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00:00This maximum security state prison once held some of the most dangerous inmates in the
00:06state of Illinois.
00:08From the terrifying Joseph Zuber, the founder of the Gangster Disciples Street Gang and
00:14even a member of a deadly satanic cult, some of these men are never leaving prison and
00:21some have already met their end inside the Stateville Correctional Centre.
00:27Welcome to our video on Statesville Correctional Centre.
00:32Have you ever served in this prison?
00:33If you have, drop a comment down below and let me know.
00:36Or if you think I missed anybody, I do read every single comment.
00:42Number 15, Larry Hoover.
00:45Hoover's criminal history is divided into two distinct eras and include his initial violent
00:52rise, all the way to his later leadership of a multi-million dollar drug empire from behind
00:58bars.
00:59On February 26th 1973, William Pookie Young, a 19-year-old drug dealer, was abducted and shot
01:07to death in a Chicago alley, with prosecutors proving that Hoover had ordered the hit.
01:13Following the death of William Young, Hoover was arrested and tried in an Illinois state court,
01:19was found guilty and sentenced to 150 to 200 years in prison.
01:24While in state prison, Hoover rebranded the Gangster Disciples, Growth and Development,
01:30with him claiming to be a community leader promoting non-violence and political activism.
01:36However, federal investigators found he was actually running a monolithic criminal organisation,
01:43with 30,000 members in 35 states, generating roughly $100 million annually in drug sales.
01:51In May 2025, President Donald Trump commuted Hoover's federal life sentences to time served.
01:58However, despite the federal commutation, Hoover remains incarcerated.
02:03Because his state crime occurred before 1978, when Illinois abolished discretionary parole,
02:11he is technically eligible for parole now.
02:13And his legal team is currently petitioning the Illinois Prisoner Review Board for his release.
02:21Number 14, Joseph Zuber.
02:23On October 14th 2023, in Plainfield Township, Illinois, the 71-year-old landlord attacked his tenants.
02:3232-year-old Hanan Shaheen and her six-year-old son, Wader Al-Foyoun.
02:39Prosecutors stated that Zuber, fuelled by anti-Muslim sentiment and paranoid rhetoric regarding the conflict in Gaza,
02:47forced his way into the apartment and strangled Shaheen, also stabbing her a dozen times.
02:53While Shaheen escaped to the bathroom to call 911, Zuber turned his attention to Wader,
03:00and the young boy was stabbed 26 times with a 7-inch serrated military knife, later dying from his injuries,
03:08but his mother survived.
03:10Evidence showed that Zuber had become obsessed with the war in Israel and feared a national day of jihad,
03:15and, during the attack, he reportedly shouted several racial slurs.
03:22Zuber's trial in Will County lasted five days, and featured harrowing evidence that deeply affected the jury,
03:29who deliberated for less than 90 minutes before finding Zuber guilty on all counts, including first-degree murder, attempted murder,
03:39and other hate crimes.
03:41During sentencing, it was revealed that Zuber was suffering from stage 4 cancer, and less than three months after his
03:49sentence began,
03:50he died in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections.
03:55Number 13. Paul Modrowski
03:58This case centres on the brutal killing of 22-year-old Dean Fawcett, a man who was part of a
04:05check fraud scheme in late 1992,
04:08with Paul Modrowski and a man named Robert Faracki.
04:12In December 1992, Fawcett disappeared and his body was discovered in January 1993,
04:19along railroad tracks in Barrington, Illinois, with Robert Faracki's wife implicating Modrowski,
04:26claiming he killed Fawcett to silence him about the check fraud scheme.
04:32Modrowski, however, maintained that he was not present during the murder,
04:35that occurred near the site and time of the infamous 1993 Brown's Chicken Massacre,
04:41that he was also suspected of having involvement in.
04:46Modrowski and Faracki were tried simultaneously, but with two separate juries,
04:51and Faracki's jury finding him not guilty, despite the fact that he was the one actually accused of pulling the
04:58trigger.
04:58Modrowski's jury found him guilty of first-degree murder under the theory of accountability,
05:04meaning they believed he did not necessarily kill Fawcett, but provided the gun and car used in the crime.
