LF: After massive manhunt, Illinois cop’s death will be declared a suicide

US News After massive manhunt, Illinois cop’s death will be declared a suicide

A northern Illinois police officer, whose death sparked a citywide search for clues, died of an apparent suicide, an official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office of Illinois has called a Wednesday news conference to announce “conclusive results” of the investigation. Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a U.S. Army veteran affectionately known as “G.I. Joe,” radioed on Sept. 1 that he was chasing three suspicious men on foot. Backup officers later found his body 50 yards from his squad car. Gliniewicz was shot twice with his weapon. One shot was in the right side of the front of the officer’s protective vest and was severe enough to incapacitate him; the other shot, believed to have caused the fatal wound, struck him in the upper left chest, authorities said. More than 100 investigators stayed on the case for weeks, though questions arose in mid-September and investigators began to concede that they could not rule out suicide or an accident. Authorities said in October that Gliniewicz, 52, was shot with his own weapon, and many law enforcement sources have said that the sheriff’s office will announce the conclusion of the investigation.

There is just something very odd here. I said it from the start and im still not convinced we are getting the real story.

A northern Illinois police officer whose fatal shooting triggered a large manhunt carefully staged his death to make it look like he was killed in the line of duty and had been stealing for years from a youth program he oversaw, authorities said Wednesday.

Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko, who led the two-month investigation into the Sept. 1 death of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, said the popular officer embezzled thousands of dollars from the Fox Lake Police Explorer program for seven years. He said Gliniewicz spent the money on things like mortgage payments, travel expenses, gym memberships and adult websites.

"We have determined this staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that Gliniewicz had been committing in fact he was under increasing levels of personal stress from scrutiny of his management of the Fox Lake Police Explorer program," Filenko said at a news conference announcing the investigation's findings.

"Gliniewicz committed the ultimate betrayal," he added.

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