@truecrimelibrary: In 1981 and 1982 Chicago was besieged with a string of gruesome killings that began with Linda Sutton, 28, being SA, s0d0m1zed and her left brea5t was cut off while she was still alive on May 23. Her c0rpse was found ten days later in Villa Park, her left brea5t missing. About a year later, a red van pulled up alongside Lorry Borowski as she was walking to work. When she declined the driver’s offer of a ride, two men jumped out of the van and grabbed her. They took her to a hotel room where they gang SA and b3at her. A wire was wound around one of her brea5ts and tightened until it was severed from her body and fell to the floor. According to Spreitzer’s sworn testimony, Gecht "had seggs" with Borowski’s breast and then finished her off with an ax. Only days later, a young Chinese woman named Shui Mak, drove her to an isolated wooded area where they SA her, cut off her brea5ts, s1iced her body to ribbons and buried her in a hole. Rose Beck, a businesswoman known for her independent mind and outspokenness, was a victim who was not willing to go without a fight. When her body was found, a pool of dried blood lay beneath her cavities and her face was crushed beyond recognition. Next was Angel York, who survived an attack on June 13. Not as fortunate was Sondra Delaware who was found strang1ed on a river bank with her left brea5t missing on August 28. Rose Davis suffered a similar fate and was found in an alleyway on September 8. The slayings continued with Carol Pappas, wife of a Chicago Cubs player, who was abducted on September 11 while shopping and never seen again. The unknown killers made their telling mistake on October 6 when Beverly Washington, a twenty-year-old pr0st1tute, was found near death alongside some railroad tracks. Despite being SA, slashed, and having her left brea5t severed, Washington survived to give a clear description of her attacker and the van she was taken in. This info soon led investigators to a group of men who had once lived together at a motel near the dump sites of Sutton and Burrowski. Dubbed the “Chicago Rippers”, they were Robin Gecht, Ed Spreitzer, and brothers Andrew and Tommy Kokoraleis. Gecht, who had once worked for John Wayne Gacy, was identified as Washington's attacker and evidently the leader of the murderous gang. At age 30, Gecht was the only fully grown adult and assumed the role of mentor and leader. Spreitzer was 21 and the Kokoraleis brothers, Tommy and Andrew, were only teenagers. It wasn't long before the Kokoraleis brothers and Spreitzer made confessions, including the g0ry revelation that the four had cann1ba1ized their victim's amputated brea5ts before Gecht placed them in a "trophy case", but Gecht himself has always claimed innocence. All four were eventually convicted at seperate trials. Gecht's tight-lipped strategy was rewarded when authorities could only manage to give him 120 years for Washington's attack. Currently serving his sentence at Danville Correctional Center, his projected parole date is October 10, 2042, when he will be 88 years old. Thomas Kokoraleis used his helpfulness and a technicality to barter his sentence down to seventy years for his role in Borowski's slaying. He has since been released. Meanwhile his brother Andrew and Spreitzer were both sentenced to death for the roles in the murders. Andrew Kokoraleis was executed on March 17, 1999, at the age of 35. Spreitzer is still incarcerated having had his sentence commuted to life in prison. All told, the Chicago Rippers are believed to have killed as many as eighteen women. #TrueCrimeLibrary #fyp #Men

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