Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Ronald Kitchen And Marvin Reeves
The Illinois Attorney General's Office says prosecutors are dropping charges against Ronald Kitchens and Marvin Reeves. The pair were convicted of murdering Deborah Sepulveda (26 years old), her son Peter, Jr. (3 years old), daughter Rebecca (two years old), Rose Marie Rodriguez (30 years old) and her son Daniel (3 years old) on July 27, 1988. There were no eyewitnesses to the murders. Rodriguez was strangled and the other victims had been suffocated. Kitchens had been in prison since 1990 and Reeves had been in prison since 1991. They were recently granted a new trial by Cook County Circuit Judge Stanley Sacks. Prosecutors, however, decided to drop all charges, stating that they could not meet their burden of proof at trial. Kitchens had confessed to the murders, but claimed that a detective beat him and forced him to confess.
