2 charged with killing mom, daughter found in burning car: cops
BY MICHAEL LANSU Staff Reporter September 23, 2013 5:09PM
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Updated: September 24, 2013 11:12AM
Two men were charged with strangling an elderly woman and her daughter — the wife of one of the men — police said Monday night.
The women’s bodies were found in the trunk of a burning car late Saturday in a Palos Township forest preserve.
Robert Danno, 50, and Jose Fernardo Martinez-Hernandez, 24, were charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, according to Cook County Sheriff’s police, who said the two men are not related.
Danno and Martinez-Hernandez are accused of murdering Danno’s wife, Mary Ann Urban-Danno, 51, and her mother Theresa Urban, 79, according to Cook County Sheriff’s police.
The women were killed Saturday in the 5600 block of South Neenah in Chicago, then their bodies were stuffed into the trunk of Urban-Danno’s Chrysler PT Cruiser, which was torched about 11:45 p.m. Saturday in the Cap Sauers Holdings Nature Preserve in the 11600 block of Ford Road in Palos Park, police said.
Palos Fire Protection District firefighters found the bodies after extinguishing the flames, said Cook County Sheriff’s police spokesman Benjamin Breit.
An autopsy on Sunday determined both women died from strangulation and their deaths were ruled homicides, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
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