05:12In a rare move, the judge sentenced Modrowski to life in prison without the possibility of parole,
05:19even though that he had noted that he was not the shooter,
05:23but believed the cold nature of the crime warranted the maximum penalty.
05:28After years of exhausted appeals, Modrowski's legal team filed a motion for post-conviction relief in 2022,
05:36arguing that his life sentence was unconstitutionally excessive.
05:40His sentence was later reduced from life to 60 years under the Illinois day-for-day credit rules for time
05:48already served,
05:49and Modrowski was deemed to have completed his sentence immediately.
05:53Paul Modrowski was released on July 2nd, 2024,
05:57and he is currently a free man at the age of 51, though his conviction for murder still stands.
06:05Number 12, William Hearns.
06:08Known infamously as the Lipstick Killer, Hearns was a 17-year-old University of Chicago student
06:16when he was arrested in 1946, with the case labelled as one of the most controversial in American history.
06:24He was accused of three high-profile murders in Chicago that terrified the city
06:29and included the deaths of Josephine Ross, Francis Brown and six-year-old Suzanne Degnan,
06:36who was kidnapped from her bedroom.
06:39Hearns was caught in June 1946 while committing a burglary,
06:43and his path to conviction is a textbook example of pre-Miranda Wright's police tactics,
06:49where he was hit over the head with three clay flower pots causing a skull fracture.
06:55Without a warrant or paternal consent, police injected the 17-year-old with sodium pentothal,
07:02and under its influence he spoke of an alter ego named George, who committed the murders.
07:08Hearns was held for six days without access to an attorney,
07:12and later claimed he only pleaded guilty to avoid the electric chair,
07:17a threat his own lawyers reportedly pressured him with given the intense public outcry.
07:23On September 4th 1946, Hearns pleaded guilty to three murders,
07:28and 26 additional counts of burglary and assault, was given three consecutive life sentences,
07:35and became the first Illinois inmate to earn a four-year college degree behind bars.
07:41At the time of his death, he was reputedly the longest-serving prisoner in American history,
07:47having spent over 65 years behind bars.
07:52Number 11, James Files.
07:55Files and an accomplice, David Morley, were confronted by two detectives, David Ostertag and Gary Bitler,
08:03while in possession of a stolen vehicle.
08:06During a roadside gun battle, Detective Ostertag was shot in the chest,
08:11and seriously wounded, with Files and Morley fleeing the scene on foot,
08:16but they were apprehended a few hours later.
08:19Files was found to be in possession of a 9mm pistol and an AK-47,
08:25though the rifle jammed during the encounter, and he was charged with two counts of attempted murder,
08:31aggravated battery with a firearm, and armed violence.
08:35A jury found him guilty on all counts, and the judge sentenced Files to 30 years for the shooting
08:41of Detective Ostertag, and 20 years for the attempted murder of Detective Bitler,
08:47to be served consecutively.
08:50This 50-year sentence was viewed as a virtual life term given his age at the time,
08:56and while serving his sentence at Stateville Correctional Centre,
09:00Files became a household name among conspiracy theorists.
09:04In 1994, Files gave a televised interview claiming he was a CIA and mob contract killer,
09:12and stated he fired the fatal headshot that killed JFK from behind the fence on the grassy knoll.
09:18To support his theory, a shell casing was discovered at the site in 1987,
09:24with distinctive teeth marks on it, with Files claiming that he bit the casings as a signature.
09:30The FBI investigated his claims in 1994 and officially labelled them not credible,
09:36with most historians and ballistics experts dismissing the story as a fabrication intended to gain notoriety while in prison.
09:45Files spent 25 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections,
09:49before he was paroled in May 2016, due to new Illinois sentencing laws.
09:57Number 10, Martin James Durkin
10:01Born in Ireland and raised in Chicago, Durkin was a career criminal by his early twenties,
10:06but unlike the rough and tumble street thugs of the era, Durkin was a specialist and a high-end automobile
10:15thief.
10:16Durkin would pose as a wealthy prospective buyer at luxury dealerships,
10:22and after inspecting an expensive car and promising to return the cash the next day,
10:27he would burglarise the garage that night.
