The Suicide of Joe Glinewicz
Once again I have decided to do a more unique crime. It does involve a death but the death itself was determined not to be a crime. The crime was embezzlement and money laundering but that did not come out until later. But, when Joe Gliniewicz died it was initially believed it was murder and because he was a police officer it entailed a full scale manhunt. Fox Lake Illinois is almost two hours northwest of Chicago and sits on near the Wisconsin border. When Joe Gliniewicz died in September of 2015 tensions were high all over the country between police officers and especially African Americans. It had been building for some time as it was but the murders of Eric Garner in July 2014 in New York and Michael Brown in August of 2014 in Missouri had truly brought the issue to the forefront. Garner and Brown had both died at the hands of police officers. They were both African Americans and the officers involved in their deaths were white men. Even today in 2018 you r...