CHICAGO (STMW) - A Cook County jury Thursday convicted a Carpentersville man of robbing and killing an elderly Bridgeport woman and then using her stolen wedding and engagement rings to propose to his high school sweetheart.
“We think it’s a little demented, creepy,” Virginia Perillo’s eldest son, John, said of how Raymond Harris bludgeoned her to death and then gave her jewelry to his girlfriend during a romantic moment. “Mr. Harris has no morals. . . . All he cares about is himself.”
He said there will always be “a gap” in his and his family’s life, but he was glad the trial was over, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Mark Perillo, who will turn 39 on Friday, called the guilty verdicts an “early birthday” present.
The jury took roughly three hours to convict Harris, 40, of murder and robbery.
Harris was arrested a month after a neighbor found Virginia Perillo facedown in a pool of blood next to a running car in her garage on Oct. 11, 2011.
The night the 73-year-old nurse was killed, Harris, a parolee, went to a party in new clothes and asked his friend which of the stolen rings he should use to propose, authorities said at the time.
Five days later, Harris popped the question to his love, Lorraine Reed.
Reed testified earlier this week that she said “Yes.”
Reed later turned the rings over to Chicago Police detectives who arrived at her home and questioned her about Harris.
“I took the rings off my fingers” and gave them to detectives, Reed said.
Harris’ DNA was found on a bloody watch that he left inside a car in Virginia Perillo’s garage in the 3300 block of South Parnell. Harris also took Virginia Perillo’s purse during the deadly beating.
Hours before she was killed in the brutal assault, she spent the day attending church, buying groceries and visiting an area hospital to check on her husband, who had suffered a stroke, her family said.
Her husband couldn’t attend this week’s trial because of his failing health. Had she still been alive, Virginia Perillo would probably be spending time taking care of him, the couple’s youngest son, Michael, said Thursday.
Harris was paroled in May 2011 after serving 13 years of a 30-year sentence for his 1997 attempted murder and aggravated arson convictions.
Just three weeks before that attack, Harris had been released from prison for a 1993 armed robbery, vehicular invasion and burglary. In that case, Harris brandished a gun at a woman leaving her car outside her home.
(Rant: This savage murdered an elderly woman coming home from church because he wanted her stuff. This is exactly the kind of guy that Obama and Hillary want to get out of prison. He is exactly the kind of guy who Obama would prohibit from asking about his record when giving him a job or renting him an apartment. He is exactly the kind of guy he wants to move to your neighborhood under the "disparate impact theory" so he can scope out your grandmother to murder and rob. This is exactly the kind of story that the mainstream media will not report or have as a one day wonder. When you vote for Hillary you are voting for this guy to move next door to you. Remember that when you tell me you can't vote for a guy who pulled himself out of poverty in Detroit because he mislabeled something that happened thirty years ago as a scholarship.)
15 comments:
For he's a jolly good felon,
For he's a jolly good felon,
For he's a jolly good felon,
Nobody deny him the vote!
While the SJW's could never justify the murder, they could easily and gladly justify the theft as reparations.
Put President Pissy and the Hildabeast in the cell with him (we can all find plenty to convict them) and throw away the key.
This is why I'm for the death penalty.
It may not deter anybody else, but it sure as Hell will deter him from murdering anybody.
How about we put all the mutts they want release in Chicago.
My first comment was intended for R&B who is just enough of an asshole to argue that these kinds of guys need the vote.
Trump fan said...
How about we put all the mutts they want release in Chicago.
Hawaii.
You honestly think Pissy, the environmental warrior who has to keep the thermostat at 80, is going to endure another ChIraq winter?
So when's the wedding?
Important part is that he is registered to vote as a democrat.
I don't golf with eyetalians - they keep repositioning their balls.
I bring it up all the time, but Fen's Law just might be the long sought unifying theory of the Universe.
"Bernie Sanders bashes “unregulated” Uber, uses it for 100% of his taxi rides."
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2015/11/bernie-sanders-bashes-unregulated-uber-uses-it-for-100-of-his-taxi-rides/
Seems to me a perfect candidate for the Gas Chamber - if they still had one. Of course, most would disagree. Mustn't put the poor Lamb to death, that would be Cruel.
BTW, this is very similar to an old Dragnet episode 1968? - which is base on an actual case "The names have been changed to protect the innocent". In the Dragnet episode, the Young Killer kills an old man for his money and takes takes the Old widowers wedding ring and gives it to his girlfriend. When the girlfriend shows her "engagement ring" to Friday and Gannon she says "what does that mean to you?" and Friday replies " 20 to Life"
bagoh20 said...
I don't golf with eyetalians - they keep repositioning their balls.
Plus they use woodys as putters. Especially around Joy Harmon.
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