United States v. Debra A. Hartmann, Kenneth K. Kaenel, and John Scott Korabik

BAUER, Chief Judge.

In the early evening of June 8, 1982, Werner Hartmann, the owner of a successful stereo sales business in Chicago’s northern suburbs, was brutally murdered in his home in Northbrook, Illinois. The following morning, police found Werner’s bullet-ridden body sprawled naked in a second-floor bedroom. After years of investigation, Werner’s wife Debra Hartmann, her lover at the time of the murder, John Scott Korabik, and Korabik’s friend and associate Kenneth K. Kaenel, were charged in a thirty-count superseding indictment with violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1341, and 1343 (mail…