Brown's Chicken restaurant in Palatine, northwestern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, on January 8, 1993, when two assailants robbed a restaurant and then proceeded to the killing of seven employees.
The case remained unsolved for nearly nine years, until one of the attackers was involved by his girlfriend in 2002. Police used DNA samples from the homicide grounds to match one of the suspects, Juan Luna. Luna was tried in 2007, found guilty of seven counts of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment. James Degorski, another attacker, was found guilty in 2009 of all seven murders, and was also sentenced to life imprisonment.
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On January 8, 1993, seven people died in Brown's Chicken & amp; Pasta at 168 W. Northwest Highway in Palatine. The victims included the owners, Richard and Lynn Ehlenfeldt, and five employees: Guadalupe Maldonado, Michael C. Castro and Rico L. Solis (the last two students from Palatine High School who worked there part-time), Thomas Mennes, and Marcus Nellsen. The attackers stole less than $ 2,000 from the restaurant. Two Ehlenfeldts daughters were scheduled to be at the restaurant that night, but were absent at the time of the murder; the third daughter, Jennifer, was later elected to the Senate of Wisconsin State.
When the Palatine police found the bodies, it was over 5 and a half hours after 9 pm. closing. Michael Castro's parents called the police several hours after closing time. Then the wife of Guadalupe Maldonado called the police, worried that her husband had not come home from work and the car was still in the seemingly closed parking lot of Brown's Chicken. When the officers arrived at the building, they saw the back door of the employee open. Inside, they found seven bodies, some faces down, some faces up, in coolers and in the refrigerator.
The building was flattened in April 2001, after briefly building a dry house and then standing empty for years. The Chase Bank branch office was built in Brown's former location.
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Recent history
In March 2002, more than nine years after the assassination, Anne Lockett stepped in and involved his ex-girlfriend, James Degorski, and his partner, Juan Luna, in the crime. Luna is a former employee of the restaurant. In April 2002, the Palatine Police Department matched DNA samples from Luna to saliva samples from a piece of partially eaten chicken found in the garbage during the crime scene investigation. The chicken was stored in the freezer for most of the time since the crime; Testimonies in the trial showed it had not frozen for several days after discovery, and were allowed to dilute several times for examination and testing, in the hope that the final match through increasingly sophisticated testing methods was not available in 1993.
The Palatine Police Department took the two suspects into custody on May 16, 2002. Luna admitted to committing crimes during interrogation, although her lawyers would later claim that she was forced to do so through corporal punishment and the threat of deportation. The couple, who met at William Fremd High School in the Palatine, then went to court.
On May 10, 2007, Juan Luna was found guilty of all seven counts of murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on May 17th. The state had searched for the death penalty, which was available at the time, but a jury vote of eleven verses supporting death sentence fell from the unanimity required to impose it.
On September 29, 2009, James Degorski was found guilty of all seven murders, largely due to the testimony of his ex-girlfriend, Anne Lockett, and another woman, who both claimed that Degorski had confessed to them. On October 20, 2009 she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. All but two jurors have chosen the death penalty.
The incident had an adverse effect on the entire Brown's Chicken franchise. Sales at all restaurants fell 35 percent in the months after the incident, and the company eventually had to close 100 restaurants in the Chicago area.
In March 2014, the jury gave James Degorski $ 451,000 in compensation and compensation for being beaten by a Sheriff deputy in Cook County Prison in May 2002. He suffered a facial fracture that required surgery; the deputy finally dismissed.
See also
- List of massacres in Illinois
- Lane Bryant fired, a similar killing of buyers and workers on February 2, 2008 at Tinley Park, IL
Notes and references
Further reading
- Possley, Maurice. Chocolate Chicken Massacre , Berkeley, 2003. Paperback, ISBN 0-425-19085-4
- Shere, Dennis. "The Last Meal: Defend the Accused Mass Murderer," Titletown, 2010. Paperback, ISBN 978-0-9823008-8-6
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