10:30He was an expert at cold plating cars, meticulously changing the serial numbers,
10:36motor stamps and assembly parts to make stolen vehicles untraceable.
10:41Before his interaction with federal agents, he had already shot and wounded four police officers,
10:47who had attempted to interfere with his operations and became known as a desperate gunman.
10:52In late 1925, the FBI was tracking Durkin for violating the Dyer Act,
10:59and Special Agent Edwin C. Shanahan received a tip that Durkin was hiding a stolen car in a Chicago garage.
11:08Thinking the tip was a dud, the local officers left to find their relief,
11:13but minutes later Durkin drove into the garage and Shanahan, now alone, stepped out to make the arrest.
11:21Durkin utilized a ruse to distract the agent, suddenly drawing a revolver from the front seat,
11:28and shooting Shanahan through the chest, with Shanahan managing to fire back,
11:33but collapsing and dying almost instantly.
11:36On the 20th of January 1926, federal agents and local police surrounded a train just outside St. Louis,
11:45and stormed Durkin's private compartment, arresting him before he could reach the two loaded
11:51revolvers he kept side by side. Prosecutors fought for the death penalty, however the jury compromised,
11:59and Durkin was sentenced to 35 years for murder, with him given an additional 15 years,
12:06ordered to run consecutively after his murder sentence for the interstate auto thefts.
12:12Durkin served nearly 20 years at Statesville Prison, before he was immediately handed over to the federal
12:19authorities to serve this theft sentence at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
12:269. Juan Luna
12:28On a frigid Friday night in Palatine, Illinois, 18-year-old Juan Luna and his high school friend,
12:36James Dagorski, entered the Browns chicken and pasta restaurant just before its 9pm closing time.
12:44Luna, a former employee of the restaurant, knew the layout and the closing procedures,
12:51and the duo reportedly wanted to do something big and chose the restaurant for a robbery.
12:57After ordering a four piece chicken dinner to ensure no other customers were present,
13:02they forced the seven people inside into the walk-in cooler and freezer,
13:08before systematically murdering everyone in the building. Before fleeing with less than $2,000,
13:14the killers mopped up blood, collected shell casings and cut the power, with the bodies of the
13:20deceased discovered by police at 3am after family members reported the victims had not returned home.
13:27The Palatine Police Department followed thousands of leads, but with no murder weapon and few witnesses,
13:33the case went cold for years and the restaurant was eventually razed in 2001. The breakthrough came
13:41in March 2002, when Anne Lockett, an ex-girlfriend of James Dagorski, finally went to the police and
13:49claimed that on the night of the murders, two men had confessed to her while also providing unpublished details.
13:56Forensic investigators had also preserved a piece of partially eaten chicken, found in a trash can at the
14:03crime scene in 1993, and using DNA technology, scientists matched the saliva on the bone to one Luna.
14:13On May 16th 2002, both Luna and Dagorski were taken into custody, with Luna providing a videotaped confession,
14:22though he later tried to recant it, claiming he was coerced. Luna's trial began in April 2007,
14:30with the prosecution using both the DNA evidence and a palm print found on a napkin, with the jury
14:37finding Luna guilty on all seven counts of first degree murder. While the prosecution sought the death
14:43penalty, a single juror voted against it, which spared Luna's life, and he was sentenced to life in
14:50prison without the possibility of parole. Juan Luna has spent the last two decades in the Illinois
14:57Department of Corrections, and was held at the Statesville Correctional Center until it closed in the
15:032025, when he was moved to the Danville Correctional Center.
15:08Number eight, Robert Cremo III. On the morning of Independence Day in Highland Park, Illinois,
15:15the community gathered for its annual parade, but unknown to them, 21-year-old Robert Cremo III
15:23had positioned himself on the roof of a local business, overlooking the parade route. Disguised in
15:30women's clothing to hide his facial tattoos and blend into the fleeing crowd afterward, Cremo opened
15:37fire with a high-powered Smith & Wesson rifle, firing more than 80 rounds into the spectators.
