Found Deceased IL - Gail Peck, 76, Elgin, 27 Oct 2017 *Arrest*

Police called to the Lincoln Park Lagoon after a fisherman found a duffel bag with human remains inside found a second bag with more remains Saturday, police said.

Officers were called to the lagoon just before 11:10 a.m., when fishermen called 911 after finding a duffel bag filled with appeared to be human remains, police said. Marine Unit divers and detectives went to the scene and officials found a second bag with more remains, said Frank Giancamilli, a police spokesman. The remains were all believed to be from the same person, he said.

Detectives were conducting a death investigation and checking missing persons reports for any possible leads. The Cook County medical examiner's office was leading the investigation into the cause and manner of death.

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Officers were called to the 2200 block of North Stockton Drive at 11:08 a.m. after fishermen reported “the discovery of suspected human remains” in the water, according to Chicago Police.

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Detectives believe the remains are from the same individual as those found earlier.

This is a continuing death investigation and Detectives are actively looking into missing persons reports for any possible leads.

The Medical Examiner’s office will lead the investigation into the remains.

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Now, detectives have turned to missing person reports for leads. While authorities were investigating at the scene, crisis responder Dawn Valenti stopped to see if the remains belonged to one of two people missing from a south side Chicago neighborhood.
Dawn Valenti: “One has been missing for ten months, the other has been missing for about a week now. But the fact that there are two people actively missing that I know about especially Joanna Wright. It’s been ten months. And then to hear this. It could be just a coincidence, you know? But it brought me out here because I want to know.”

The Cook County medical examiner is now investigating the victim’s cause of death.

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CHICAGO (WLS) --

Police in northwest suburban Elgin are working with the Chicago Police Department to determine whether body parts found in a North Side lagoon are connected to the search for a missing woman.

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Investigators believe the body parts from both bags, which include a torso and parts of two legs, came from the same person. There is a scar on the back of the torso from previous back surgery.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy Sunday. Cause and manner of death are pending further study.

Elgin police said the disappearance of 76-year-old Gail Peck is being handled as a criminal investigation, and that additional testing will be done to confirm whether the remains found in Chicago are connected to her case. Police also said they are not actively searching for Peck.

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Brian Peck, who lived with his mother in her Littleton Trail home, reported her missing, telling police she left to walk her dog on Friday evening and claiming the dog returned without her.
Elgin police began an intensive search for Peck, using all-terrain vehicles, drone, helicopter and officers on foot. Area residents also assisted in the search for Gail Peck, police said.
As the search went on, police said they received information suggesting that Gail Peck's disappearance did not happen as her son reported. "As additional information was obtained, more investigative resources were devoted to the possibility of the case being criminal in nature," police said. Detectives also executed a search warrant at the Peck home.

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"Over the course of the next few days, detectives determined that Brian Peck was ultimately responsible for killing his mother and discarding her body, and that the remains found in the Chicago lagoon were that of Gail Peck," Elgin Police Chief Jeffrey Swoboda said in a community alert video on Tuesday. He thanked members of the police department for working tirelessly on the case, as well as members of the community, "who came out and helped us search for Gail, and shared her story on social media, all in the hopes that maybe she was just disoriented, and we could get her home safely.

"It was clear to us from the very beginning, talking to friends and family, that Gail Peck was loved by all that she knew," Swoboda said, extending his condolences to Peck's loved ones.

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Brian Peck is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death. He is due to appear in Cook County Court on Tuesday afternoon.

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Brian Peck, who lived with his mother in her Littleton Trail home, reported her missing, telling police she left to walk her dog on Friday evening and claiming the dog returned without her.
Elgin police began an intensive search for Peck, using all-terrain vehicles, drone, helicopter and officers on foot. Area residents also assisted in the search for Gail Peck, police said.
As the search went on, police said they received information suggesting that Gail Peck's disappearance did not happen as her son reported. "As additional information was obtained, more investigative resources were devoted to the possibility of the case being criminal in nature," police said. Detectives also executed a search warrant at the Peck home.

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"Over the course of the next few days, detectives determined that Brian Peck was ultimately responsible for killing his mother and discarding her body, and that the remains found in the Chicago lagoon were that of Gail Peck," Elgin Police Chief Jeffrey Swoboda said in a community alert video on Tuesday. He thanked members of the police department for working tirelessly on the case, as well as members of the community, "who came out and helped us search for Gail, and shared her story on social media, all in the hopes that maybe she was just disoriented, and we could get her home safely.
"It was clear to us from the very beginning, talking to friends and family, that Gail Peck was loved by all that she knew," Swoboda said, extending his condolences to Peck's loved ones.

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Brian Peck is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death. He is due to appear in Cook County Court on Tuesday afternoon.

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Joe Friday said:

Thank God he's not a very good cleaner. I'm sure he left enough evidence to leave no doubt what occurred in that house prior to him dumping his mom in the pond and trying to cover his tracks by reporting her missing.

What is it with Chicago and dumping dismembered bodies in park lagoon's. Kyrian Knox and now Ms. Peck

JMO

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An arm that washed up near Montrose Beach on Tuesday morning likely belongs to Gail Peck, a 76-year-old Elgin woman whose son already has been charged in connection with her death and dismemberment, police said.

The discovery of the human limb was made around 11 a.m. in the 500 block of West Lawrence Avenue, said Officer Christine Calace, a spokeswoman for the Chicago police.

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Prosecutors maintain Brian Peck, 55 — who lived with his mother in the 700 block of Littleton Trail in Elgin — said he killed his mother after she complained he played his Jimi Hendrix music too loudly. Peck told police he stomped on his mother’s head and neck, then “put her in a bathtub and hacked her up,” police said.

After dismembering her body, Peck placed the body parts in luggage and duffel bags and dumped them in Lake Michigan near Diversey and Montrose harbors, prosecutors say.

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