Legal Opinion
Andrew Kokoraleis v. Jerry Gilmore, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 12, 1998No. 97-2605PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Andrew Kokoraleis has confessed to killing as many as 18 women. His confessions narrate a ghastly routine: kidnapping, rape, torture, stabbing victims to death with knives or ice picks, mutilating the corpses, and hiding the remains. • Some victims had a breast amputated by piano wire. . Kokoraleis and his confederates (his brother Thomas Koko-raleis, Robin Gecht, and Edward Spreitzer) would masturbate on and then eat the victim’s breast. A jury convicted Kokoraleis of killing Lorraine Borowski and sentenced him to death. The Supreme Court of Illinois affirmed, 132…
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