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CHICAGO -- The body of the man tied to federal judge Joan Humprhey Lefkow's family murders remained unclaimed on Wednesday. Bart Ross confessed in a suicide note to the killings of Lefkow's mother and husband. He shot himself to death outside of Milwaukee last week. Investigators are searching through records looking for relatives to claim Ross' body. If his body remains unclaimed, Milwaukee County will provide money for burial. In the meantime, officials said they've recovered a global position mapping system from Ross' van. Programmed into the device were directions to the Lefkow home, as well as a doctor and...

CHICAGO - Rambling and threatening letters from the man believed to be the killer of Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother prompted the Illinois Attorney General's office to investigate him six years ago, former state officials say. Investigators went to the Chicago home of Bart Ross in the winter of 1999 and created an extensive file on him, noting his paranoia and anger at the government and judiciary, said a former investigator and the office's one-time chief of investigations. Ross, 57, an unemployed electrician, committed suicide Wednesday in a Milwaukee suburb after a police officer pulled him over because of...

CHICAGO (AP) - A DNA match from a cigarette butt convinced police that a Chicago electrician was the killer of a federal judge's husband and mother, authorities said. The cigarette butt found in Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow's house was matched to the electrician, Bart Ross, who killed himself during a traffic stop in Wisconsin this week, and the evidence points to him as the lone killer, police spokesman David Bayless said. Ross, whose rambling lawsuit over his cancer treatment was dismissed by Lefkow, had claimed responsibility for the killings in a suicide note found in his minivan. "The DNA match,...

Source: Man Claims Responsibility for Slayings of Judge's FamilyBy Don Babwin Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 10, 2005 CHICAGO (AP) - A man who shot himself to death during a traffic stop in Wisconsin claimed in a suicide note that he killed a federal judge's husband and mother, a source close to the investigation told The Associated Press Thursday. Chicago Police Department spokesman David Bayless identified the man as Bart Ross. WMAQ-TV in Chicago also reported Thursday that it had received a handwritten letter signed by Ross in which he describes breaking into the house of Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow...

Investigators early Thursday said a man who shot himself in the head during a traffic stop in Wisconsin had a suicide note claiming responsibility for the slaying of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother last week. Members of the task force of Chicago police and federal agents said the man's van was stopped in West Allis, near Milwaukee, about 6 p.m. Wednesday. As officers approached the vehicle, the man killed himself with a gunshot to the head. Investigators said the man had a suicide note that included an admission that he shot the judge's family. The note included...