Simkunas v. Tardi

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MAROVITZ, Senior District Judge.

This case concerns the savage rape and murder of a young woman, and the subsequent police investigation of that brutal crime. In the four decades of experience on the bench, this court cannot recall a case that was such a conglomeration of bizarre facts and circumstances. On December 20, 1982, Susan Marie Schaaf (hereinafter, “Schaaf”) was raped and murdered in her Hickory Hills, Illinois apartment. That same afternoon, the Hickory Hills Police Department (“HHPD”) began its investigation of the rape and murder of Schaaf.

On September…