Man Responsible for Killing Crystal Lake Family Arrested for Another DUI on Sunday
Walter J. Depner, 61, of Mt. Prospect, was arrested by McHenry County Sheriff's police in Lakemoor and charged with various offenses.
A Lakemoor resident on Sunday night got an unwelcomed guest who turned out to be a Mt. Prospect man on parole. The intruder - Walter J. Depner, 61, of Mt. Prospect - is out on parole after serving 12 years of a 14-year sentence for the DUI-related crash that took the lives of a Crystal Lake woman and her three children in 1999, according to the Northwest Herald. The Burleson family, of Crystal Lake, was on their way home from a day at Great America when Depner crashed into their mini-van and killed Eva, 34, Daniel, 13, Tiffany, 11 and Dallis, 7. Thomas Burleson, the husband and father, was the sole survivor of the crash, the Herald reports. McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren said officers were dispatched at 6:17 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, for …
Bob
12:00 pm on Monday, April 22, 2013
I got rear ended by a drunk years ago. It was his FOURTH arrest for DUI! When will we take this crime seriously. This man committed murder just as the Boston bomber did. He's shown he can't be left loose in society ever. more ›