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U.S. NEWS Saturday 5 auguSt 2017

Police: Professor suspected in murder sent video apologizing

with Lathem on the day of counter at the library and to be on the lookout for the
the slaying. were at a loss to explain the two men, who are consid-
Earlier on Friday, police dis- donation. “I’ve never seen ered armed and danger-
closed that on the day of where suspects in a homi- ous. Authorities also have
the slaying — but before cide would make a dona- been alerted in England,
the body was discovered tion in the victim’s name,” where Warren was a resi-
— Lathem and Warren said Lt. Edward Gritzner. dent at Somerville College,
drove about 80 miles (128 Chicago police have said a part of the Oxford Univer-
kilometers) northwest to they believe they know sity Network.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where the men have gone Police have released very
where one of them made or are heading, but they few details about the in-
a $1,000 cash donation to have not disclosed details. vestigation. They have said
the public library there in To prevent them from leav- that Lathem had a person-
Cornell-Duranleau’s name. ing the United States, au- al relationship with Cornell-
Lake Geneva police said thorities have flagged the Duranleau, who moved to
the man making the dona- passports of Lathem and Chicago from the Grand
tion did not give his name. Warren. Law enforcement Rapids, Michigan, area af-
Police said there is no sur- agencies across the United ter receiving his cosmetol-
veillance video of the en- States have been notified ogy license.q

This undated photo released by the Chicago Police Department
shows Wyndham Lathem, an associate professor of microbiology
and immunology at Northwestern University. An arrest warrant
was issued Monday, July 31, 2017, for Lathem and another man
in connection to the stabbing death of a Chicago man on July
27.
(Chicago Police Department via AP)
By DON BABWIN tigation, has interviewed
Associated Press several of the people who
CHICAGO (AP) — A North- received the video from
western University professor Lathem, an associate mi-
suspected in the stabbing crobiology professor at
death of a Chicago man Northwestern. Guglielmi
sent a video to friends and declined to discuss details
relatives apologizing for his of the video or release it
involvement in a crime that because he said it could
he called the “biggest mis- be used in future interroga-
take of my life,” raising con- tion efforts.
cern among investigators The video is the latest twist
that he might kill himself. in the bizarre slaying of
“We are trying to keep this Trenton James Cornell-Du-
from becoming more trag- ranleau, 26, whose body
ic than it already is,” Chi- was found stabbed several
cago Police Department times inside Lathem’s Chi-
spokesman Anthony Gug- cago apartment on July 27.
lielmi said Friday. He asked First-degree murder war-
that anyone who either is rants have been issued for
with Wyndham Lathem or Lathem, 42, and Andrew
knows his location contact Warren, a 56-year-old Uni-
law enforcement immedi- versity of Oxford employee
ately.Guglielmi said that in England, who was seen
the U.S. Marshals Service, on surveillance video leav-
which has joined the inves- ing the high-rise building