Cook County’s top prosecutor touts increase in pretrial detention, urges electronic monitoring reform

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said one of her office’s top achievements during her first year in office has been increasing the pretrial detention rate for suspects charged with assault weapons possession, domestic violence and other violent crimes. …

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As they watched true crime TV in Hayward, he started to fidget. Then he turned to her and confessed to murder, she says

HAYWARD — Retired homicide detective Joe Kenda was going through the motions, describing for his TV audience how murders are solved through a meticulous, step-by-step review of physical evidence. It was Dec. 9, 2019, the year that Kenda’s show, Homicide …

As they watched true crime TV in Hayward, he started to fidget. Then he turned to her and confessed to murder, she says Read More