The wheels of justice have turned slowly since Barry Lee Whelpley's 2021 arrest for the assault and murder of 15-year-old Julie Ann Hanson, found dead in a field in Naperville, Illinois in 1972.
The wheels of justice have turned slowly since Barry Lee Whelpley's 2021 arrest for the assault and murder of 15-year-old Julie Ann Hanson, found dead in a field in Naperville, Illinois in 1972.
Patrick Prince said he spent 28 years in prison for a 1991 murder he confessed to only after he was beaten by Kriston Kato, a retired detective who is married to Judge Mary Brosnahan.
Chicago police officers claimed they were acting on an anonymous tip that Patrick Prince, then 19, had been robbing and shooting drug dealers and their customers on the West Side. The tipster supposedly said Porter was on the corner to make a drug buy, that Prince had attempted to rob him and shot him when Porter resisted.
Decades-old cases involving accusations against a former Chicago police detective might be emerging from legal limbo with the appointment of special prosecutors after Cook County judges and prosecutors withdrew from handling them.