15:44Seven people were killed, ranging in age from 35 to 88 years old, and dozens of others were wounded,
15:53including an eight-year-old boy who was left paralyzed. Cremo dropped the rifle and walked away
15:59from the scene, blending into the panicked crowd before travelling to Madison, Wisconsin,
16:05and reportedly contemplating a second attack before returning to Illinois.
16:10Apprehended during a traffic stop later that evening, Cremo's path to justice was marked by
16:16significant delays, with him maintaining a not-guilty plea and even briefly attempting to represent
16:23himself in late 2023. On March 3rd, 2025, as the jury selection was concluding and opening statements were
16:32imminent, Cremo abruptly changed his plea to guilty on all 55 counts against him, including seven counts
16:40of first-degree murder. Cremo was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences on April 24th, 2025,
16:48and was also sentenced to an additional 50 years for each of the 48 attempted murder counts.
16:55He is currently serving a 2,400-year sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
17:03Number seven, Raymond Lee Stewart. Born in North Carolina in 1952, Stewart's life was defined by
17:11extreme deprivation and brutality, with his father an alcoholic who physically abused him and he was
17:19kicked out of his home at the age of 14. By 1981, Stewart was living in Rockford and spiralling,
17:26reportedly enraged by several events that included a landlord refusing to return a $50 security deposit
17:34and discovering that his girlfriend had undergone a tubal legation without telling him.
17:41His six-day rampage began on January 27th, 1981, when he entered Fred's Groceries in Rockford,
17:50shot and killed the owner, Willie Fred, and a stock boy, Albert Pearson, who was just 20 years old.
17:57Next, he moved to a Clark gas station and shot Kevin Kaiser, a young attendant, five times,
18:04before he robbed an easy-go station and murdered the attendant, Kenny Faust.
18:10On February 2nd, the killing spree crossed state lines into Wisconsin, where at a radio shack,
18:16Stewart forced two men, Richard Boick and Donald Raines, to the back of the store and shot both of them
18:23in the head.
18:24The manhunt ended in North Carolina on February 21st, 1981, after Stewart's own father provided information to the police
18:34in exchange for a $4,400 reward and he was later convicted of the three murders and sentenced to death.
18:43During his 1982 trial, Stewart made a daring attempt to flee the courtroom, but he was shot in the shoulder
18:50by a deputy
18:51and was later found hiding in a large oil drum.
18:55During his appeal, Stewart claimed he had targeted white victims out of rage for the assassinations of JFK and Martin
19:03Luther King Jr.
19:04However, prosecutors noted his first two victims, Willie Fred and Albert Pearson, were actually black.
19:12Stewart spent 15 years on death row at Statesville Correctional Centre before his execution by lethal injection.
19:19on September 18th, 1996.
19:23Number 6. Michael Alfonso
19:26Alfonso's criminal history is defined by extreme violence against women who tried to leave him,
19:33including Su Munir Yang, his 23-year-old former girlfriend, who he shot and killed in 1992.
19:41Following the murder, he fled to Texas, where he was eventually caught.
19:46However, due to a series of legal manoeuvres and name changes, he served only a fraction of his
19:52potential time before being released and returning to Illinois.
19:56On the 5th of June 2001, Alfonso confronted another ex-girlfriend, 28-year-old Genevieve Velasquez, in the parking lot
20:08of a restaurant where she worked in Wheaton and shot her to death in broad daylight, fuelled by jealousy.
20:15Immediately after the 2001 murder, Alfonso vanished, and his ability to evade capture for over three years made him a
20:24priority for federal authorities, before he was named the 476th person added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
20:34Alfonso had fled across the border into Mexico, and investigators later discovered that he had moved through Guatemala and Belize,
20:44frequently changing his appearance and using various aliases to blend in with the local populations.
20:50The case was featured on America's most wanted, and local Mexican television networks, and in July 2004, a viewer in
21:00Mexico recognised Alfonso from a broadcast and contacted the FBI.
21:05On July 15, 2004, Mexican federal agents, working in coordination with the FBI, arrested Alfonso without incident, and he was
21:15extradited back to Illinois to face justice for both the 1992 and 2001 killings.
21:23Charged with two counts of first-degree murder, intentional homicide of an unborn child, aggravated stalking and kidnapping, Alfonso entered
21:33a guilty plea to the murders to avoid the death penalty.
