Re: Killer of judge's family used GPS to find her home
From: janice (noway_at_nohow.com)
Date: 03/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:01:06 -0500
But, but it wouldn't be as interesting now would it? Yep anyone can get on
the internet and type in a name or phone number and find the address of a
person and get a turn by turn directions from where you are. If a crazy
person is out to get you they will unless you get them first, either in
defending yourself or getting them locked up with the key thrown away. The
thing is they don't say where he got the address in the first place.
Perhaps Judges and such need to unlist their phone numbers and make sure
that their addresses are not on the internet. One can request they be
removed.
"Pieter Litchfield" <pvcl@*nospam*plitch.com> wrote in message
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> I'll ask the really dumb question here - who needs a GPS to find a street
> address? It may be convenient, but not necessary. A phonebook and a map
> work just as well. I think this story again demonstrates the main stream
> media's "luddite" tendency to view new technology, and for some reason
> especially GPS technology, as the work of the devil. The implication of
> this story is that without GPS the murders could not have happened. Where
> have all the level headed editors gone?
>
>
> "Omega" <2121(d)@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:f_4_d.75411$Ze3.9710@attbi_s51...
>>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
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>> Lefkow killer used GPS to find her home
>>
>> March 16, 2005
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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