Crime & Safety
Ex-Suburban Lawyer Donnie Rudd Faces Trial Over Wife's 1973 Death
His wife's death was originally ruled accidental after he claimed a hit man sent by a local politician tried to run him off the road.
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL — Opening statements began Tuesday for a man accused of killing his wife 45 years ago in Chicago’s northwest suburbs.
Donnie Rudd, 76, is accused of beating his 19-year-old wife to death before staging her death to look like a car accident in Barrington, Illinois.
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