The Murder Chicago Didn't Want to Solve — ProPublica
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The man who called me, a long-retired Chicago police officer, was alternately charming and curt. He insisted he had nothing to do with the murder. “All the things you wrote in your letter to me are not true,” he said, speaking slowly, his voice occasionally shaky. “Everything in there is a fucking lie.” In the letter, I had asked him about a murder I’d been examining: the unsolved killing of a prominent Black politician in Chicago. I had reason...
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