Frank Smith's True Crime Archive

Monday, February 6, 2023

Eva Bratcher allegedly hid 96-year old body of mother in freezer

 Early this week at the Portage Park, IL home of Eva Bratcher, investigators discovered the two year old dead body of her mother, Regina Michalski, in a freezer. Bratcher currently faces felony charges of possessing a fraudulent identification card and for concealing the death.

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Jafeth Ramos gets 25 years for Gage Park murders

 Jafeth Ramos, 25, who watched her ex boyfriend kill six extended family members in a Gage Park home (while assisting with theft of property) pleaded guilty to armed robbery Thursday, recruiting 25 years incarceration. The plea bargain includes agreement to testify against ex Beau Diego Uribe, who last month received life imprisonment. 

In February 2016, Ramos joined Uribe at the family residence of 5700 south California Avenue,  where Uribe stabbed Rosaura Martinez,  beat Noe Martinez jr. To death, and shot his aunt Maria Martinez multiple times, later fatally stabbing Alexis Cruz and Leonardo Cruz to death, while murdering Noe Martinez Sr. 

Ramos didn't seek help or attempt to leave.


Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Frances Walker pleads innocent to murdering N.W. side landlady

 Sandra Kolalou, 36, who was served with an eviction notice by her landlord, is accused of dismembering and killing Frances Walker, 69, in October, who owned a boarding house on the northwest side. She pleaded not  guilty to dismembering a human body,  robbery, aggravated battery, and homicidal death. Walker was reported missing October 10, and police were told by a resident that Kolalou brought a huge plastic bag to a tow truck. After officers were allowed to search her home, Kolalou dumped the bag into a trash can at Foster Beach , being driven there by a tow truck; she pulled a knife on him when he wouldn't drive her further,  was arrested, and officers later found blood on two knives in her room, with Walker's remains in a freezer.

Wednesday, October 27, 2021