21:37On July 11, 2007, a county judge sentenced Michael Alfonso to the rest of his natural life in prison, without
21:46the possibility of parole, where he is currently serving two consecutive life terms.
21:52Number 5, Richard Speck, a 24-year-old drifter and merchant seaman with a born-to-raise-hell tattoo, Speck
22:01broke into a townhouse in Chicago's Jeffrey Manor neighbourhood that served as a dormitory for student nurses from South Chicago
22:10Community Hospital.
22:12Around 11pm, armed with a pistol and a pallet knife, Speck entered the back door and initially claimed he only
22:19wanted money to go to New Orleans.
22:22He herded the women into a bedroom and bound their hands and feet with strips of bedsheets, before leading the
22:29women out one by one and murdering them in different rooms.
22:32Speck was later caught, because Corazon Amuro, a 23-year-old student nurse, managed to crawl under a bunk bed
22:42and Speck believed there were only eight women left in the house.
22:46Because Marianne Jordan was an unexpected guest, he lost count and left the house at 3.30am without checking under
22:54the last bed, with Amuro waiting until 6am to ensure he was gone.
23:00After a massive manhunt, Speck was identified via fingerprints left on a bedroom door and the description of his tattoo
23:08provided by Amuro, later attempting suicide by slashing his wrists and elbow at a Skid Row hotel.
23:17He was taken to Cook County Hospital, where a young surgical resident recognised the born-to-raise-hell tattoo from
23:24newspaper reports and later alerted police.
23:27The jury deliberated for only 49 minutes before finding him guilty, and he was originally sentenced to death in the
23:35electric chair, but his sentence was commuted to eight consecutive life terms after a Supreme Court ruling.
23:43On December 5th 1991, the day before his 50th birthday, Richard Speck died of a massive heart attack.
23:52Number 4. Garvis Davis
23:55Between 1978 and 1979, a series of robberies and murders terrorised the St. Louis metropolitan area and southern Illinois, with
24:06the perpetrators targeting both elderly individuals in rural homes.
24:11Four people were murdered, mostly during the home invasions, and Davis often committed these crimes with Richard Ricky Holman, who
24:20was 17 at the time.
24:21Police claimed that after his arrest, Davis provided a handwritten note admitting to 11 murders, and eventually signed a total
24:30of 20 confessions for various other crimes.
24:34Because Holman was a minor, he was ineligible for the death penalty and received a life sentence, but Davis was
24:41sentenced to death and spent over 15 years on death row at the Statesville Correctional Centre.
24:48Davis was believed to be the first death row inmate to use the internet to advocate for his life, but
24:55Governor Jim Edgar refused to intervene, and Davis became the fifth person executed in Illinois after the reinstatement of the
25:04death penalty.
25:05His case is frequently cited as a prime example of why Illinois eventually abolished the death penalty in 2011, as
25:14a state that recognised the high risk of executing the wrongly convicted.
25:20Number 3. Charles Albanese
25:23In 1980, Charles Albanese appeared to be a successful family man and professional while living in McHenry, Illinois, and worked
25:32as an executive at his family's business, Allied Die Casting, in nearby Spring Grove.
25:38But behind the scenes, Albanese was drowning in debt and living an extravagant lifestyle he could not afford, while embroiled
25:48in a bitter dispute over the future of the family company.
25:51He realised that by eliminating his father and wife's elderly relatives, he could gain control of the business, and inherit
26:00a significant amount of money that was estimated at over $500,000 in the 1980s.
26:07Albanese chose arsenic as his weapon, because its symptoms, that included nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea, mimicked the stomach flu or
26:16general decline in the elderly, making it easy to overlook.
26:21Albanese's mother-in-law was the first to die, and her death was initially attributed to natural causes, but after
26:29Charles' father suddenly died from a mysterious illness, Charles immediately took over the company.
26:35His wife's grandmother died under similar circumstances three months later, and Charles also began poisoning his brother, Michael Albanese.
26:46But he survived, albeit with permanent neurological damage.
26:51The luck of Charles Albanese ran out when Michael's doctor grew suspicious of his sudden unexplained paralysis and hair loss,
26:59classic signs of heavy metal poisoning.
