found:New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 21, 2018(in obituary published Sept. 20: Jon Burge; b. Jon Graham Burge, Dec. 20, 1947, South Deering, on Chicago's South Side; d. this week, Hillsborough County, Fla., aged 70; lived in Apollo Beach; former Chicago police commander whose reported torture of criminal suspects cost the city more than $100 million in legal fees and reparations and prompted the governor to pardon four death row inmates and halt capital punishment in Illinois; joined the police department in 1970; fired from the force in 1993, he was never prosecuted for torture because the statute of limitations had lapsed; also acquitted in a 1989 civil rights suit filed by an inmate who said he had been coerced into falsely confessing to the killing of his wife, infant child, and five others in an arson investigation; convicted on federal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2010 for denying, in response to the civil suit, that he had inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on prisoners in his custody)
Jon Burge
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