Four Bodies Found in Suburban Chicago HOme
tiny dancer
September 29, 2005 - Four people were found dead in a west suburban home
Thursday. Police are trying to figure out what happened. They say the
victims showed signs of severe trauma. The bodies were found in a home in
the White Eagle subdivision of Aurora. It is an upscale community built
around a golf course of the same name.
People who live in the area say it is an exclusive neighborhood and it is
patrolled by security 24 hours a day. They are quite shaken up at this
gruesome discovery of four bodies in a home owned by a couple who lived
there just a few years, but made good impressions on their neighbors.
This is the first time in a while Aurora police have had to investigate
multiple deaths at one time. Now they are trying to find out why four people
were found dead inside the home at 3540 Jeremy Ranch Court. They made the
discovery during a well-being check of the house.
What prompted the welfare check?
"A family member made that inquiry is my understanding. Why they were
motivated to do so, I don't have that information," said Lt. Rusty Sullivan,
Aurora Police Department.
While police waited for a search warrant to enter the house and continue
their investigation, relatives of the deceased stood outside the home as did
neighbors who say they knew the couple who lived in the house and identified
them as Jim and Kate Tsao, although police have not said whether they were
among the four dead. But they do say, however, that all four victims
suffered severe trauma.
"We are just all in shock that this has happened down the street from us to
people that you'd never suspect," said Marilyn Krueger, neighbor.
Neighbors say the couple who lived in the home exported electronic goods to
Taiwan. They also are on edge because they say their exclusive neighborhood
is very safe.
"It's very unusual for this neighborhood, White Eagle. It is a very upscale
community, and everybody gets along with everybody else, and it's very
unusual," said Carmie Summers, neighbor.
As of Thursday night, police still had no suspects and no one in custody,
but they are one step closer to getting a search warrant to let them get in
the house to further their investigation.
An initial investigation showed no sign of forced entry to the home,
Sullivan said.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3490419
cro...@earthlink.net
USA imports TONS of electronics from Asia...case surely does not sound
random...I have a horrid feeling it may be 2 adults (mother and father) and
two children...
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> EXPORTED electronic goods to Taiwan...that sounds backwards...after all,
the
> USA imports TONS of electronics from Asia...case surely does not sound
> random...I have a horrid feeling it may be 2 adults (mother and father)
and
> two children...
The neighbors said it was a young couple, childless, so probably not. I
read somewhere else that it was two adult males, two adult females. The
house is like a mansion, did you check out the photo? The couple's
profession does sound a bit strange to me though, exporting used computer
parts?? Must be a lot of money in that to afford a huge home on a golf
course.
td
cro...@earthlink.net
players, etc. Now, that is different!
No, I did not see the photos...a couple with another couple visiting or
staying there? Any chance for a murder/suicide? I guess we will have to
wait and see...
I note the homeowners have a Chinese/Asian-sounding last name, I wonder if
we will find any exotic angles such as the fortuneteller murder w/ the white
painted faces, etc.
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Indigo Ace
4 bodies discovered in upscale Aurora neighborhood
Tribune staff reports
Published September 29, 2005, 6:39 PM CDT
The bodies of four people were discovered Thursday afternoon in a home
in an affluent neighborhood on Aurora's far-east side.
Aurora police confirmed that they are investigating the deaths of two
adult men and two adult women. The investigation is in its early
stages and police released little information Thursday evening.
Neighbors said the home belonged to a young couple with no children.
The couple had family visiting, neighbors said.
The crime came as a shock to the residents of Jeremy Ranch Court, a
quiet cul-de-sac in the White Eagle Golf Club subdivision.
"It's Pleasantville. There's nothing going on here," said neighbor Jim
Leib, 53. "If we see a fire truck, someone overcooked the bacon."
Neighbors said police arrived at the home Thursday afternoon.
Co-workers of the wife summoned police to the home, neighbors said.
They became concerned because the woman had not shown up to work.
Teri Koziel, 49, lives two doors down from the couple. She said she
hadn't seen the couple who lived there for several days.
The neighborhood is patrolled frequently by Aurora police and a
private security firm.
"This just shocks me," Koziel said. "This is a very quiet couple. Not
a lot of activity."
Copyright © 2005, Chicago Tribune
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E/C Annie
tiny dancer wrote:
> Four bodies found in Aurora home
Names and family details included in this piece. annie
AURORA - The bodies of four people were found inside a home on the
city's far southeast side Thursday, according to police, who are
looking for "persons of interest" on the West Coast.
