SIMKUNAS v. TARDI

No. 87 C 7752.

720 F.Supp. 687 (1989)

Glen Dale SIMKUNAS, Plaintiff, v. Michael TARDI, Robert Troy, Al Vodicka, Charles Forsythe, Peter Hurst, individually and as Officers of the Hickory Hills Police Department, and The City of Hickory Hills, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

August 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick A. Tuite, John L. Hines, Jr., Tuite, Mejia & Giacchetti, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

William S. Wigoda, Peter A. Nicholson, Horvath & Wigoda, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MAROVITZ, Senior District Judge.

This case concerns the savage rape and murder of a young woman, and the subsequent police investigation of that brutal crime. In the four decades of experience on the bench, this court cannot recall a case that was such a conglomeration of bizarre facts and circumstances. On December 20, 1982, Susan Marie Schaaf (hereinafter, "Schaaf") was raped and murdered in her Hickory Hills, Illinois apartment...

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