Illinois Gov. Rauner denies clemency for dead man despite serial killer's confession
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has rejected posthumous clemency for an Illinois man despite the confession of a serial killer to the crime more than a decade after the inmate died.
Grover Thompson died in 1996 while serving a 40-year sentence for the attempted 1981 murder of 72-year-old Ida White in Mount Vernon.
Two police detectives told The Associated Press that serial killer Timothy Krajcir (CRY-chur) confessed to White's stabbing long after Thompson had died.
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Krajcir is imprisoned for two southern Illinois killings, has received life sentences for five southeast Missouri killings and has pleaded guilty to killings in Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
A Dec. 2 Illinois Prisoner Review Board letter provided to The Associated Press shows that Rauner denied clemency for Thompson in late November. Rauner's office declined further comment.