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Authorities have identified the husband and wife that were found dead under “suspicious circumstances” Monday night inside a home in west suburban Oak Park. Regina Waldroup reports.

Authorities say two people were found dead under “suspicious circumstances” Monday night inside a home in west suburban Oak Park. NBC 5 Sandra Torres reports.

Human skeletal remains were found Tuesday in Hammond, Indiana. About 5:15 p.m. officers received a call from a man saying he was walking his dog and came across the remains near a wooded path off of Marble Street near State Line Avenue, according to Hammond police. A death investigation into the identity of the person and the cause of death…

Authorities are conducting a homicide investigation into the death of an 11-month-old boy from Roseland on the South Side. D’Siyah Thomas died Tuesday morning at LaRabida Children’s Hospital due to complications from inflicted head trauma, according to autopsy results from the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide. Few details have been released about the...

After an 18-year-old woman with mental disabilities was found dead in her Riverside County home, her mother and stepfather were charged with murder, abuse, and child endangerment Friday.

Bond was set at $5 million Monday for a Kenosha mother accused of methodically murdering her two small children before attempting to take her own life so she and her kids “wouldn’t bother” their father anymore, prosecutors said.

A Kenosha mother accused of methodically murdering her two small children will appear before a judge for the first time Monday.

Two young children were found dead inside a home in southeastern Wisconsin early Saturday morning. The children — 3-year-old Alicia and a 1-year-old Javier — were believed to be killed at the hands of their own mother. NBC 5’s Susan Carlson reports.

Two young children were found dead inside a home in southeastern Wisconsin early Saturday morning.

The bodies of two young children were found dead inside a home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, early Saturday morning, and the children’s father says the mother killed them before attempting to kill herself. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos reports.

Autopsies performed Monday on the bodies of a mother and her three sons found in a home in the Chatham neighborhood did not yield many answers.

The decomposing bodies of four people were found inside a home on the South Side of Chicago Saturday evening, but the cause of their deaths remains a mystery.

The decomposing bodies of a young mother and her three children were found inside a home in the Chatham neighborhood Saturday evening. NBC 5’s Katie Kim reports.

Two people died after they were found inside a north suburban garage with high carbon monoxide levels early Saturday, police said.

As investigations continue into the death of a suburban Chicago woman inside a Texas jail, the district attorney in Waller County, Texas, said her death “will not be swept under the rug.”

The friends and family of Sandra Bland, a suburban Chicago woman who had recently moved to Texas, protested outside of the Waller County Jail Friday, where Bland was found hanged to death earlier this week.

Patrick Boswell, an eighth grader at Iroquois Community School in Des Plaines, was found lying on the ground in Rosemont with an apparent gunshot wound.