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Monday, December 26, 2016Jottings." Jari worked as a writer/reporter/editor for several newspapers including the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Chicago Tribune, Evansville Courier, Champaign News-Gazette, Lincoln-Way Sun and New Lenox Community Reporter.Her passion for journalism started as a teen when she worked summers for the Marion Daily Republican. While working for the Joliet Herald she wrote a book, "A Dozen Knights and Griffins," in tribute to the Lincoln-Way High School District.She met and interviewed many celebrities, including presidents and their wives, political figures and many more. This includes a close relationship and friendship with movie critic Roger Ebert, with whom she shared a special relationship throughout their careers.After a 53-year career spanning several states, Jari returned to Marion where she was involved in many organizations. She served as past vice president for the Federated Woman's Club of Marion and the Southern Illinois District 25 Women's Club.She joined the Southern Illinois Writers Guild and her memberships included the Marion Cultural and Civic Center Foundation Board, Suzanne Stuckey Mission Circle, Deborah Circle of Zion Church and Marion First Baptist Church.Although Jari never married or had any children of her own, she had close family members whom she loved, cherished and enjoyed spending time with; and special caregiver and friend Joann Pearce and her childhood friends Ursula Richey, Claire Giles, Ann Schafle Trask, Betsy Hendrick and Esta Mae Fowler.She was preceded by her parents; Haskell Hunter, who was like a second mother; and cousins, Charlotte Hilliard, Janet Coats, Christine Mondus, Don Pearce and Debbie Clanah...
Monday, September 26, 2016Sometimes they are called to clear a meth lab.“When people ask me what I do, they say, ‘Wow,’ and then they get really interested,” said Dan Reynolds, a lieutenant in the New Lenox Fire Protection District in suburban Chicago who started Chicago Crime Scene Cleanup in 2007 with his wife, Kelly, to supplement his income. “But I don’t think they understand what all goes into it. They don’t understand the emotional side of it.”Potential clients are enduring the worst time of their lives, cleaners say.“Nobody calls me on a good day,” Reynolds said. “Trying to understand what they’re going through is a big part of it.”The processWhen a cleaner arrives on a site, bodies are gone but the dreadful signs of what happened remain, including body fluids and matter on floors, walls and ceilings. Insects, rodents, feces and overwhelming odor also can be present.Reynolds recalled a job several years ago, when he was called to a murder scene in a third-floor apartment on Chicago’s South Side. The victim had been dead for several days, during which time the sink overflowed, flooding the third-floor unit and apartments below it.“We were out there for a couple weeks,” Reynolds said.Muir handled a recent, notorious crime scene: the murders of six family members in a brick bungalow in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood Feb. 2. Five employees worked for 12 hours to restore the home, Muir said.At a church service for the victims, Diego Uribe, a relative, hugged Muir and praised him for cleaning the home, Muir recalled. About three months later, Uribe and his girlfriend were charged with the killings.“I was dumbfounded,” Muir said.Both pleaded not guilty in June and are scheduled to return to court Sept. 14.Graphic scenes can crowd the minds of cleaners, and the most jarring of those images involve child victims, Reynolds and Muir said.“You have to be really good at removing yourself from the situation,” said Reynolds, 42. “Once you put it in terms that you’re there to do a job and help the family, it becomes a little easier.”Muir, 48, said he copes with the most nightmarish scenes by visualizing how loved ones of the victim want the room to look after his work — as if the victim never occupied it.“That basically takes me right out of it,” he said. “You gotta go back to always helping first.”A growing industryCrime- and trauma-scene cleaning companies trace their roots to the early 1990s, said Andrew Yurchuck, president of the American Bio Recovery Association, an industry trade group. In the early days, a dozen or so companies existed, he said. Today “500 to 800 com...
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Monday, December 26, 2016Jottings." Jari worked as a writer/reporter/editor for several newspapers including the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Chicago Tribune, Evansville Courier, Champaign News-Gazette, Lincoln-Way Sun and New Lenox Community Reporter.Her passion for journalism started as a teen when she worked summers for the Marion Daily Republican. While working for the Joliet Herald she wrote a book, "A Dozen Knights and Griffins," in tribute to the Lincoln-Way High School District.She met and interviewed many celebrities, including presidents and their wives, political figures and many more. This includes a close relationship and friendship with movie critic Roger Ebert, with whom she shared a special relationship throughout their careers.After a 53-year career spanning several states, Jari returned to Marion where she was involved in many organizations. She served as past vice president for the Federated Woman's Club of Marion and the Southern Illinois District 25 Women's Club.She joined the Southern Illinois Writers Guild and her memberships included the Marion Cultural and Civic Center Foundation Board, Suzanne Stuckey Mission Circle, Deborah Circle of Zion Church and Marion First Baptist Church.Although Jari never married or had any children of her own, she had close family members whom she loved, cherished and enjoyed spending time with; and special caregiver and friend Joann Pearce and her childhood friends Ursula Richey, Claire Giles, Ann Schafle Trask, Betsy Hendrick and Esta Mae Fowler.She was preceded by her parents; Haskell Hunter, who was like a second mother; and cousins, Charlotte Hilliard, Janet Coats, Christine Mondus, Don Pearce and Debbie Clanah...
Monday, September 26, 2016Sometimes they are called to clear a meth lab.“When people ask me what I do, they say, ‘Wow,’ and then they get really interested,” said Dan Reynolds, a lieutenant in the New Lenox Fire Protection District in suburban Chicago who started Chicago Crime Scene Cleanup in 2007 with his wife, Kelly, to supplement his income. “But I don’t think they understand what all goes into it. They don’t understand the emotional side of it.”Potential clients are enduring the worst time of their lives, cleaners say.“Nobody calls me on a good day,” Reynolds said. “Trying to understand what they’re going through is a big part of it.”The processWhen a cleaner arrives on a site, bodies are gone but the dreadful signs of what happened remain, including body fluids and matter on floors, walls and ceilings. Insects, rodents, feces and overwhelming odor also can be present.Reynolds recalled a job several years ago, when he was called to a murder scene in a third-floor apartment on Chicago’s South Side. The victim had been dead for several days, during which time the sink overflowed, flooding the third-floor unit and apartments below it.“We were out there for a couple weeks,” Reynolds said.Muir handled a recent, notorious crime scene: the murders of six family members in a brick bungalow in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood Feb. 2. Five employees worked for 12 hours to restore the home, Muir said.At a church service for the victims, Diego Uribe, a relative, hugged Muir and praised him for cleaning the home, Muir recalled. About three months later, Uribe and his girlfriend were charged with the killings.“I was dumbfounded,” Muir said.Both pleaded not guilty in June and are scheduled to return to court Sept. 14.Graphic scenes can crowd the minds of cleaners, and the most jarring of those images involve child victims, Reynolds and Muir said.“You have to be really good at removing yourself from the situation,” said Reynolds, 42. “Once you put it in terms that you’re there to do a job and help the family, it becomes a little easier.”Muir, 48, said he copes with the most nightmarish scenes by visualizing how loved ones of the victim want the room to look after his work — as if the victim never occupied it.“That basically takes me right out of it,” he said. “You gotta go back to always helping first.”A growing industryCrime- and trauma-scene cleaning companies trace their roots to the early 1990s, said Andrew Yurchuck, president of the American Bio Recovery Association, an industry trade group. In the early days, a dozen or so companies existed, he said. Today “500 to 800 com...
