A makeshift memorial withers outside the Palatine Brown's Chicken &
Pasta
in the days after seven people were murdered there.
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Investigators rummage through trash behind Brown's the day after the
murders. It is in an inside garbage can, however, where a key clue
is found. Outside, a throng of reporters interviews the victims'
relatives and friends. Casey Sander, below, was scheduled to work
the night of the murders, but was given a rare Friday night off so
cashier Rico Solis could log more hours.
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Three months after his twin brother, Tom, was slain, Jerry Mennes
returns to Palatine Brown's Chicken & Pasta in 1993 to mark their
33rd birthday. Nearly a decade later, Martin E. Blake, below, has
distanced himself from the crime that briefly put him in the
spotlight. He lives in Texas.
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A phone call last spring put police on the trail of Jim Degorski,
left, and Juan Luna,
both charged in the Brown's murders.
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Arrests of Juan A. Luna Jr., left, and James Degorski
in May 2002 in Palatine.
Juan A. Luna Jr.
Juan A. Luna Jr.
Juan A. Luna Jr.
Juan A. Luna Jr.
in prison.
Juan Luna Sr. and his wife, Alicia, arrive at a news conference
outside the Cook County Criminal Courts Building in Chicago, Tuesday,
May 15, 2007, where jurors found that their son, Juan Luna, 33, is
eligible for the death penalty in the execution-style murders of
seven people at a suburban Chicago restaurant. Luna was convicted on
May 10, 2007 of first-degree murder in the 1993 killings at Brown's
Chicken and Pasta restaurant in Palatine.
