Fifty years after murder of Chicago detective, man gets life for bank robbery
U.S. District Court records A Cook County prosecutor argued decades ago that David Walsh should be “securely locked up forever.” Walsh had murdered a Chicago police officer in the 1960s only to be granted parole in 1983, the prosecutor wrote. Walsh had since been arrested with an Uzi submachine gun, “disguises of all sorts,” restraints, ski masks and bulletproof vests, he said. Then, in April 1987, he wrote that Walsh “celebrated his 10th day out of prison by walking into a restaurant on 63rd Street and sticking the place up using a replica of an antique gun.” “Each time this th...
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