Man charged with wife's 1973 Barrington Township murder focus of TV special
March 20, 2018
"A former Chicago-area attorney charged with his wife’s slaying more than four decades after her death is the subject of an Investigation Discovery special scheduled to air Sunday.
“Dateline NBC” correspondent Keith Morrison said he and his team spent “quite a while” investigating Donnie Rudd, who rose to prominence in the northwest suburbs as an attorney for condominium associations, a cable TV show host and a Schaumburg schools chief. The two-hour special — set to air at 7 p.m. — comes three months before Rudd is scheduled to stand trial for killing 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta Rudd, his wife of less than a month...
Kumeta Rudd was believed to have died in a single-car crash in Barrington Township in 1973, weeks after she married Rudd. Investigators exhumed her body from Dundee Township East Cemetery in 2013, and pathologists determined she suffered several blows to the head in a homicide. Cook County prosecutors say Rudd staged the crash and collected $120,000 in insurance proceeds.
Rudd, now 76 years old, was arrested at his Texas home in December 2015 and charged with first-degree murder. His attorney did not return a Tribune request for comment.
Investigators re-examined Kumeta Rudd’s death after Rudd was determined to be a suspect in the 1991 unsolved shooting death of an Arlington Heights interior designer. Lauretta Tabak-Bodtke, who was Rudd’s legal client, had reportedly threatened to file a complaint against him with state authorities. Neighbors said they saw Rudd’s car outside Tabak-Bodtke's home on the day of her murder. He has not been charged in that killing...
His murder trial is scheduled to begin June 25 in Rolling Meadows branch court. A status hearing is set for April 18..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/enter...rudd-trial-keith-morrison-20180320-story.html
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ID Bares the Lies in Who Is Donnie Rudd? Keith Morrison Investigates
Who Is Donnie Rudd? Keith Morrison Investigates is under the gun to present evidence in half-century old murder.
"...“Who is Donnie Rudd? It depends on who you ask,” reads the ID press statement. “To some, he’s a war hero, lawyer and brilliant scientist, but to others, he’s a conman, womanizer and possibly a murderer.”
Morrison is under a tight deadline. Rudd faces a murder trial in Chicago on June 25, 2018. “Four decades after what some authorities believe may have been Donnie’s first murder, he’s still a free man,” reads the statement...."
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