Re: NO MURDER PROSECUTION KANE COUNTY ILLINOIS

["Amy" <amytrip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

found this unrelated - another case entirely but a short interesting read
nonetheless
as you can see, i'm still in search engine land

A Security Guard's Unsolved Mystery
(NC-May 8, 2003)--Rachel Dietrich lived in Charlotte less than two
months.She moved here from Pennsylvania with a boyfriend in the fall of
1995. The 20-year-old got a job with Spartan Security working overnight as a
Private Security Guard.Then in Oct. 14, 1995, she disappeared from her guard
shack.Next day, police got a call from a nearby church.... Someone going to
a 1 p.m. choir practice at the Church had found a woman in the grass behind
the sanctuary. It was Dietrich. She'd been beaten to death.Police have never
made an arrest in the case."I still pray every day that they will find the
person who did this to her," said Dietrich's mother, Debbie Dietrich.
"Somebody has to know something. It's been eight years and I've heard
nothing. "Detective Steve Furr, who was there the morning Rachel Dietrich
was reported missing, still keeps her case file at his desk but admits he
can't really work on the case because he has no leads to chase."It was like
she was sucked up in a tornado," Furr said. "Nothing in the guard house was
disturbed. "Nobody saw anything."The detective said the motive doesn't
appear to be robbery. An autopsy determined she wasn't sexually assaulted,
even though her pants were down and her uniform shirt was unbuttoned.Unlike
a lot of homicide victims, Furr said, Dietrich had no criminal record, no
drug abuse, no known history of domestic violence. And so another Unsolved
Mystery...A PSG this time.


"Robert L. Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Felony Murder Doctrine
>
> There needs to be a causal relationship between the criminal acts and the
> death.  For example, suppose someone robs a bank while one of the patrons
> is present.  The patron suffers a fatal stroke during the robbery.  To
> prove murder the state would have to show that the stroke was caused or at
> least exacerbated by the crime.
>
> In the case in point without knowing the officer's medical history there
> is no way to know if the crime brought on the death.  He may have been
> suffering from chronic heart disease -- many older police officers are --
> or some other problem.
>
> The mere act of running, even if it brought on a heart attack, is not
> something extraordinary to police work.  Officers are often required to
> exert themselves and if this man's heart was so weak that a short run
> killed him defense attorneys would have little trouble persuading the
> court that his death was due to natural causes.
>
>