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    FBI expert concluded Chicago cop's shooting staged to appear as a suicide

    by Jason Meisner, Annie Sweeney and Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune Jan 12, 2018 5 minutes

    CHICAGO - Veteran Chicago police Sgt. Donald Markham was shot by someone else at point-blank range in his home in 2015 before the scene was staged to appear to be a suicide, a forensic pathologist hired by the FBI concluded in a report obtained Thursday by the Chicago Tribune.

    The five-page report contradicts Cook County officials' ruling that Markham had shot himself in September 2015 after a drunken argument with his wife, Dina, also a veteran Chicago cop. The report was part of a yearlong probe by the FBI, which began after questions were raised within the Chicago Police Department about Markham's death.

    The mystery deepened last May when Dina Markham, 47, was herself found dead, submerged in a bathtub in the couple's home in the 5900 block of North Newark Avenue. Her death, ruled

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