Felix Sarver

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A Lockport man has been charged with the 2024 murder of his wife. About 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Eric Strasser, 62, was taken to the Will County jail on a charge of the first-degree murder of Rosy Strasser, 51, who was found dead from a gunshot wound in a bathroom at a residence in the 900 block of McKinley Court on May 1, 2024. Eric Strasser was the only person who was present at the time officers arrived, according to a statement from the Lockport Police Department.

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Motorcycle operators leading the funeral procession on Friday, April 18, 2025, outside Tezak Funeral Home in Joliet, for for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jose Dueñez Jr. He was one of four soldiers who died March 31, 2025 when their armored vehicle sunk in a bog during a training mission in Lithuania. (Felix Sarver)Felix SarverFelix Sarver covers crime and courts for The Herald-News

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A Joliet man has pleaded guilty to concealing the death of a woman in Crest Hill and he was sentenced to serve 50% of a roughly six-year prison sentence for that offense. On March 26, Kelvanti Lawrence, 31, pleaded guilty to concealment of a death and unlawful possession of a weapon by felon as part of a plea deal. After Jeanie Bresley, 44, overdosed on drugs and died, Lawrence had moved her body to a different location on Sept. 17, 2023, according to prosecutors.

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A 65-year-old man died in a single-vehicle crash in Frankfort where the vehicle struck multiple fire hydrants and a tree, police said. About 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to the crash in the 21600 block of Wolf Road, according to a statement from the Frankfort Police Department. Paramedics found a single vehicle that struck multiple fire hydrants and a tree, police said. The driver was Leonard Hawrysio, 65, of New Lenox, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.

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A 54-year-old man has died from a fire Wednesday in Joliet Township. Firefighters with the East Joliet Fire Protection District responded to the fire about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of Pontiac Street. Firefighters learned there was “one occupant still inside the house,” according to a statement from East Joliet Fire Protection District. That occupant was Leonard Younge, 54, who died as a “result of a residential fire,” according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.