STREATOR - A fugitive wanted on a warrant for an incident where a Livingston County deputy was allegedly injured was captured in Streator. The LaSalle County
May 25, 2021
Ray Larsen – Photo Illinois Department of Corrections
CHICAGO (AP) A 76-year-old man newly paroled from an Illinois prison after serving time for the 1972 murder of a teenage boy is considered a fugitive. The Illinois Department of Corrections lists Ray Larsen as an “absconder,” meaning parole officials don’t know were he is. Larsen was sentenced to 100 to 300 years in prison after confessing to killing 16-year-old Frank Casolari in a forest preserve near Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. At the time of the killing, Larsen, then 27, was on a “family furlough” from prison to visit his grandmother. He was serving time for robbery. Paroled earlier this month, Larsen was supposed to take up residence on Chicago’s South Side.