Twists and turns in gay sex triangle fag rage mystery as Northwestern professor, U.K. man arrested in stabbing death

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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First came the slaying of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau.

It was a mystery in itself: The 26-year-old Chicagoan last week was found
lying face down on the floor of a Northwestern University professor’s
bedroom, dead from stab wounds and slashes to the back. The professor,
Wyndham Lathem, disappeared with Andrew Warren, an employee at Oxford
University in England. Warren had flown into Chicago for his first trip to
the United States on July 24, just three days before the attack.

The gruesome crime set off an intense nationwide manhunt for the men and
drew international interest. A series of curious details that surfaced
Thursday and Friday deepened the story’s suspense. In bars and on CTA
buses, people mulled over the latest twists.

Like how investigators believe one of the suspects made a $1,000 donation
in Cornell-Duranleau’s name at a library in Lake Geneva, Wis., hours after
they allegedly killed him.

Or why Lathem, a 42-year-old associate professor of microbiology, sent a
video message to family and friends apologizing for “his involvement” in
the slaying. In the video, he said something to the effect that he’d made
“the biggest mistake of his life,” said chief Chicago police spokesman
Anthony Guglielmi, who could not say when the video was made or when it
was sent out.

On Friday, Lathem and Warren, 56, were taken into custody “without
incident” by authorities in California, officials said. Lathem surrendered
to U.S. marshals at the federal courthouse in Oakland, and Warren was
arrested in San Francisco. Both men were wanted on charges of first-degree
murder.

Lathem was spotted in the evening outside of the courthouse by himself,
and appeared calm but tired, said Michael McCloud, fugitive task force
commander with the U.S. Marshals Service, who helped take Lathem into
custody. Lathem’s eyes were puffy. He looked like he hadn’t shaved in days
and was wearing dark blue sweatpants, a light gray T-shirt and
“wraparound” sandals.

“He looked a little disheveled, like he hadn’t slept much the last couple
of days, but at the same time there was a look of relief,” McCloud said.
“Relief because of stress, of being on the run for a week.”

Lathem’s attorney, Barry Sheppard, said he helped facilitate the
professor’s surrender, and said he expects the man will waive extradition
at his next court appearance, likely on Monday. The attorney said he last
spoke with Lathem by phone.

“He sounded composed,” said Sheppard, whose son Adam Sheppard is also
representing Lathem, along with a California-based attorney. He touted
Lathem’s accomplishments as a microbiologist, and said he doesn’t know
much about the case other than what’s been reported in the news.

“We hope that anyone who reads about the case doesn’t have a rush to
judgment,” he said. “There’s a wide possibility of scenarios that could
have occurred here.”

Lathem was booked into the Alameda County Jail. On Saturday night, Alameda
County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Kelly said he didn’t think Lathem was having an
easy time in jail.

“He’s not doing well, psychologically, in jail,” Kelly said. “We’re
keeping an eye on him.”

About 6:30 p.m. Friday, Warren walked into the San Francisco Police
Department’s Park District station by himself and surrendered, said
Officer Grace Gatpandan, a spokesperson for the department. Warren had not
communicated with San Francisco officers before he turned himself in to
police, she said. He was being held early Saturday without bail at San
Francisco County Jail, according to the San Francisco’s sheriff’s
department.

Lathem and Warren will appear in court and likely be returned to Chicago,
perhaps toward the end of the week, where they will be interrogated by
homicide detectives, Guglielmi said. Once the questioning is complete,
detectives will hold a press conference outlining the case before the men
appear in bond court, he said.

In a statement posted on Twitter Friday night, Chicago police said both
men will be held accountable for their actions. “We hope today’s arrest
brings some small level of closure and justice” for Trenton Cornell-
Duranleau’s family, police said.

What’s yet to be revealed is any alleged motive for the slaying.

Cornell-Duranleau, who had been living in the Heart of Chicago
neighborhood, grew up in the small town of Lennon in eastern Michigan. He
attended high school in Grand Rapids and earned a state certification in
cosmetology in 2011. He moved to Chicago last year, telling friends he got
a job at a salon in the city. He was funny and personable, his friends
said, and always seemed to find a home wherever he landed, even when he
moved to Chicago.

In an obituary posted by his mother, Mischelle Duranleau said her son
“loved music and animals. His enthusiasm for life was infectious. Trenton
was a caregiver and loved to help others. His youthful free-spirit fueled
his love of cars, video games and cartoons.”

Police believe he was killed in Lathem’s apartment in the 500 block of
North State Street around 5 a.m. July 27. But officers were not alerted
until an anonymous caller reached the front desk of the building around
8:30 p.m., more than 15 hours later. Authorities found Cornell-Duranleau
dead from stab wounds to his back. Blood was everywhere, police said. In
the kitchen, police found a knife with a broken blade in the trash can and
another knife near the sink.

Police said they suspect Lathem fled with Warren. Both men were seen on
surveillance video at the building, police said.

Around 5 p.m. that same day, more than three hours before the body was
discovered, one of the suspects walked into the library in Lake Geneva and
approached the circulation desk, according to Lake Geneva police Lt.
Edward Gritzner. The man told a staffer he wanted to make a donation in
the name of Cornell-Duranleau but asked to remain anonymous. The staffer
accepted $1,000 in cash from the man, who turned and left through the main
door. No one saw him get into the car.

The man did not specify what he wanted the money to be used for, and
Gritzner described it as a “general” donation. It wasn’t anything unusual
for the library.

Authorities have so far offered little information about what may have led
to the attack. Lathem and Cornell-Duranleau were involved in some sort of
relationship and had “some type of falling out,” Guglielmi said. He could
not elaborate on the relationship and could not say how Warren knew Lathem
and Cornell-Duranleau. Sources say Lathem and Cornell-Duranleau were
dating.

Warren, a senior treasury assistant at Somerville College, had disappeared
this summer, making the trip to the United States without telling his
sister or his boyfriend in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. His friends wonder
whether the death of his father in a car crash eight months ago played a
role in his behavior. He had confided in them that he was depressed and
still grieving.

Lathem was known as a driven scientist whose work on the plague known as
the Black Death made national headlines in 2015. He joined Northwestern in
2007 and worked primarily in a research lab within the Department of
Microbiology-Immunology at the Feinberg School of Medicine. William
Goldman, who advised Lathem as a postdoctoral student between 2003 and
2007 at Washington University in St. Louis, was shocked by the news of the
stabbing. He said Lathem was driven by excellence — a model scientist.

U.S. marshals were able to catch up with Lathem while he was on the run
because they knew he had friends and family in the Bay Area. Those people
said they’d learned Lathem was in the area, but at some point, McCloud
said, the lead “went cold.” Then it started heating up again. U.S.
marshals confirmed Lathem was in the area and a request was made for a
“safe surrender.”

Lathem was cooperative during his surrender, and did not have anything
dangerous on him. While the U.S. marshals explained the process moving
forward, Lathem had some concerns.

“How do I get money?” McCloud recalls Lathem asking. “You mean I don’t get
to eat?”

The marshals explained that he would be fed three times a day, and that he
could have money placed on the “books” that he could use for chips or
cookies in the commissary. Lathem then asked the marshals to define what a
commissary was.

Those types of questions, McCloud said, make Lathem’s case unusual.

“He didn’t have a criminal history,” he said. “Most of the investigations
we conduct are (with) people that have histories.”


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