Illinois

Events unfolded quickly according to investigators' timeline, spanning just 17 minutes. Lt. Gliniewicz reported the suspicious men at 7:52 a.m. and when backup officers arrived three minutes later they could not find their fellow officer. At 8:09 a.m. they found him unresponsive in a wooded and weeded area not far from his patrol car.

Lt. Gliniewicz's call said only that two of the suspicious men were white and one was black.

"That was the original radio traffic given by the officer when called in the suspicious person, and that was the only description provided," Chief Filenko said. "The scene where the lieutenant's body was found is an abandoned concrete factory. Despite the fact that it took only three minutes for back up to arrive, as you can see there are lots of place to hide and easy escape to be had."