Chicago police release sketches
Men sought for interviews after slayings of judge's relatives
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CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Chicago police Wednesday night released composite sketches of two men they want to talk with regarding the shooting deaths of a judge's husband and mother.
Chief of Detectives James Molloy described one of the men as white, with a medium build, in his mid-20s, with strawberry blond hair and between 5 feet 8 inches and 6 feet tall.
The second man was described as white, 50 to 60 years of age, from 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, with hazel eyes and a large build. Molloy said the man was wearing dark green coveralls, a black watch cap and a gray-green coat.
The first man was reported seen in a vehicle at the north end of the block where the bodies of Michael Lefkow, 64, and Donna Grace Humphrey, 89, were found Monday by U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, Molloy said.
Judge Lefkow, 61, was once targeted for death by a white supremacist leader, but officials said there was no clear link to the killings. (Full story)
She returned to her home on North Lakewood Avenue after 5:30 p.m. Monday and found the bodies in the basement. Both had been shot, Molloy said.
Police have changed the telephone numbers for tips to 311 in Chicago and 312-744-5000 for people outside the city.
A task force composed of FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and detectives pulled in from other precincts are working in 12-hour shifts around the clock, police have said.
In April 2004, avowed white supremacist Matthew Hale was found guilty on charges that he tried to arrange for the murder of Judge Lefkow.
The judge, presiding over a trademark infringement suit, had ordered Hale's group to stop using the name World Church of the Creator, which belonged to another religious group with no ties to Hale.
Hale said Thursday his followers did not kill the judge's husband and mother, according to Time magazine.
The article says Hale issued his first statement on the murders through his mother from the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center.
"There is simply no way that any supporter of mine would commit such a heinous crime," Evelyn Hutcheson quoted her son as saying. "I totally condemn it and I want the perpetrator caught and prosecuted. I only hope they sincerely wish to apprehend this animal instead of railroading the innocent. Only an idiot would think that I would do this. My sentencing date is April 6."
Lefkow and her surviving family members are receiving federal protection in the wake of the killings, authorities said Thursday
Last April, the U.S. Marshals Service assigned the judge a protection detail, but it was "deemed not viable" and withdrawn after "a couple of weeks," a representative of the U.S. Marshals Service told reporters Tuesday.
