Posted on 11/06/2020 6:53:01 AM PST by Red Badger
A Hammond man accused of killing his girlfriend after a concert in Tinley Park, Illinois, then leaving her body in an Illinois forest preserve was released to home monitoring Thursday.
Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Boswell upheld her Oct. 19 ruling that James McGhee, 39, charged with killing Sidne-Nichole Buchanan, 27, in July 2019, was qualified to be released on his own recognizance to home confinement with an ankle monitor because the state took too long to bring him to trial.
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McGhee filed a motion for a speedy trial in Judge Clarence Murray’s court, which was granted in October 2019. A motion to dismiss was denied. A later trial scheduled in June was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police arrested McGhee in August 2019, accusing him of killing Buchanan in his Gary apartment after a July 27, 2019, Wiz Khalifa concert.
Buchanan left for the concert that night with McGhee from her mother’s Gary house and never returned, court records state. Authorities believe McGhee took Buchanan back to his apartment at the Concord Commons in the 1900 block of Burr Street in Gary where he beat her to death sometime before sunrise, records state. Her body was found on Aug. 12, 2019, in the Thornton-Lansing Road Nature Preserve in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois.
The day after the murder, McGhee picked up a friend in Hammond as he went searching for a place to take her body, charges state. They returned to the Gary apartment, while the friend waited outside as McGhee took the body out in a suitcase, according to court documents. In exchange for immunity, the man later took police to the body.
McGhee allegedly told him he “lost it” and had “messed up” and killed the woman, records state.
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Carrion Luggage Ping!...................
I would be careful about allowing women to deliver pizzas to this guy...
Pizzas with a ‘special sauce’.............Arsenic flavored..............
Well, this sucks. I feel for the murdered woman’s family.
Uh...like where is enraged family?
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