Brown's Chicken Massacre
If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that they are not always simply about the crime. Sometimes it is about the justice system that includes things like fair trials, evidence presented, and sometimes it is about my opinion in the guilt or innocence of the person or people accused. It was many of this latter things that had me flip-flopping on my feelings on the case throughout the time I was researching this case. In the end however, I believe that it has to be one of those cases that common sense has to come into play when deciding if the correct perpetrators were taken to trial. Sixteen year old Michael Castro was working at Brown's Chicken and Pasta in Palatine Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on January 8, 1993. The restaurant had closed at 9 pm but a few hours later he had not returned home and his parents were worried and called the police. A short time later the wife of Guadalupe Maldonado also called the police stating her husband had not returned h...