# Illinois Police Killing...Anyone Else Getting a Weird Vibe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 2, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731 "2015-09-02T19:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731/102 "2015-11-08T03:57:38Z")
Alphabetically? Crap. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731/103 "2015-11-08T04:51:42Z")
So apparently this guy pressured his son, who’s in the Army, into marrying his (the father’s) girlfriend, so that she could get the son’s military benefits? ---
**Author:** ![Zerc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/82dd89/32.png) [@Zerc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zerc)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731/104 "2015-11-10T12:08:13Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > Alphabetically? Crap. Speak for yourself 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731/105 "2016-01-28T16:51:48Z")
This came up in the news again because the guy’s wife is being indicted. My question is in the wording of the articles I’m seeing [like this one.](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/wife-of-illinois-officer-who-staged-suicide-indicted/ar-BBoMvT0?li=BBnb4R7) They keep referring to it as a staged suicide. Isn’t that incorrect? Wasn’t it an actual suicide and a “staged murder”? Wouldn’t a staged suicide be something like an occurrence where someone was murdered and then the murderer set it us to look like the person had actually killed themselves? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731/106 "2016-01-28T17:06:55Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > They keep referring to it as a staged suicide. Isn’t that incorrect? Wasn’t it an actual suicide and a “staged murder”? > Wouldn’t a staged suicide be something like an occurrence where someone was murdered and then the murderer set it us to look like the person had actually killed themselves? Yes, yes, and yes. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731/107 "2025-04-10T22:44:26Z")
The saga yet continues…The Village of Fox Lake has paid a $1 million settlement to his widow, who also participated in the financial misdeeds. This story says it’s a pension settlement, but I really think it’s go-away money. > **[Village of Fox Lake pays $1 million settlement to wife of disgraced police...](https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/04/10/village-of-fox-lake-pays-1-million-settlement-to-wife-of-disgraced-police-officer-joe-gliniewicz/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJlJNdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhFv7ZeajowDkY3eJqrP2S1SMtepPl-DqR7akhWBwRUtccvhbZDlbZ4SrUnc_aem_fREq4D_cXyd06pNYJGZStQ)** > > The village has paid a $1 million settlement to the widow of former Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz, both of which prosecutors say stole money from the explorer’s post before the officer staged his suicide as a murder and spurred a manhunt in... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illinois-police-killing-anyone-else-getting-a-weird-vibe/729731.md?page=5)