Re: Killer of judge's family used GPS to find her home
From: KnumbKnuts ([nospam[jhansman_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 03/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:23:30 GMT
Who, I wonder, is 'they', and how do you equate an device like a GPS unit
with a .357 magnum?
"Omega" <2121(d)@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> I wonder now if GPS units will be banned like they are trying to do for
> guns?
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> http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-lefkow16.html
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> Lefkow killer used GPS to find her home
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> March 16, 2005
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> BY FRANK MAIN AND NATASHA KORECKI Staff Reporters
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Judge seeks more security
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "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.
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> Body still not ID'd as Ross
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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