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4 found dead in Aurora

Police seek suspect who took flight from Midway

 

By Angela Rozas and James Kimberly, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune staff reporters Art Barnum, Crystal Yednak, Virginia Groark, David Heinzmann, Brett McNeil, Joseph Sjostrom and correspondent Rita

Published September 30, 2005

 

Four adults were found dead Thursday in the Aurora home of a Plainfield computer exporter after a relative became concerned at not reaching the residents at their home and called police, authorities said.

 

Police had not identified the bodies as of late Thursday. Jimmy Tsao, 34, and his wife, Kate, 31, owned the home in the upscale subdivision surrounding the White Eagle Golf Club.

 

A law enforcement source confirmed that police were seeking a suspect who left Midway Airport on a domestic flight.

 

Lt. Rusty Sullivan said police have spoken to relatives of the Tsaos but not the homeowners themselves.

 

Late Thursday, Sullivan said, "based on our ongoing investigation, this has now changed from a death investigation to a murder investigation," and that police want to talk "to other parties outside of Illinois."

 

There were no signs of forced entry to the two-story, red brick home at Jeremy Ranch Court and Monarch Circle, and it did not appear that anything had been stolen, Sullivan said.

 

"We're not saying it [a burglary] didn't occur, but it wasn't readily apparent," Sullivan said.

 

One or more of the people suffered blunt force trauma, Sullivan said. Police did not find a weapon at the scene, he said.

 

Autopsies are expected to be performed Friday. If the deaths are ruled homicides, it would be the first quadruple homicide in DuPage County.

 

Sullivan said detectives were interviewing numerous people in DuPage and Aurora.

 

The crime occurred in a neighborhood described by residents as quiet and secure, patrolled frequently by a private security firm and Aurora police. Families with children live alongside older couples.

 

Neighbors were stunned by the deaths. Homeowner Jim Lieb said violent crime is unheard-of in the neighborhood.

 

"It's Pleasantville. There's nothing going on here," said Lieb, 53. "If we see a firetruck, [it's because] someone overcooked the bacon."

 

"This just shocks me," said Tom Purpura, who moved to the neighborhood about the same time as the Tsaos. "This is a very quiet couple."

 

According to neighbors and public records, the Tsaos moved to the neighborhood in 2001. Neighbors said the couple has no children.

 

Neighbors described the couple as friendly.

 

Jimmy Tsao worked at a Plainfield business that refurbished computers and exported them, neighbors said. Kate Tsao also worked outside the home, they said.

 

"They're a nice couple. She took up gardening. Jimmy liked to golf," neighbor Thomas Kosanda said.

 

Police were summoned to the house shortly after 2 p.m. by a relative checking on them because Kate Tsao had not gone to work.

 

Sullivan said police and firefighters entered the home and discovered a body on the first floor. Police searched the house and discovered the other three bodies, he said.

 

Sullivan would not say where in the house the bodies were found.

 

DuPage has had three triple homicides in the last decade.

 

On Sept. 14, 2004, Federico Torres, 36; Guillermo Armendariz, 36; and Hilario Ochos, 25; all of Texas, were shot to death in the parking lot of a Willowbrook restaurant.

 

Hector Moya, 30, of Cicero is charged with all three slayings. Drug trafficking is suspected in the deaths. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty if Moya is convicted. His trial is pending.

 

In March 1999, Marilyn Lemak drugged and suffocated her three children, Nicholas, 7, Emily, 6, and Thomas 4, in her Naperville home. A jury rejected her claim of insanity, and she is serving a life sentence in prison.

 

And on Nov. 16 and 17, 1995, Debra Evans, 28, was killed in her Addison apartment as a live unborn child was cut from her womb. Samantha, her 10-year-old daughter, also was slain in the apartment, and her son Joshua, 7, was kidnapped and found murdered the next day in a Maywood alley.

 

Lavern Ward, Fedell Caffey and Jacqueline Williams were all convicted and are serving life sentences. Caffey and Williams originally were sentenced to death, but they were taken off Death Row when former Gov. George Ryan commuted all death sentences to life in prison in 2003.

