A 68-year-old man has been charged with first-degree homicide within the 2004 taking pictures demise of a Gold Coast resident after police tracked him down in South America and extradited him to Chicago, authorities stated.
David Barklow, of the 400 block of North Lake Shore Drive, is accused of killing 40-year-old Kent Projansky inside Projansky’s condominium within the 1100 block of North Dearborn Road on December 18, 2004. Barklow was extradited from Peru this week and is scheduled for a detention listening to on Saturday.
Police stated Projansky was discovered shot to demise inside his condominium, and two shell casings have been recovered on the scene. Days later, officers discovered a duffel bag stuffed in a rubbish can on the Northwest Facet containing bloody clothes and a handgun matching the kind used within the homicide. A now-retired Chicago police officer, Christopher Lappe, heard the invention over police radio and alerted murder detectives that the bag is likely to be linked to the Dearborn Road killing. State police forensics later confirmed the gun and clothes within the bag have been tied to the homicide scene.
Regardless of that proof, investigators have been unable to determine a suspect on the time, and the case went chilly. It remained unsolved for greater than a decade.
In 2017, retired Detective James Browne reopened the investigation after studying of enhancements within the state crime lab’s expertise for analyzing fingerprints and different proof. He resubmitted the bodily proof collected from each the condominium and the duffel bag for reanalysis.
That effort produced a match to Barklow, who lived throughout the road from Projansky in 2004. U.S. Marshals arrested him in October 2019, however prosecutors didn’t instantly cost him, and he was launched pending further forensic testing. The Illinois State Police Crime Lab later confirmed that Barklow’s DNA and fingerprints matched proof discovered on the gun and clothes within the duffel bag. Blood contained in the bag belonged to Projansky.
Two months after being arrested, Barklow fled the US, CPD stated. In early 2022, they traced him to Ecuador. A Cook dinner County arrest warrant was issued, and federal officers secured a cost of illegal flight to keep away from prosecution.
Earlier this yr, INTERPOL and U.S. authorities discovered Barklow had traveled from Ecuador to Peru. Working with federal and Peruvian officers, Chicago detectives coordinated his detention in Lima, CPD stated.