The gruesome scene unfolded shortly after 2 p.m. inside a stately
two-story brick house at 3540 Jeremy Ranch Court, a quiet cul-de-sac in
the tony White Eagle subdivision.
Police were called to the home by a relative who had stopped by and
peered through a window to see a woman lying dead on the floor, police
said.
Once officers arrived, they found three more adults dead in a separate
part of the house.
Aurora police Lt. Rusty Sullivan would say only that the victims -
two men and two women - had suffered "severe trauma."
"We are exploring several avenues as well as several leads," he said.
He said no signs of forced entry were found, and no weapons were
"readily visible" inside the home.
The possible suspect, described only as a relative of several of the
victims, reportedly had fled en route to the West Coast, possibly
California.
Investigators waited more than eight hours for a DuPage County judge to
sign a warrant allowing them to search the home and entered shortly
after 10:30 p.m. with cameras and evidence-collection equipment. The
bodies remained inside the home late Thursday.
Sullivan said the unusual delay was the result of a precise attention
to detail in a case officials would call only a "death investigation."
Detectives, meanwhile, had interviewed several relatives in Aurora,
Naperville and other neighboring suburbs, although "no formal
interrogations had been conducted," he said.
No one was in custody as of 11 p.m.
Neighbors said the home is owned by Jimmy and Kate Tsao, a young couple
in their early 30s with no children. Police would not rule out the
possibility that they were among the victims.
One of the three vehicles parked in the driveway belonged to the Tsaos,
while another belonged to Kate Tsao's parents, who live in Naperville.
Their home also was cordoned off by police and searched late Thursday.
Homeowners a 'nice couple'
The Tsaos - who had lived in the home for four years - were
described as warm and affable, although no one in the neighborhood said
they were close friends with the couple.
Jimmy Tsao was originally from Taiwan, while his wife - a part-time
college student - was American-born, neighbors said.
"They were a really nice couple," said next-door neighbor Buck Baumert,
who added that he had never seen them arguing or doing anything out of
the ordinary. "They were real laid back, real quiet."
Others who lived all along the block said they saw Kate outside almost
every day, working on the flowers and shrubs that decorated the
carefully landscaped property.
"She was a sweet woman," said another neighbor, Theresa Kosanda, who
had shared dinner with the couple on several occasions. "She takes care
of my yard when I'm on vacation."
Jimmy Tsao's passion appeared to have been cars, neighbors said, as
they recalled his reputation for buying a new luxury vehicle every few
months: Ferraris, Mercedes-Benzes, Porsches and Range Rovers.
He was also an avid golfer who shared tee times with several neighbors
at the subdivision's golf club.
Property records show they bought the sizeable corner-lot house
together in 2001 for $425,000.
Family business
One neighbor, who used to play cards with Jimmy regularly, said that
the Tsaos' wealth came from the family business of exporting used
computers from North America to Asia. The neighbor, who asked not to be
identified, said Jimmy Tsao and his brother ran the business, which
they had inherited from their father.
Jimmy Tsao was not listed as a member of any major local business
associations, and several local business leaders said Thursday that
they were unfamiliar with any company by that description.
The scene outside the house was vaguely surreal, with scores of police
officers and DuPage County coroner's investigators standing around for
hours waiting for the warrant that would allow them inside.
Outside the ring of yellow crime scene tape, a large crowd of neighbors
waited for news and speculated about what might have happened.
Salil Kapra, 17, a Neuqua Valley High School student who lives across
the street from the Tsaos, said he was taking the bus home when he
noticed police cars and ambulances whizzing past along Montgomery Road.
"Then, we came into White Eagle, and there was all of this chaos," he
said. "It was shocking. We've lived here 14 years, and there's never
been anything like this."
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/top/AU30_BODIES_S1.htm
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middle w/o any lead-up info...
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JonesieCat
right? Wonder if the wife had a sibling who's now the one who's enroute to
Calif?
JC
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E/C Annie
September 30, 2005
A 28-year-old relative of the four people found slain in an Aurora home
has been taken into custody by police in Wisconsin, sources said today.
Eric C. Hanson, of Naperville, was stopped this morning on Interstate
90 by while driving near the Wisconsin Dells and is expected to be
returned to Illinois to be questioned about the deaths.
Authorities preliminarily identified the victims as Jimmy Tsao, 34, and
his 31-year-old wife, Kate. The couple lived in the upscale home in the
White Eagle subdivision where all four bodies were found Thursday
afternoon.
The other two victims are believed to be Kate Tsao's parents,
Terrance Hanson, 57, and his wife, Mary, 55, DuPage County authorities
said.
