An Attorney Who Hid His Murders For Over 40 Years - August 18 2024

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🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.0	The idea that a dangerous sociopath can walk among society undetected is a terrifying one. On August 18, 1973, a couple were married,
0:26.2	but just 27 days later found themselves ripped apart due to a tragic death, one that decades later
0:34.0	was relooked into to determine if it was an accident or a calculated murder.
0:40.5	So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a
0:45.4	morning cup of murder.
0:47.8	In the early 1970s in Dundee, Illinois, a man named Donny Rudd began an affair with a woman
0:53.8	whom he worked with at the
0:55.4	Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 School Board. While still living with this woman,
1:01.7	Diane Hart, and her four children, the 31-year-old began a relationship with a 19-year-old girl
1:08.6	named Noreen Koumeta, and on August 18, 1973, the pair were married.
1:16.7	Their relationship, though, didn't last very long, because just 27 days after exchanging vows,
1:25.6	Donnie and Noreen were driving back to their home when an accident sent
1:29.6	their pinto wagon into a field in Barrington Hills and caused fatal injuries to the newlywed.
1:37.7	When police arrived at the scene, Donnie was cradling his wife in the front seat of the car,
1:43.6	saying that another driver ran him off the
1:45.8	road and that Noreen was thrown from the car. Hitting her head on some rocks, believed to have suffered
1:52.9	from a broken neck, though no x-rays were ever done, she was pronounced dead at the hospital.
1:59.6	Noreen Rudd was buried in her wedding dress three days later, and Donnie, now $120,000
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