The Brown's Chicken massacre is the popular name for a mass murder which occurred at a Brown's Chicken restaurant in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago in the United States in 1993. Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. ... Browns Chicken & Pasta is a Chicago-based chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken. ... For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... Palatine is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (140,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...

On January 8, 1993, seven people were murdered at the Brown's Chicken and Pasta in Palatine. The victims included the owners, Richard E. Ehlenfeldt, 50, and his wife, Lynn W., 49, of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Also killed were five employees: Guadalupe Maldonado, 46, of Palatine, the cook; Michael C. Castro, 16, and Rico L. Solis, 17, both Palatine High School students working there part-time; and Palatine residents Thomas Mennes, 32, and Marcus Nellsen, 31. is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Incorporated Village in 1836. ... Palatine High School is a high school in District 211 in Illinois, located at 1111 N. Rohlwing Rd in Palatine. ...

When Palatine police (PPD) found the bodies, it was more than 5 1/2 hours after the 9 p.m. closing. Parents of one employee had called police, concerned that their son had not returned home from work and that his car was still in the apparently-closed Brown's Chicken parking lot. Browns Chicken & Pasta is a Chicago-based chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken. ...

When officers arrived at the building, at 168 W. Northwest Highway, they spotted the rear, employees' door open. Inside, they found the seven bodies, some face down, in a cooler and in a walk-in refrigerator. Fridge redirects here. ...

The building no longer exists. It was razed in April, 2001, after housing a dry cleaning establishment, then standing vacant for several years with its dark windows marked with Xs. The site is currently a parking lot for Eurofresh, a store specializing in imported groceries. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using an organic solvent other than water — generally known as dry cleaning fluid, and typically this is tetrachloroethylene. ...

Current suspects

In March of 2002, more than nine years after the murders, Anne Lockett implicated her former boyfriend, James Degorski, and his associate, Juan Luna, in the crime. In April of 2002, PPD obtained a DNA sample from one suspect and matched it to a sample of saliva from a piece of partially-eaten chicken found in the garbage two days after the night of the shooting and kept in a freezer for most of the time since the crime -- testimony at trial indicated it was not frozen for several days after discovery, and was allowed to thaw several times for examination and testing -- in the hope of an eventual match via increasingly sophisticated testing methods not available in 1993. Some of the chicken was destroyed in testing, and photographs, swabs, and DNA extract related to the testing vanished before Degorski and Luna were charged. The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ...

The PPD took the two suspects, one of them a former employee of the restaurant, into custody on May 16, 2002. The pair, who met at Palatine's Fremd High School, are currently on trial. is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... William Fremd High School, or Fremd, is a public four-year high school located in Palatine, Illinois , a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. ... Look up trial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The trial had been delayed to allow defense attorneys to find the computers used to establish the DNA match between Luna and the chicken, and then reconstruct test data which had been deleted. This article is about the machine. ...

On March 30, 2007, the Chicago Tribune reported that jury selection in the trial had begun.[1] is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... // The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by the Tribune Company. ... This article can be confusing for some readers, and needs to be edited for clarity. ...

On May 10, 2007, Juan Luna was found guilty of all seven counts of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison on May 17. All but one juror had voted for the death penalty for Luna, but in Illinois the vote must be unanimous, so Luna was spared the death penalty. Jim Degorski's trial has yet to be set.

References

• Sadovi, Carlos. "First 2 Brown's Trial Jurors Chosen", Chicago Tribune, 2007-03-30. Retrieved on March 30, 2007.
• Tracking the Brown's story from start to present http://dailyherald.com/special/07/bct/index.asp

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