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4 found dead in Aurora

Police seek suspect who took flight from Midway

 

By Angela Rozas and James Kimberly, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune staff reporters Art Barnum, Crystal Yednak, Virginia Groark, David Heinzmann, Brett McNeil, Joseph Sjostrom and correspondent Rita

Published September 30, 2005

 

Four adults were found dead Thursday in the Aurora home of a Plainfield computer exporter after a relative became concerned at not reaching the residents at their home and called police, authorities said.

 

Police had not identified the bodies as of late Thursday. Jimmy Tsao, 34, and his wife, Kate, 31, owned the home in the upscale subdivision surrounding the White Eagle Golf Club.

 

A law enforcement source confirmed that police were seeking a suspect who left Midway Airport on a domestic flight.

 

Lt. Rusty Sullivan said police have spoken to relatives of the Tsaos but not the homeowners themselves.

 

Late Thursday, Sullivan said, "based on our ongoing investigation, this has now changed from a death investigation to a murder investigation," and that police want to talk "to other parties outside of Illinois."

 

There were no signs of forced entry to the two-story, red brick home at Jeremy Ranch Court and Monarch Circle, and it did not appear that anything had been stolen, Sullivan said.

 

"We're not saying it [a burglary] didn't occur, but it wasn't readily apparent," Sullivan said.

 

One or more of the people suffered blunt force trauma, Sullivan said. Police did not find a weapon at the scene, he said.

 

Autopsies are expected to be performed Friday. If the deaths are ruled homicides, it would be the first quadruple homicide in DuPage County.

 

Sullivan said detectives were interviewing numerous people in DuPage and Aurora.

 

The crime occurred in a neighborhood described by residents as quiet and secure, patrolled frequently by a private security firm and Aurora police. Families with children live alongside older couples.

 

Neighbors were stunned by the deaths. Homeowner Jim Lieb said violent crime is unheard-of in the neighborhood.

 

"It's Pleasantville. There's nothing going on here," said Lieb, 53. "If we see a firetruck, [it's because] someone overcooked the bacon."

 

"This just shocks me," said Tom Purpura, who moved to the neighborhood about the same time as the Tsaos. "This is a very quiet couple."

 

According to neighbors and public records, the Tsaos moved to the neighborhood in 2001. Neighbors said the couple has no children.

 

Neighbors described the couple as friendly.

 

Jimmy Tsao worked at a Plainfield business that refurbished computers and exported them, neighbors said. Kate Tsao also worked outside the home, they said.

 

"They're a nice couple. She took up gardening. Jimmy liked to golf," neighbor Thomas Kosanda said.

 

Police were summoned to the house shortly after 2 p.m. by a relative checking on them because Kate Tsao had not gone to work.

 

Sullivan said police and firefighters entered the home and discovered a body on the first floor. Police searched the house and discovered the other three bodies, he said.

 

Sullivan would not say where in the house the bodies were found.

 

DuPage has had three triple homicides in the last decade.

 

On Sept. 14, 2004, Federico Torres, 36; Guillermo Armendariz, 36; and Hilario Ochos, 25; all of Texas, were shot to death in the parking lot of a Willowbrook restaurant.

 

Hector Moya, 30, of Cicero is charged with all three slayings. Drug trafficking is suspected in the deaths. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty if Moya is convicted. His trial is pending.

 

In March 1999, Marilyn Lemak drugged and suffocated her three children, Nicholas, 7, Emily, 6, and Thomas 4, in her Naperville home. A jury rejected her claim of insanity, and she is serving a life sentence in prison.

 

And on Nov. 16 and 17, 1995, Debra Evans, 28, was killed in her Addison apartment as a live unborn child was cut from her womb. Samantha, her 10-year-old daughter, also was slain in the apartment, and her son Joshua, 7, was kidnapped and found murdered the next day in a Maywood alley.

 

Lavern Ward, Fedell Caffey and Jacqueline Williams were all convicted and are serving life sentences. Caffey and Williams originally were sentenced to death, but they were taken off Death Row when former Gov. George Ryan commuted all death sentences to life in prison in 2003.

 

i read this, aweful, i used to live near by...its insane