Eric Hanson is their son and had been living with them in their
Naperville home on Rock Spring Court, authorities said.
His parents, sister and brother-in-law were discovered slain about 2:45
p.m. Thursday when police entered the home after a relative who came to
the home looked through a window and reported seeing a body inside.
Autopsies were being done on the four victims, who appeared to have
been severely beaten, Aurora police and DuPage County officials said.
Some may also have been shot, although autopsy results were still
pending.
The four appeared to have been killed late Wednesday night or early
Thursday, a source said.
The source said Eric Hanson apparently had left the Chicago area
Thursday morning, flying to Los Angeles - a flight that had been
booked previously.
Hanson returned to the Chicago area early today and was stopped by
Wisconsin state police as he drove north on Interstate 90.
His family owns summer cabins in northern Wisconsin and also in
Minnesota, the source said.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/fourdead30.html
tiny dancer
Wonder why he came back from L.A.?
Thanks for the update annie.
td
>
Indigo Ace
Naperville man arrested in Wisconsin in Aurora deaths
Relative held in slayings of 4 in Aurora
By James Kimberly and Angela Rozas, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune
staff reporters Crystal Yednak, Brett McNeil, Art Barnum, David
Heinzmann, Jeff Coen, Todd Lighty, Hal Dardick and John Biemer cont
Published October 1, 2005
A 28-year-old relative of the four people found dead Thursday in an
upscale Aurora neighborhood was arrested Friday in Wisconsin, law
enforcement officials said.
Illinois authorities had notified police in a 40-mile area in
south-central Wisconsin to be on the lookout for a Chevrolet Blazer
with an Illinois license plate driven by the Naperville man. On Friday
morning, a Wisconsin State patrolman near Madison spotted a Blazer
fitting that description on Interstate Highway 90/94, according to
Columbia County Detective Sgt. Dan Garrigan.
The driver locked eyes with the officer but kept driving at a normal
speed as the patrolman followed the Blazer and called for backup,
Garrigan said.
Soon after, the driver exited at Wisconsin Highway 60 near Arlington
Township. There, authorities from the Columbia County sheriff's
office, the Lodi Police Department and the FBI in Illinois surrounded
the vehicle. The man, who was alone, was taken into custody without
resistance, Garrigan said, and was being held in the County Jail.
Garrigan declined to identify the man but said he was not armed and
did not appear to be shaken up upon his arrest. "He just appeared
normal, really," Garrigan said.
The Tribune is not naming the man because he has not been charged with
a crime in this case.
Aurora officials Friday sought to calm the community.
"It is our belief that there is absolutely no threat to the public,"
said Aurora Police Lt. Rusty Sullivan.
Police found the four people dead shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday in
Jimmy and Katherine Tsao's two-story red brick home in the 3500 block
of Jeremy Ranch Court. The home is in a subdivision surrounding the
White Eagle Golf Club. Police went to the home after a relative told
police she could not reach the Tsaos.
Authorities Friday identified the victims as Jimmy Tsao, 34; his wife,
Katherine Tsao, 31, and her parents--Terrance Hanson, 57, and Mary
Hanson, 55, both of the 500 block of Rock Spring Court in
Naperville.The DuPage County coroner's office was performing autopsies
Friday afternoon to determine the causes of death, but officials said
the process was slowed by the severity of the injuries. Police would
not say what kind of weapon was used but indicated the victims
suffered "blunt force trauma."
Aurora police said Friday the FBI was seeking at least one "person of
interest" who was believed to have flown earlier this week to
California. Later Sullivan said "persons of interest" could mean
witnesses.
"We're not calling anybody a suspect," Sullivan said.
The Naperville man has a misdemeanor criminal history. When he was 18
and living in a suburb north of Detroit, he pleaded guilty in May 1995
to breaking into four homes in Rochester Hills, Mich., according to an
Oakland County court spokeswoman.
In at least two of the incidents, he broke into residential garages.
From one he took a set of golf clubs that he tried to sell on
consignment at a local Play It Again Sports store, according to the
man whose clubs were taken. He took nothing from the other garage as
he fled on foot after being surprised by the family's teenage son,
records show.
He was sentenced to 273 days in jail and was allowed to serve all but
70 days in a boot camp for youthful offenders, said the Oakland County
court spokeswoman. But he failed to pay restitution. That violated the
terms of his probation, so a judge ordered him to prison for a minimum
of 18 months in February 1997.
