Killer of judge's family used GPS to find her home

From: Omega (2121(d)_at_insightbb.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:23:23 GMT

I wonder now if GPS units will be banned like they are trying to do for
guns?

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-lefkow16.html

Lefkow killer used GPS to find her home

March 16, 2005

BY FRANK MAIN AND NATASHA KORECKI Staff Reporters

Bart Ross used a global positioning device to seek directions to the homes
of federal Judge Joan Lefkow as well as a doctor and a Cook County judge,
sources said Tuesday.

Ross, 57, shot to death Lefkow's husband, Michael Lefkow, 64, and her
mother, Donna Humphrey, 89, in their North Side basement Feb. 28. Police
recovered a GPS mapping system from Ross' van after he shot himself in the
head last Wednesday.

The device contained the address of the Lefkows' home in the 5200 block of
North Lakewood, the addresses of a Cook County judge living in Glencoe and a
doctor living in Northbrook, sources said.

The van also contained a "hit list" with the names of Lefkow and other
judges, lawyers and doctors Ross felt wronged him in his 10-year legal
battle against a Chicago hospital for his treatment of cancer of the mouth.
He said medical malpractice left his face disfigured.

Judge seeks more security

In September, Lefkow dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by Ross, whose note
said she was "No. 1 to kill." Ross had represented himself in his case
against the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospitals.

Federal investigators were continuing to search through computers seized
from the van and Ross' Albany Park home to find out how he obtained the
addresses of Lefkow, the doctor and the Cook County judge, sources said.

Ross is suspected of walking around the federal courthouse in Milwaukee
hours before he killed himself in a suburb of the city. Federal appeals
judge Terence Evans, who ruled against Ross' appeal in November, has an
office in the federal courthouse in Milwaukee. Evans was on Ross' hit list.

Evans agreed with a resolution passed Tuesday by the Judicial Conference of
the United States asking the Justice Department and the U.S. Marshals
Service to improve security, particularly at judges' homes.

"I think someone ought to take a look at that, particularly "pro se" filers,
those most apt to go off the deep end," Evans said.

Body still not ID'd as Ross

Since Ross started his obsessive legal battle, he sent rambling letters to
numerous state and federal authorities, and once called the state Court of
Claims in Springfield threatening to kill himself and others after one of
his lawsuits was dismissed, officials said.

Authorities said they were preparing to track down Ross for questioning when
he killed himself March 9. DNA and ballistic evidence confirmed Ross was
responsible for the Lefkow killings.

In his court filings, Ross claimed he had been on morphine and codeine
"24/7," because of pain in his lower jaw that he said severely restricted
his ability to open his mouth.

Amy Michalak, a forensic investigator in charge at the Milwaukee County
Medical Examiner's office, said Tuesday despite Ross' note, his singularly
deformed jaw and forensic evidence tying him to the Lefkow family crime
scene, the office needs to look at dental records before positively
identifying the body as Ross.

No one has come forward to claim Ross' body. Milwaukee officials are trying
to communicate with Polish officials to determine if the man has any
relatives there.

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