Covelli said the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Justice will handle the ongoing investigation. Thousands of dollars were used for personal purchases, including adult websites, officials said. The Lake County coroner, Dr Thomas Rudd, said his head was bruised in ways that may have been intentional. He was the sole signator on the explorer’s account, investigators said.
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Police examined thousands of pages of financial documents, emails, and more than 6,500 pages of text messages in this investigation. Text messages Gliniewicz sent before his death, which authorities revealed Wednesday, appeared to suggest threats against Village Manager Anne Marrin.
“It only confirmed to me that the tough questions was the absolute right thing to do”, Marrin said.
Still, many police officers say that sustained protests nationwide have left them feeling under siege. There were bad rumors. “I can’t answer that question”.
After his shooting death on September 1, Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz of the Fox Lake (Ill.) Police Department was held up as evidence of the fraudulence and immorality of protesters chanting “Black Lives Matter“.
A friend of the Gliniewicz family said she finds the suicide story hard to believe, that the officer she trusted could turn out to be someone else.
Gliniewicz was wearing a bulletproof vest at the time he was shot, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation. Gliniewicz left a trail spanning almost 300 feet of his pepper spray, baton and glasses behind him, investigators said. Filenko said Gliniewicz had experience in staging investigation scenes for police training scenarios. So when Gliniewicz staged his own death scene in an isolated area where the Explorers practiced, he had plenty of practice. Once he’d learned the other elements of the investigation and of Gliniewicz’s profile – the cause of death became clear to him.
At the point when different officers arrived, he was discovered dead around 50 yards (46m) from his watch auto. “When I walked away from the table, I didn’t know what it was”.
The coroner said he couldn’t rule out a homicide, suicide or accident. “To betray the police profession and the community is just absolutely appalling”.
Filenko said he may have past a group of men on the way to the scene and got the idea.
Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz. We uncovered that deception. FAMILY ASKS FOR PRIVACYNo one answered the door at the family’s Antioch home on Wednesday. She said she worked for the program under Gliniewicz’s supervision in 2000, and she said he was her officer in command at the time. As a result, Gliniewicz’s family – he was a married father of four – could lose a substantial sum since investigators say he did not die in the line of duty. His family released a statement through an Illinois law firm that did not directly respond to what investigators announced and asked for privacy as they continue to mourn.
Also on Wednesday, organizers of a fundraiser planned for Friday at Antioch High School, Gliniewicz’s alma mater, announced the event had been canceled. Glieniwicz and his wife were advisors for that program in Fox Lake. “But I’m not necessarily ashamed for what I did”, he said of his intentions when he bid for the auto. “Shock. Everybody’s in shock”.
“When people donated their money to the family, that’s where their donations were (intended) to go, and it’s not for us to decide to send this elsewhere”, the parent said. Gliniewicz was a member of the union, Pasco said. His funeral was widely attended and he was buried as a hero officer.
“I can tell you that eventually he would have been caught”, Filenko said.
“Gliniewicz committed the ultimate betrayal to the citizens he served and the entire law enforcement community”, Commander Filenko said. “No. None at all”.
“We didn’t see any signs of trauma to the hands, or anything that would indicate that there was a struggle physically”.
“We completely believed from day one that (the death of Gliniewicz) was a homicide”, he said. Gliniewicz, who was well regarded in the community, may also have been concerned with preserving his reputation.
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That same evening, a cocksure Clarke told Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs that he has been to Fox Lake and knows that Gliniewicz is one of the town’s “finest”, gunned down while “engaged in self-initiative policing, the best policing there is”.
