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Chris A. Perez, a Joliet resident, has been sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to second degree murder. (Mugshot via Will County Jail)
JOLIET, IL A 31-year-old Joliet man who spent more than three-and-half-years living inside the Will County Jail is now on his way to the Illinois Department of Corrections after being sentenced to 12 years in prison. Chris A. Perez fatally shot his 36-year-old brother
Ricardo Perez inside their mother s house in Joliet Township on Dec. 3, 2017.
Perez, who was 28 at the time, was booked into the Will County Jail on the same day of the homicide after the Will County Sheriff s investigators arrested him on first-degree murder charges.
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Bettenhausen was already on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry after a 2014 conviction on three counts of class 2 child pornography, the state s attorney s office said. (Shutterstock)
NEW LENOX, IL A Frankfort man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after he pled guilty in December to two counts of class 1 child pornography, according to a release from the Will County State s Attorney s Office.
Aaron Bettenhausen, 43, was charged by the New Lenox Police Department in July 2020 after taking upskirt videos of women at a Target in New Lenox, according to the State s Attorney s Office.
Police reviewed Bettenhausen s phone and said they found numerous upskirt videos and photos, as well as photos of children engaged in pornographic acts, according to the state s attorney s office. Officers also later found several SIM cards with child pornography at Bettenhausen s home, police said.
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A two-hour show on Wilmington s Riley Fox murder from June 2004 aired Friday night on ABC and is available to stream on ABC News digital platforms and Hulu. (Image via FBI )
WILMINGTON, IL
Kathleen Zellner, the criminal defense lawyer who proved that the Will County Sheriff s Office botched the high-profile homicide investigation of 3-year-old
Riley Fox, wants everyone to know that huge rewards can make the difference in solving high-profile murder cases.
The June 6, 2004, killing of the little girl from Wilmington was featured in a two-hour special aired Friday night by ABC s 20/20.
Seventeen years ago, Zellner s client
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âIn an instant, my life was forever changed and it was devastating.
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3-year-old Riley Fox disappears mysteriously from her family home: Part 1
Friends of Rileyâs parents described her as a âlittle princessâ who would âlight up a room.â She had been sleeping in the familyâs living room the night before her parents learned sheâd disappeared. ABC
Dressed up in a Minnie Mouse costume for her sonâs school Halloween party, Melissa Fox tried to put on a brave face for her 6-year-old boy and the world.