Frank “Butch” Colombo Jr. of Glenburn Twp. died surrounded by his family on Sunday evening at Allied Hospice, Scranton. His wife of 65 years, Susan M. Colombo, preceded him in death just four weeks ...

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has again denied parole for Patricia Columbo and Frank DeLuca, each serving 200 to 300 years in prison for the 1976 murders of Columbo's father, mother and ...

In October 1975, Patricia Columbo meticulously hatched a plan to kill her family, soliciting friends and acquaintances to carry out the murders. Eight months later, the 19-year-old executed the plot ...

It looked, at first, like a burglary gone bad, or the work of one of the home-invasion gangs that had been terrorizing the suburbs around Chicago in the mid-1970s. On May 7, 1976, Elk Grove Village ...

The sleepy neighborhood in Elk Grove Village still attracts the occasional visitor seeking a glimpse of where one of the northwest suburbs’ grisliest and most notorious crimes took place. The home on ...

Patricia Columbo was convicted along with her boyfriend, Frank DeLuca, of shooting her parents, Mary and Frank Columbo, slitting Mary Columbo’s throat and stabbing Patricia’s 13-year-old brother, ...