A man awaiting trial on charges of concealing his girlfriend’s nearly-decapitated body in a duffel bag now faces first-degree murder charges, court records show. Brittany Battaglia, 33, had been missing for days when her body was found with stab wounds in Genesis Silva’s Logan Square apartment in a duffel bag along with a machete and bags of cleaning equipment in June 2023. Prosecutors had .
A Chicago man is accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend just weeks after she went to police to report him breaking into her home and threatening to kill her.