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Did Domestic Violence Play a Role in Lacey Gaines Murder
by holliston2012
Lacey Gaines was murdered on December 7, 2009 in her rundown apartment in Justice, Illinois. While speculation has run rampant about who did it, there are still no suspects. She did have a child with a boyfriend who she later told people physically beat her. Daniel Rogelio Sanchez, Lacey told friends, co-workers, family and social [...]
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Hmmm. In re: to 'rundown apartment'....Justice apartments (and there are many, many, many complexes off of 79th Street up to 87th Street....LOOK rundown on the outside - they are old construction, with not well-kept lawns (speaking generally of course) but the inside is nice in many of them. Comparatively speaking, rent in a two bedroom on the Southside of Chicago, where I live, is about $950, and the same apartment in Justice would gofor about $650. There are landlords who will rent to those who are not legal citizens, and so you have a heavily-immigrant area (Polish and Hispanic.) But I wouldn't necessarily label it rundown. That's just my two cents for anyone who is thinking about this case.
For what it's worth, Justice is a (relatively) low-crime area-maybe property crimes, theft, etc, but I can't imagine that Justice has had to deal with many murder cases. Could this be a part of the problem?