Official: Police closing in on Northwestern-Oxford duo

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Don Babwin, Associated Press
Updated 4:31 pm, Thursday, August 3, 2017


CHICAGO (AP) — Investigators think they're closing in on a Northwestern University professor and University of Oxford staffer who are wanted in the fatal stabbing of a Chicago man, a police official said Thursday.

Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said the hunt for Wyndham Lathem and Andrew Warren has "intensified and narrowed" and that investigators think they know where the men are or are heading. He urged them to surrender.

 
Lathem, a respected microbiologist at Northwestern, and Warren, who was visiting Chicago from England, are wanted on first-degree murder charges in last week's killing of 26-year-old Trenton Cornell-Duranleau.

Cornell-Duranleau's mother, Charlotte Cornell, told The Associated Press by phone from Michigan, where her son grew up, that the family doesn't know the suspects. She declined to say whether she or other family members had ever heard of them before her son was killed because they "are at large and there's an ongoing investigation."





Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Family-of-Chicago-stabbing-victim-asks-for-privacy-11731230.php#photo-13628802

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Oxford college worker and US professor arrested in California over Chicago murder

Andrew Warren, a senior treasury assistant at Somerville College, and Professor Wyndham Lathem of Northwestern University were detained separately in California, more than 3,200km (2,000 miles) from the crime scene, a spokesman said on Friday.

Warren was in San Francisco while Lathem was in Oakland, US Marshals inspector Ed Farrel told the Chicago Tribune. It was not immediately clear how Lathem and Warren had travelled to California.
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Police had released few details of the investigation. However, they said on Friday that on the day of the killing – but before the body was discovered – Lathem and Warren drove about 128km (80 miles) north-west to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where one of them made a $1,000 cash donation to the public library there in Cornell-Duranleau’s name. Lake Geneva police said the man making the donation did not give his name. “I’ve never seen where suspects in a homicide would make a donation in the victim’s name,” said Lieutenant Edward Gritzner.

Police said Lathem had a personal relationship with Cornell-Duranleau, who moved to Chicago from the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area after receiving his cosmetology licence. They said they were still trying to determine how Cornell-Duranleau or Lathem knew Warren, or if Warren knew them before he arrived in the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/05/oxford-college-worker-andrew-warren-us-professor-wyndham-lathem-arrested-california-chicago-stabbing

Warren was apparently regarded as 'missing' by his family in Britain before the murder:

He lived in the house where he had grown up, with younger sister Tracey, and his father, Dereck, until his death earlier this year.
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Other people living on the quiet rural street said they had heard from Tracey and Andrew's boyfriend, Martin McClure Grant, that the accounts worker had disappeared.

One woman said: "The last thing I knew about Andy, he had disappeared. Tracey said had I seen him.
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Neighbours believed Tracey had reported him missing, and that police initially believed he was in Spain.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-friends-oxford-university-treasurer-10923809

Very strange.