27:02Tests revealed that Michael had lethal levels of arsenic in his system, and authorities immediately exhumed the bodies of MJ
27:11Albanese and Mary Reitz, with both found to be riddled with arsenic.
27:17Investigators found that Charles had purchased a large quantity of arsenic from a chemical supply house, claiming he needed it
27:25to kill pests at the family business.
27:28In a bizarre and cold-blooded twist, it was later discovered that Charles had been placing the arsenic in homemade
27:34cookies and food he brought to his family members during their recovery from previous bouts of illness.
27:43He was found guilty of the murders of his father and mother-in-law, as well as the attempted murder
27:48of his brother, and was sentenced to death.
27:51Number 2. John Wayne Gacy
27:55In the 1970s, John Wayne Gacy was a respected figure in suburban Norwood Park, Illinois, and ran PDM Contractors, a
28:06successful construction firm that employed mainly local teenagers.
28:10He was a democratic precinct captain that was famously photographed with First Lady Rosalind Carter in 1978, while frequently dressing
28:22as a clown to perform at children's hospitals and neighbourhood block parties.
28:28Beneath the civic-minded exterior, Gacy was a predator, who had the terrifying ability to project the image of a
28:37model citizen that fundamentally changed the public's understanding of the serial killer next door.
28:45His victims were almost exclusively young men and teenage boys, mainly whom he lured to his home with promises of
28:53construction work or by posing as a police officer to arrest them for minor infractions.
29:01Gacy utilised what he called the handcuff trick, where he would persuade victims to put on handcuffs to see how
29:09they worked, then reveal he had no key.
29:12Once they were restrained, he subjected them to hours of assault, and most of his victims were killed by strangulation
29:20using a garrote, and 29 of his victims were buried in the crawlspace beneath his house.
29:27When police visited Gacy's home, they noticed a faint, sickening odour of putrefaction, and they also found Robert Priest's photo
29:36receipt in Gacy's trash, with Priest having vanished on December 11th, 1978.
29:44On December 21st, 1978, investigators obtained a second search warrant, where they began digging in the dirt floor of the
29:53crawlspace and discovered a human bone.
29:56Seeing that his charade was over, Gacy confessed to his lawyers, and then to the police, famously stating that there
30:03were 33 victims, some dumped in the river, and that he was the 34th.
30:09Gacy's trial began in February 1980, and was a sensation, featuring testimony about his alter egos, and his attempts to
30:19plead insanity, but the jury saw right through it, and found him guilty on 33 counts of murder.
30:27He was sentenced to death on March 13th, 1980, a sentence that was carried out after 14 years on death
30:35row, at Meenard Correctional Centre, where he was moved after his trial.
30:41Gacy was executed by lethal injection at Statesville Correctional Centre on May 10th, 1994, famously eating a last meal of
30:50KFC and a pound of strawberries.
30:53Number 1. Edward Sprayzer
30:56Inseparable from the Chicago Ripper crew, a satanic cult-like quartet that committed some of the most grisly and ritualistic
31:06murders in American history,
31:08Edward Sprayzer was implicated in the abduction and murder of several women.
31:14The total number of the crew's victims is estimated to be between 10 and 20, with Sprayzer, who was brought
31:23in for questioning, soon breaking down under interrogation and providing voluntary videotaped confessions.
31:31He admitted to his role in several murders, and perhaps most importantly, implicated the Coquilaris brothers, Andrew and Thomas.
31:40Sprayzer was tried for multiple murders, and his defence focused on his low intelligence, and his alleged brainwashing by the
31:49charismatic and dominant Robert Gect, the gang's leader.
31:54The jury was unmoved by the follower defence, and he was convicted of several counts of first-degree murder and
32:00sentenced to death in 1984.
32:03In a historic move just before leaving office, Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of all 167 inmates
32:12on death row to life in prison,
32:15citing his grave concerns about the fundamental fairness of the Illinois capital punishment system.
32:22Edward is currently one of the few members of the Ripper crew still alive, and incarcerated while serving at least
32:30125 years.
32:33Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed Statesville Correctional Centre, you will love two more of our other videos.
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