Chicago-area man gets 62 years in mom’s death after body parts found in Lincoln Park lagoon

Brian Peck, 60, was convicted in February of first-degree homicide, dismembering a human physique and concealing a murder demise. Authorities say he stomped on his mom’s head.

Cook dinner County Choose Joseph Cataldo mentioned Peck murdering his mom was disturbing sufficient, however extra egregious was “listening to him testify how he sawed her into items, all with no emotion in any way.”

Physique components present in Lincoln Park lagoon could also be linked to lacking lady case

Cordaro described the crime as one in all “irretrievable depravity,” the (Arlington Heights) Every day Herald reported.

Gail Peck, a canine lover, theater fanatic and breast most cancers survivor, died within the early morning hours of Oct. 25, 2017. Brian Peck then positioned a few of her stays into plastic rubbish baggage and threw them in to Lake Michigan, authorities mentioned.

The following day, Peck bought a baggage set and duffel bag, then put his mom’s torso, brick pavers and a towel into a big rolling suitcase, in keeping with prosecutors. He positioned different physique components, brick pavers and the noticed authorities say he used to sever her limbs into the duffel bag, then threw it and the suitcase into Chicago’s Lincoln Park Lagoon.

Police recovered Gail Peck’s stays two days later after a fisherman hooked the duffel bag.