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| Artist's sketch that ran in the Joliet Herald-News |
July 2 -- Kenneth Chancellor, 34, and Terri Lynn Johnson, 19, were found shot to death in a rural area.
July 16 -- Six people were ambushed in a rural area. Dead included George Kiehl, 24; Cathleen Norwood, 25; Richard Paulin, 32 and safety patrol officer Steven Mayer, 22. Another safety patrol officer, Denis Foley, 50, was hospitalized with gunshot wounds and died a month later. Laura Troutman, 21, survived.
July 17 -- Anthony Hackett, 18, was shot to death in his car parked along Interstate 55 south of Joliet. His female companion was raped and stabbed.
August 20 -- Four women were killed in a ceramic shop: Anna Ryan, 75, was shot; Barbara Dunbar, 38, Pamela Ryan, 29, and Marilyn Baers, 45, were stabbed.
| Milton Johnson as he appeared when he was arrested. Note he has a goatee that wasn't on the artist's sketch. |
In March of 1984, a year after he was paroled, Johnson was arrested for the murder of Anthony Hackett and police said he was suspected in at least 10 of the previous summer's murders. On August 3, 1984, Milton Johnson was found guilty of murdering Hackett. A few months later, he was convicted of the ceramic shop murders.
Johnson received the death penalty, but it was never carried out. Illinois later changed all death penalty convictions to life sentences. Johnson is an inmate at Menard Correctional Center
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| Milton Johnson today at Menard |
