The Murder Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit to compel the Illinois State Police to provide homicide clearance counts and other important murder data it ceased reporting to the U.S. Department of Justice and to the public more than 20 years ago. The nonprofit organization filed the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on December 3, 2015, in Cook County...
The Murder Accountability Project has reached a settlement in its lawsuit against the Illinois State Police and is publishing online the case-level details of 432 homicides committed in Illinois from 1996 through 2015 that were not reported to the Justice Department. These recovered records, available at the “Search Cases” tab, represent only 20 percent...
Murder Accountability Project: Illinois trails all other states in catching killers Illinois trails all other states in catching killers Killers are more likely to get away with murder in Illinois than in any other state. Only 37.3 percent of the 756 homicides committed in Illinois in 2015 were cleared through the arrest (or death) of the offenders, according to a...
Convicted serial killer Darren Deon Vann told detectives he killed “way more” victims in Illinois than in Northwest Indiana where he strangled seven women over a 10 month period in 2014, in most cases depositing their bodies in abandoned properties in the city of Gary. Vann’s recently released admissions made seven years ago have sparked new...