Federal Judge Finds 2 Dead in Chicago Home

A federal judge who was the target of a death plot by a jailed white supremacist returned to her Chicago home to find two people dead inside, police said.

Chicago police would only say there was a “death investigation” underway and released no names. But the Chicago Tribune reported that the dead were the husband and mother of the U.S. District Court judge, Joan Humphrey Lefkow, and that their bodies were found lying in blood.

Last year a jury convicted Matthew Hale, founder of the World Church of the Creator, with trying to hire someone to kill Lefkow, who had been presiding over a case that involved him on another matter.