DuPage County court records show he was charged with trying to steal
$907 worth of Ralph Lauren clothes from the Von Maur department store
in Lombard two days after Christmas in 1998. He was also charged with
battery for allegedly biting a sales clerk who tried to stop him.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 180 days in jail. He sought to
be sent to a boot camp for adults but was denied by authorities
because of his Michigan prison record.
Neighbors in Aurora described the Tsaos as a friendly couple with
typical leisure pursuits such as golf and gardening.
On Friday, the house was cordoned off as a crime scene with yellow and
green police ribbon. Four white crosses with the four victims' names
stood in the front yard along with plastic flowers.
Jimmy Tsao, who attended Michigan State University, worked at a
computer exporting company based in a Plainfield warehouse.
Tsao formed the company in 1996 with two relatives, calling it Ta Tsen
Trading, but it also used the name TTT Inc. on his Web site.
Kate Tsao graduated from Aurora University in November 2003 with a
bachelor's degree in communications, a university spokeswoman said.
Terrance Hanson worked as a sales manager for Ashland Distribution, a
chemical and plastic distribution business owned by Ashland Inc.
A longtime employee of the company, Hanson was based out of Willow
Springs and described by a company spokesman as a "truly valued
member" of the organization.
Mary Hanson worked at MetLife in Aurora.
Her coworkers called authorities Thursday when she failed to report to
work and they could not reach her or her husband.
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Uncle Buck
Ace) wrote:
>From the Chicago Tribune--
>
>4 bodies discovered in upscale Aurora neighborhood
>
>Tribune staff reports
>Published September 29, 2005, 6:39 PM CDT
>
>The bodies of four people were discovered Thursday afternoon in a home
>in an affluent neighborhood on Aurora's far-east side.
<snip>
>"It's Pleasantville. There's nothing going on here," said neighbor Jim
>Leib, 53. "If we see a fire truck, someone overcooked the bacon."
Uh-oh. Does this mean they're gonna' start seeing "colored's" around?
{=-O
(Movie reference, in case you didn't get it)
--
L8r,
Uncle Buck
_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=
Those first to step up and say,
"Now is not the time for placing blame"
...
...are quite often to blame....
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Uncle Buck
Ace) wrote:
<snip>
>The man, who was alone, was taken into custody without
>resistance, Garrigan said, and was being held in the County Jail.
<snip>
>"It is our belief that there is absolutely no threat to the public,"
>said Aurora Police Lt. Rusty Sullivan.
Does that mean they think he did it and now they've got him in custody
so he won't be doing it again?
<snip>
>officials said
>the process was slowed by the severity of the injuries.
I can see the perp of this crime surrendering peacefully. Seriously,
I'm not being facetious. It's strange how that often works. If I'd
just been on a homicidal rage, I can't fathom any other reaction when
I knew the jig was up.
<snip>
>Jimmy Tsao, who attended Michigan State University, worked at a
>computer exporting company based in a Plainfield warehouse.
>
>Tsao formed the company in 1996 with two relatives, calling it Ta Tsen
>Trading, but it also used the name TTT Inc. on his Web site.
>
>Kate Tsao graduated from Aurora University in November 2003 with a
>bachelor's degree in communications, a university spokeswoman said.
>
>Terrance Hanson worked as a sales manager for Ashland Distribution, a
>chemical and plastic distribution business owned by Ashland Inc.
>
>A longtime employee of the company, Hanson was based out of Willow
>Springs and described by a company spokesman as a "truly valued
>member" of the organization.
>
>Mary Hanson worked at MetLife in Aurora.
>
>Her coworkers called authorities Thursday when she failed to report to
>work and they could not reach her or her husband.
So many promising futures... gone. And for what? I wonder.
cro...@earthlink.net
to be the case here.
you are right, the "no danger to the public" means either "we got our guy"
or "we know who the guy is and it was not a random crime, so you don't have
to be afeared in your beds..."
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>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:57:35 GMT, indi...@seesignature.com (Indigo
>Ace) wrote:
>
>>From the Chicago Tribune--
>>
>>4 bodies discovered in upscale Aurora neighborhood
>>
>>Tribune staff reports
>>Published September 29, 2005, 6:39 PM CDT
>>
>>The bodies of four people were discovered Thursday afternoon in a home
>>in an affluent neighborhood on Aurora's far-east side.
><snip>
>>"It's Pleasantville. There's nothing going on here," said neighbor Jim
>>Leib, 53. "If we see a fire truck, someone overcooked the bacon."
>
>Uh-oh. Does this mean they're gonna' start seeing "colored's" around?
>{=-O
>
>(Movie reference, in case you didn't get it)
Flew right past me, sorry.