CHICAGO (WLS) -- At age 88, Richard Bailey's long and winding legal road has no more exits. Bailey, the only man ever sentenced in the Helen Brach murder conspiracy, has now lost his last hope to get ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's most vexing crime mystery, the murder of candy heiress Helen Brach 40-years ago, once again has the attention of a federal judge and the U.S. attorney. The I-Team has ...

Newspaper clippings show the extensive coverage of the disappearance of Helen Brach, the heiress to the Brach Candy fortune. Brach, who was from Glenview, Illinois, disappeared in 1977 and was last ...

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His name is Jack Matlick. He worked as personal valet and a so-called houseman for Helen Brach, the wealthy widow of Chicago candy baron Frank Brach. It has been nearly 35 years since Mrs. Brach was ...

Joe Plemmons has spent a lifetime running away–from his childhood home, from people he cheated, from the killers and crooks he once called friends, and from a sleazy reputation in his beloved world of ...

The U.S. attorney’s office said Friday it has begun to turn over recently obtained information regarding Helen Brach’s disappearance to a lawyer for Richard Bailey, the con man who was sentenced to 30 ...

Bailey was never charged with the actual murder of Mrs. Brach, although in 1995 the judge said his lengthy sentence reflected Bailey's involvement in the conspiracy to kill her. Over the years ...

Feb. 26—ROCHESTER — The clerk at the Rochester gift shop recalled how the woman appeared to be in a hurry. "It was as if someone was waiting for her or she had somewhere to go," said Phyllis Redalen, ...