‘I feel so bad for what (they) have seen’: Victim’s mom to jurors who found ex-Northwestern professor guilty of murdering boyfriend

CHICAGO — A former Northwestern professor was convicted Thursday of murder in the gruesome 2017 stabbing death of his boyfriend.

Cook County jurors deliberated for less than two hours before returning the guilty verdict for Wyndham Lathem, an accomplished microbiologist who was fired from Northwestern when he fled town after the killing.

Jurors heard about a week and a half of testimony, during which prosecutors described Lathem as a coldblooded murderer animated by despair who stabbed defenseless 26-year-old Trenton Cornell.

By contrast, the defense argued, Lathem was simply a traumatized bystander who was framed