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A weeklong hunt for a missing Wisconsin 49-year-old woman came to a close in April when police discovered her body in the basement of an abandoned farmhouse in southern Kane County.

Linda Duchaine was in the area visiting her daughter, Lisa Payne, when police allege a domestic dispute escalated into murder.

Authorities say Duchaine and her daughter were savagely beaten by Payne's ex-husband, Joseph Foreman Jr., inside the Batavia apartment where Payne and Foreman lived.

Payne, 31, would be hospitalized. But Duchaine was taken from the Lorlyn Circle apartment and left to die alone in the dark basement of a two-story house off Dauberman Road in Kaneville Township.

A career criminal wanted in at least two states before the attack, Foreman, 38, eluded police for days before he was discovered in Aurora. He faces three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated domestic abuse. If convicted, Foreman could face the death penalty.

Priest pleads guilty

The man who gave the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal a name and face in Kane County, Mark Campobello, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse in May.

Campobello, a former vice principal at Aurora Central Catholic High School and a former associate pastor at St. Peter Catholic Church in Geneva, had been charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse stemming from relationships he had with two teens in 1999 and 2000.

The charges stemmed from incidents that occurred between January and May 1999 involving a student at St. Peter Elementary School who was 14 at the time, Geneva police said. Additional counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse were added later.

Campobello also was charged in November 2003 with three counts of criminal sexual abuse after a second girl came forward claiming Campobello improperly touched her while she was a student at Aurora Central Catholic between November 1999 and March 2000. The girl, who was 16 and 17 at the time of the abuse, contacted prosecutors following media reports of the initial charges.

Under the terms of the deal, Campobello, 39, was sentenced to eight years in prison - four years for each count - and register as a sex offender.

Throughout the investigation into the abuse allegations against Campobello, the church and the Rockford Diocese to which it belongs came under fire for not fully cooperating with requests from prosecutors for personnel files and the internal handling of the case.

Save a prison

In February, the governor made the announcement: The Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles would be closed.

Ah, but it wouldn't be quite that simple.

Union leaders organized employees at the juvenile prison and some more influential friends weighed in as well. Local state politicians...

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