all across this country. Pay VERY close attention to all crimes where the suspect is described as "mentally ill".
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The Associated Press State & Local Wire
May 24, 2002, Friday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 412 words
HEADLINE: Former Marine guilty in slayings of two women
DATELINE: CHICAGO
A 37-year-old former Marine could face the death penalty after jurors rejected an insanity plea and convicted him of first-degree murder in the 1996 slayings of two women.
On Friday, Andrew Urdiales was found eligible for the death penalty in the slayings of Lynn Huber, 22, of Chicago and Laura Uylaki, 25, of Hammond, Ind., whose bodies were dumped in Wolf Lake in Chicago. Authorities now must determine if they will seek a death sentence.
Urdiales, who admitted killing Huber and Uylaki and dumping their bodies, also has admitted killing five women in California, and faces a murder trial in downstate Illinois.
Jurors took less than three hours Thursday to determine that Urdiales, a private security guard from Chicago, was not insane.
During the seven-week trial before Cook County Circuit Judge Edward Fiala, Urdiales' attorneys argued that he was a deluded psychopath who believed the CIA ordered him to kill through a radio transmitter in his head.
Three mental health experts testified for the defense that Urdiales is a paranoid schizophrenic, has a rare organic delusional disorder and has brain damage from blows to the head.
"These are mental diseases and defects that make him legally insane," defense attorney Kathryn Lisco told the jury.
Two experts for the prosecution testified that Urdiales was not suffering from delusions when he committed the murders.
"He committed these crimes for the most obscene reason in mankind: because he wanted to and because he could," assistant state's attorney Frank Marek said in closing arguments.
Urdiales also faces charges of first-degree murder in the death of a Hammond, Ind., woman whose body was found in 1996 along the Vermilion River, north of Pontiac. A trial in Livingston County in that case is planned.
Urdiales also has admitted to killing five women while he was stationed at Camp Pendleton near San Diego in the mid-1980s, authorities said.
In San Diego, a homicide team reviewing Urdiales' testimony to Chicago authorities connected him to the September 1988 slaying of Mary Ann Wells, San Diego police Lt. Mike Hurley said.
Wells, 33, a prostitute, was last seen getting into a car hours before she was found dead, Hurley said. The San Diego District Attorney's Office issued an arrest warrant for Urdiales in November 1997 for first-degree murder.
Evidence suggests he may be linked to three other unsolved murders in Riverside and Orange County, Hurley said.
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The Associated Press State & Local Wire
May 24, 2002, Friday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 412 words
HEADLINE: Former Marine guilty in slayings of two women
DATELINE: CHICAGO
A 37-year-old former Marine could face the death penalty after jurors rejected an insanity plea and convicted him of first-degree murder in the 1996 slayings of two women.
On Friday, Andrew Urdiales was found eligible for the death penalty in the slayings of Lynn Huber, 22, of Chicago and Laura Uylaki, 25, of Hammond, Ind., whose bodies were dumped in Wolf Lake in Chicago. Authorities now must determine if they will seek a death sentence.
Urdiales, who admitted killing Huber and Uylaki and dumping their bodies, also has admitted killing five women in California, and faces a murder trial in downstate Illinois.
Jurors took less than three hours Thursday to determine that Urdiales, a private security guard from Chicago, was not insane.
During the seven-week trial before Cook County Circuit Judge Edward Fiala, Urdiales' attorneys argued that he was a deluded psychopath who believed the CIA ordered him to kill through a radio transmitter in his head.
Three mental health experts testified for the defense that Urdiales is a paranoid schizophrenic, has a rare organic delusional disorder and has brain damage from blows to the head.
"These are mental diseases and defects that make him legally insane," defense attorney Kathryn Lisco told the jury.
Two experts for the prosecution testified that Urdiales was not suffering from delusions when he committed the murders.
"He committed these crimes for the most obscene reason in mankind: because he wanted to and because he could," assistant state's attorney Frank Marek said in closing arguments.
Urdiales also faces charges of first-degree murder in the death of a Hammond, Ind., woman whose body was found in 1996 along the Vermilion River, north of Pontiac. A trial in Livingston County in that case is planned.
Urdiales also has admitted to killing five women while he was stationed at Camp Pendleton near San Diego in the mid-1980s, authorities said.
In San Diego, a homicide team reviewing Urdiales' testimony to Chicago authorities connected him to the September 1988 slaying of Mary Ann Wells, San Diego police Lt. Mike Hurley said.
Wells, 33, a prostitute, was last seen getting into a car hours before she was found dead, Hurley said. The San Diego District Attorney's Office issued an arrest warrant for Urdiales in November 1997 for first-degree murder.
Evidence suggests he may be linked to three other unsolved murders in Riverside and Orange County, Hurley said.
- I Could Post HUNDREDS Of These Cases... —Martin F. Abernathy, Fri Apr 29 20:48
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