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Convicted killer seeking parole Victims’ families fight bid by man who murdered two McHenry County women in 1970s By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com CHICAGO – More than four decades after his crimes, admitted serial killer Mark A. Smith continues to torture his victims’ families, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Every three years, the families of the women he killed appear before a hearing of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board to ask them to deny Smith’s bid for an early release. The convicted murderer was not present at Wednesday’s hearing, which was video recorded.
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As the families listened to the details of his brutal murders, they relived the painful details of their loved ones’ final moments. Each murder was disturbingly similar, all horrifyingly gruesome. Smith is responsible for two
murders in McHenry County in the 1970s, another in Cook County and a fourth in Arkansas. By his own admission in his book “Legally Sane,” Smith killed at least another eight in Germany, where he was stationed with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
A 20-year-old at the time, Smith brutally raped and murdered Jean Bianchi, a 27-yearold mother of two young children, and 17-year-old Jean Anne Lingenfelter, both of McHenry.
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Mark A. Smith is eligible for parole every three years for the murders of three women in Illinois in the 1970s.
DISTRICT 12’S RISING INTEREST IN SAILING
President Obama vows relentless pursuit of terrorists By LARA JAKES and RYAN LUCAS The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The United States launched a new barrage of airstrikes Wednesday against the Islamic State extremist group that beheaded American journalist James Foley and that has seized a swath of territory across Iraq and Syria. President James Foley, Barack Obama was killed by vowed relentthe Islamic less pursuit of State extrem- the terrorists ist group, ISIS and the White House revealed the U.S. had launched a secret rescue mission inside Syria earlier this summer that failed to rescue Foley and other Americans still being held hostage. In brief but forceful remarks, Obama said the U.S. would “do what we must to protect our people,” but he stopped short of promising to follow the Islamic State in its safe haven within Syria, where officials said Foley had been killed. Later, however, the administration revealed that several dozen special operations troops had been on the ground in Syria briefly in an effort to rescue the hostages, but did not find them. And looking forward, the State Department refused to rule out future U.S. military operations in Syria, where Obama has long resisted intervening in a three-year civil war.
Photos by Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Natalie Aylward (left), 14, of Johnsburg and Christy Corbeil, 17, of Johnsburg jump into the water after flipping the boat Monday to learn the limits of the sailboat and exorcise fears during practice for the District 12 competitive sailing team at Pistakee Yacht Club in Johnsburg.
STUDENTS READY TO SET SAIL Some high schools creating competitive teams By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
Andy Kartheiser, 17, of Johnsburg and his 5-year-old Labrador, Peter Pan, hang out on the dock Monday during practice.
On the Web For information about the Community Sailing School @ Pistakee, go to its website at commsailpistakee.org.
JOHNSBURG – Treading water next to a turtled sailboat, three Johnsburg High School students grabbed the keel, using their weight to pull it onto its side and eventually right side up. Flipping the sailboat was scary at first, 17-year-old Christy Corbeil said,
but by her third day on the brand-new Johnsburg High School sailing team, she was volunteering to practice the maneuver. The exercise did its job, teaching the new sailors the limits of the boat and exorcising fears, assistant sailing instructor Cortney Kingsley said.
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