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Signorile found guilty of murder Jurors need less than 90 minutes to convict Huntley man of beating woman to death By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – It took more than five years for the relationship between Robert Signorile and Michelle Mathieu to turn violent.
It took jurors less than 90 minutes to convict the Huntley man of beating her to death. Immediately after the guilty verdict was returned, Mathieu’s adult son, Michael Mathieu-Duran, slumped over in tears. Mathieu’s three siblings hugged
prosecuting attorneys, shook hands with detectives, and outside the courtroom, called the verdict “bittersweet.” Signorile, prosecutors said, beat Mathieu so severely that he covered her body in bruises, fractured her ribs and spine and
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caused a head trauma that ultimately killed her. “Her unfortunate mistake – her fatal mistake – was that she gave all of her love to this belligerent alcoholic,” Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Zalud said in a fiery closing argument.
“He put all of her love into his hands, into his fists, into his feet, and he killed her,” Zalud said. Signorile turns 45 on Saturday. He appeared calm as the verdict was read with his chin
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The ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS – It was the same time, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. It was the same place, downtown Dallas. But 50 years later, the thousands of people who filled Dealey Plaza weren’t there to cheer but to remember in quiet sadness the young, handsome president with whom Dallas will always be “linked in tragedy.” The solemn ceremony presided over by Mayor Mike Rawlings was the first time the city had organized an official Kennedy anniversary event, issuing 5,000 free tickets and erecting a stage with video screens. Somber remembrances extended from Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, with moments of silence, speeches by historians and, above all, simple reverence for a time and a leader long gone. “We watched the nightmarish reality in our front yard,” Rawlings told the crowd, which assembled just steps from the Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor at Kennedy’s open-top limousine. “Our president had been taken from us, taken from his family, taken from the world.” Two generations later, the assassination still stirs quiet sadness in the baby boomers who remember it as the beginning of a darker, more cynical time. “A new era dawned and another waned a half-century ago, when hope and hatred collided right here in Dallas,”
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Catherine Ennis began taking care of her husband, Jim, who has Lewy body dementia, nine years ago. Catherine does what she can to include Jim in her daily life, while being his caregiver. They do things like sewing, gardening, cooking and other things around the house. “We learn to do things together,” she said. “On a day that he feels good, we do stuff. He’s still my husband.”
Emotional journey of caregiving Growing number of people take on role, develop ways to cope
By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – Catherine Ennis will say that one of the most important things she’s learned in nine years as a caregiver for her husband is that, from time to time, she has to not be a caregiver at all. There is no wiggle room here. She has a group of friends who she goes to quilting classes with twice a month. They don’t talk about Jim. At home, when her help is around, Ennis slips into a quiet room and sinks into a comfortable
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RTA HOPEFULS NARROWED TO TWO Two finalists emerged Friday from interviews with 10 candidates to fill McHenry County’s seat on the Regional Transportation Authority Board. A four-member McHenry County Board panel narrowed the pool to Dennis Adams of McHenry and Blake Hobson of Lakewood. For more, see page B1.
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chair by a bookshelf. Or, when it’s nice, she will fall out the back door, enjoy the flowers and let the fountain soothe. Like a growing number of people, Ennis has chosen to take on the role of primary caregiver for a loved one. Her husband, Jim, has Lewy body dementia, a disease that resembles Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Since the recession, more and more people have made the decision to become caregiver for an adult family member, partner or friend suffering
from a chronic condition or disability. The AARP’s Public Policy Institute estimated that in 2007, the economic value of that care equaled $375 billion. By 2009, the figure had reached $450 billion – $18.8 billion in Illinois. Family Alliance Inc., an adult care center in Woodstock, has seen that change on a local scale. “We noticed that several years ago when the economy kind of tanked, when we had that downturn, people were coming
See CAREGIVING, page A7