Maureen Maher

I was frozen.

I didn't cry.

I didn't feel a thing.

It's surreal.

It's surreal.

I didn't cry until the next day.

The news of a double murder hit at the heart of this quiet community.

Whoever killed them broke into the house while the couple was away.

As neighbors waited for answers, investigators at the crime scene had many questions about the killer.

There was nothing taken.

Nothing.

No jewelry, no electronics, $500 of cash strewn on the ground.

Almost as if it had been handed to him like, here, take this, and he had tossed it aside like, that's not why I'm here.

What did that say to you?

That said to me, this is a crime that is meant to be seen as an assassination, as an execution.

Planned, that it was planned, methodically planned.

Yes.

A multi-town police task force was assembled, and Sergeant Gene Calvados was put in charge of solving the murders.

One thing they did quickly determine was how the killer came and went undetected.

Rumors spread about an outsider bringing big city violence to Winnetka.