Legal Opinion
Herbert Whitlock v. Charles Bruegge
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 30, 2012No. 11-1059, 11-1060, 11-1061, 11-1068, 11-1069, 11-1070PublishedCited by 365 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
On July 6, 1986, Karen and Dyke Rhodes were found murdered in their home in Paris, Illinois. They had been stabbed numerous times and their home had been set afire. From the ashes of these gruesome murders rises another, deeply disturbing, allegation: that police and a prosecutor conspired to frame two innocent men of these crimes, and over the course of the next two decades, state officials continued to cover up those misdeeds.
Herbert Whitlock and Gordon “Randy” Steidl were convicted of the murders in 1987 (Steidl for both deaths and Whitlock for Karen’s). They spent the…
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