Illinois officials deny release for parole-eligible killer
Source: Associated Press
Don Babwin, Associated Press
Updated 8:09 pm, Friday, September 29, 2017
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois authorities refused Friday to release a parole-eligible convicted murderer who is suspected of being part of the notorious "Ripper Crew" that brutally killed as many as 20 women in the 1980s, determining that he lacks an approved place to live.
Thomas Kokoraleis was scheduled to be released on parole after serving 35 years in prison for the 1982 slaying of a suburban Chicago woman. The Illinois Department of Corrections' website still lists Friday as his release day.
Prisoners who are released on parole must have what is called an "approved host site," meaning an address where parole officers can regularly find him. The Chicago Tribune reported Kokoraleis' older brother said he will not be living with him or anyone else in the family.
Officials won't be able to hold Kokoraleis indefinitely, even if he is unable to find a place to live. Sept. 30, 2020, is his discharge date, meaning the day he is no longer the responsibility of the corrections department or under the control of a parole office. And, just as his 70-year sentence was cut in half due to good behavior, his time on parole also could be reduced.
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Chicago Ripper Crew
Earlier article:
Member of Sadistic Ripper Crew Coming up for Parole in Illinois
August 12, 2017
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Besides Borowski and Sutton, the victims whose deaths resulted in murder convictions included:
• Shui Mak, 30, of Lombard, disappeared in May 1982 in Hanover Park. After an argument with a brother while the two drove home from the family’s Streamwood restaurant, Mak got out of the car, never to be seen alive again. Spreitzer later was convicted.
• Sandra Delaware, 18, was stabbed and strangled in Chicago in August 1982. Spreitzer was convicted.
• Rose Beck Davis, a 30-year-old marketing executive, was abducted, raped, beaten with an ax and fatally stabbed in September 1982 in Chicago’s posh Gold Coast neighborhood. Spreitzer and Andrew Kokoraleis were convicted.
• Raphael Torado, 28, was shot while standing at a phone booth in Chicago in October 1982. Spreitzer was convicted.
Sutton was the first known victim. The 26-year-old mother of two, who had a history of prostitution arrests, was found mutilated outside a motel near Villa Park where Spreitzer was living after the men abducted her near Wrigley Field in May 1981.
Her brother, Chester Sutton, said his sister was the youngest of seven siblings and their mother’s “baby girl.” After the murder, he said, their mother raised her slain daughter’s kids.
“Obviously it was a really hard, trying time,” Sutton told the Tribune. “I remember when they first caught these people and, as a family, we all showed up in DuPage County for the trial. Afterward, my mom didn’t want to go back anymore because it was just too gruesome and difficult to hear what Linda went through.”
If Thomas Kokoraleis is released next month, Sutton and his sister, Ethel, said they are at peace.
“We’re a Christian family,” Chester Sutton said. “God will have the final word.”
But the slain woman’s children, Antone and Shavonna Sutton, who were 9 and 1 at the time of their mother’s death, said Kokoraleis is where he belongs. They said their mother’s legacy lives on in them, and the five grandchildren she never got to meet.
“We were cheated out of a life with our mother,” Antone Sutton said. “If the Lord is willing, we want to keep him locked up the rest of his life. If he gets out, where is he going to go? Is he still going to roam the streets?”
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