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Illinois man guilty of killing wife in '73, making it look like car crash

CHICAGO - Donnie Rudd, the former northwest suburban lawyer and school board member, has been found guilty of killing his second wife 45 years ago.

Rudd, now 76, was convicted Monday of first-degree murder after a weeklong trial in Cook County and about three hours of jury deliberations.

Prosecutors said Rudd staged Noreen Kumeta Rudd's death to look like a car accident and that authorities at the time believed him because

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