Anthony Hackett

Death by Force

Anthony Hackett, an 18-year-old teenager, was tragically murdered on July 17, 1983. Hackett was fatally shot four times while he slept in a car parked along Interstate 55 near Wilmington, Illinois. He and his girlfriend had been returning home from Great America in Gurnee, Illinois when the attack occurred. The assailant, later identified as Milton Johnson, raped, bound, and gagged Hackett’s girlfriend before dumping her on a road south of Joliet. She survived the ordeal and was later found by ...Read More

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People v. Johnson :: 1986 :: Supreme Court of Illinois Decisions

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