'I want to go on with my life and be left alone,' newly released Ripper Crew murderer says

AURORA, Ill. - I walked into the small office on the second floor of the Wayside Cross Ministries in Aurora this week and met the man infamously known as the Ripper Crew Killer.

I was well aware of his story, as is anyone not living under a Fox River rock: Thomas Kokoraleis, one of a group of four men suspected of killing as many as 17 women in Chicago and the suburbs in the early 1980s, was released from prison last Friday after serving half of a 70-year sentence. He agreed to meet with me to make his first public comments since his release from prison.

After registering as a sex offender with Aurora police over the weekend, he is now living at Wayside Cross, a move Mayor Richard Irvin vehemently opposes, as do a large number of community members who signed an online petition and are threatening to protest