I wonder if it was her husband and son.
Old bodies? New bodies?
The judge went postal?
From Federal Judicial Center Web site http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2882
Lefkow, Joan Humphrey
Born 1944 in Rural Nemaha County, KS
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Nominated by William J. Clinton on May 11, 2000, to a seat vacated by Ann C. Williams; Confirmed by the Senate on June 30, 2000, and received commission on July 11, 2000.
Education:
Wheaton College, A.B., 1965
Northwestern University Law School, J.D., 1971
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1971-1972
Staff attorney, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Inc., 1972-1975
Administrative law judge, Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1975-1979
Instructor, University of Miami Law School, 1980-1981
Executive director, Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., 1981-1982
U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1982-1997
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Illinois, 1997-2000
Race or Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Forget it Jake, its Chinatown, er, Chicago.
This was the judge who presided of a case involving White Supremacist Matt Hale and he was later sent to jail for asking people to kill her. I have a nasty feeling about this.
On Google News search, the only case mentioning Judge Lefkow recently involved Beanie Babies.
They found more Kerry voters?
Clinton appointee?
Greta van Sustern had a flash on this story - she might have more information on her show.
Maybe she had issued an habeas corpus for them. Perfectly within her jurisdiction.
ping
It says she's a graduate of Wheaton College.
That tends to suggest that she is an Evangelical with conservative religious beliefs, although one would need more evidence to nail it down. I know a few of the faculty at Wheaton and it's a fine place.
...The jury found Hale, 32, had solicited his security chief, Anthony Evola, to kill Lefkow because she had ruled against his organization, the former World Church of the Creator, in a trademark infringement lawsuit. But the jurors acquitted Hale of charges alleging he solicited Jon Fox, a former member of the World Church, to kill Lefkow.
A friend of John Wayne Gacy maybe?
CHICAGO -- Two people were found dead Monday night in the North Side home of U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, according to sources.The bodies were found in this house in the 5200 block of North Lakewood.
Police said the judge came home around 6 p.m. to find two victims in the residence in the 5200 block of North Lakewood Avenue.
Police and the FBI are conducting a death investigation.
Police News Affairs Officer Jo Ann Taylor said did not know the identities or ages of the victims. Officers would not say how the two people were killed.
Sources told WBBM radio that the bodies may have been a man and a woman.
Lefkow presided over a trademark case against Matt Hale, a white supremacist later convicted of trying to have the judge killed. Hale remains behind bars.
Bump. This looks like a big one.
Victims were her husband and mother.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050228lefkow,1,4091866.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The federal judge whom white supremacist Matthew Hale attempted to have murdered found her husband and mother lying dead in her house when she returned home Monday night, police said.(snip)
Judge Joan H. Lefkow returned to her house in the 5200 block of North Lakewood Avenue after work and found the bodies of her husband, attorney Michael F. Lefkow and her mother, Donna Humphrey, lying in blood in the house, police said.
[Woody] Harrelson's life took an odd turn at the age of 17, when his father was hired to kill U.S. District Judge John H. Wood, and did the deed. It sounds like a wild rumor, and the Harrelson family disputes the charges, but the verdict is in and a requested retrial has been denied.
http://www.nndb.com/people/666/000023597/
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