Onetime fugitive Giovanni Spiller, who was captured last year after 15 years
on the lam, was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for the 1996 gun
slaying of a former friend outside a Northwest Side pool hall.
FBI agents arrested Spiller, 67, in California after a person who knew his
whereabouts read a Tribune story about the unresolved case and contacted Chicago
police and the FBI.
Spiller's story is in many ways emblematic of the criminal justice breakdowns
highlighted by the Tribune's 2011 "Fugitives from justice" series, which
documented how thousands of suspects have crossed a U.S. border to evade trial
on murder, rape and other felony charges.
A witness at Spiller's recent trial recounted watching him shoot Roberto
"Bobby" Castillo with a .45-caliber pistol outside Marie's Golden Cue at 3241 W.
Montrose Ave., then pump three more bullets into Castillo's body as he lay on
the ground.
Spiller surrendered to Chicago detectives but fled the city after posting a
low bond. Three years later he was found in the Philippines, but an extradition
effort stalled in that country. The manhunt drifted for years despite clues that
suggested he had returned to the U.S. and had ties to a property in Hemet,
Calif.
6 comments:
WEB: ( black murders) , Top 2 killers in USA are blacks , and illegals, they both kill more people than the Iraq War each year.
We invaded USA, us Illegal How you going to take us out?
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Dats mister musty from mexico shitty.
HES BLACK IDIOTS
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