Friday, July 22, 2005

Housecleaner held in double slaying

This is utterly disgusting.
Chicago Tribune | Housecleaner held in double slaying: "Caught stealing clothes and cash, a house cleaner brutally attacked a Lutheran minister and his daughter in their Buffalo Grove home, beating them with chairs, slashing their throats, then setting a fire that killed them, authorities said Thursday.
Russell H. Sedelmaier, 44, of the Northwest Side was charged in the slayings of Rev. Ivon Harris, 65, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicago, and Sarah Harris, 24, a 5th-grade teacher. He confessed to the crimes during a videotaped interrogation, prosecutors said.
The charges closed an exhaustive three-week inquiry in which investigators interviewed dozens of people and logged 300 pieces of physical evidence. Prosecutors said fingerprint and DNA matches, along with a witness' identification and the alleged confession, make them confident that they have their man.
'We believe the totality of the evidence will allow us to provide a very solid case in court,' said Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine.
For more than five years, Sedelmaier had cleaned the Harrises' home on a tranquil cul-de-sac in the 800 block of Saxon Place. But on June 29, a day he was not scheduled to work, he entered the house in a burglary attempt, police said.
Sedelmaier had a side job selling trinkets at flea markets and apparently was planning to hawk the family's clothing, said Don Meadie of the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, the agency that led the investigation.
He had stuffed numerous bags with clothes--enough to fill the mini-van he had parked outside--and was lining them up in the garage and near the front door when Sarah Harris walked in, authorities said.
Assistant State's Atty. Bob Milan said Sedelmaier attacked her, binding her with duct tape, gagging her and covering her eyes with a bandanna.
When Ivon Harris, a large man who recently had health problems, arrived home a short time later, Sedelmaier pushed him down a staircase into the basement, Milan said. Sedelmaier beat both father and daughter with chairs and slashed their throats and hands with a knife, Milan said.
Sedelmaier gathered flammable material in the basement and set it on fire to try to cover up the crime, Milan said. That was the final, fatal blow: Although Ivon and Sarah Harris had other grave wounds, the Cook County medical examiner found the primary cause of their deaths to be smoke inhalation.
Ivon Harris' wife, Eileen, arrived home at 8 that night to find thick smoke pouring from the house. Police and firefighters responding to the blaze found the bodies inside.
The bags of clothes were still there too. Police said the only thing Sedelmaier stole was about $100 in cash."

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