Kurt rouse where is he now

I thought I knew a thing or two. At the same time, he may have helped his brother's defense when he described William's relationship with his parents. In an interview outside the courtroom, Kurt Rouse said he wished he wasn't there and rebutted the allegations that it was he who could have committed the crime.

Rouse is charged with two counts of murder. Because he was a juvenile at the time, he cannot receive the death penalty. But if convicted, he faces a potential sentence of 20 years to life in prison.

Authorities also hinted Friday that they might have renewed the search for weapons used to kill Bruce and Darlene Rouse, although Waller and Undersheriff Gary Del Re, refused to confirm that Rouse told them where to look. In response to questions at a press conference in Waukegan on Friday afternoon about whether Rouse had accomplices in carrying out the slaying, Del Re said: "Billy's very adamant that his brother and sister were not involved.

The surprise disclosure about a confession in the case drew reactions of relief not only from investigators but also from some members of a community that all along suspected one or more of the three Rouse children had gotten away with murder. The bodies of the parents were found June 6, , in their bedroom at N. Milwaukee Ave. Investigators said at the time that Darlene, 38, died instantly of a shotgun blast between the eyes.

Her year-old husband, apparently awakened by the noise, was hit by a second round from the shotgun. Then, still alive, he was stabbed six times in the heart. When Billy Rouse moved to Florida, Fagan used his police connections to monitor his scrapes with the law. Rouse used his inheritance to buy a home in Key West, but he couldn't stop his life from spiraling out of control.

He got married and fathered two sons before his wife divorced him. He couldn't pay the taxes and lost his house. He lived as a drifter, always in trouble with alcohol, drugs and petty crimes. In , while living in a transient hotel, Rouse went to jail for 60 days after he disrupted a chess game and stabbed a man.

Rouse was living in a ramshackle houseboat with no doors when he was arrested in a bank robbery case. Michael Blazincic and state's attorney's investigator David Ostertag to visit Rouse in a Florida lock-up.

As Rouse talked about his sad life, Fagan sensed he wanted to talk about his parents. Fagan had the foresight to videotape Rouse's confession on Oct. Rouse and his mom fought constantly about drug and alcohol use and about how he was stupid and would never amount to anything, Rouse told Fagan. The boy drank a couple of beers and bought some weed and mushrooms before he came home that night and was confronted by his mom, who threatened to send him to military school.

The boy grabbed a knife but worried stabbing might be too slow. He went upstairs and cleaned his shotgun before opting for his dad's semi-automatic shotgun. I don't remember pulling it, but the trigger went off," Rouse told Fagan. It wasn't that good of a shot, just grazed him more or less, and he fell back on the bed," Rouse says. His dad was alive even though the gunshot ripped off his lower jaw, so Rouse struck his father with the butt of the gun. That didn't work," said Rouse, who fractured his father's skull before he went to the kitchen to fetch a knife.

Rouse, washing the blood off his arms and hair in the utility room, thought, "I've got to make it look like somebody else did it. His sister, coming home later from a high school dance at Lake Forest Academy, went to bed, while Billy Rouse gathered up the evidence and left.

Figuring that fleeing would "make me look really guilty," Rouse drove to the Route 60 bridge over the Des Plaines River. There was no traffic in the pouring rain, so he made three trips to throw everything in the river before he returned home.

Four months later, a surveyor wading into the river during a road-widening project stumbled upon guns and a garbage bag of items that included a purse and wallet with a driver's license. Neither Kurt nor Billy was cooperating with authorities periodically looking into the killings. After all, police surmised, there was nothing that could be done until one or the other confessed or implicated their late sister. By , no investigator was working on the case except to keep track of where Billy and Kurt were living.

By he had burned through his inheritance and had been in jail at least four times on various drug-related charges. He had been married and divorced and was living in a flea-bitten, rotting houseboat with several other itinerants. In he was arrested for attempted murder in a stabbing over a chess match.

He was convicted of misdemeanor battery and received 60 days in jail. This time Billy was willing to talk. He discussed his final argument with his mother over his drug use and became incensed when she told him he was heading to a military school.

After his parents went to bed, while under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms and booze, Billy decided to kill them. He considered using a steak knife, but decided instead on the shotgun. Billy stabbed his father to death. After the killing, he was immediately struck with remorse, he said. In the house was destroyed in an arson fire that left nothing behind but ashes and bad memories.

For violence and hurt tangle every man in their toils, and for the most part fall on the head of him from whom they had their rise; nor is it easy for one by who his act breaks the common pact of peace to lead a a calm and quiet life. On the Nature of Things. Through this great gallery of murder together let us wander hand in hand, in delighted admiration, while I endeavor to point your attention to the objects of profitable criticism.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a state's failure; all crime in the end is the crime of the community. Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.