Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 104

PAGE TWO SECTION THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1981 Executive charged with 3 arsenic killings to gain fortune the money after her husband's death, they said. Officials said Charles Albanese had planned to leave last week for Jamaica with his wife and his mother. Babcox said the arrest came just before the trip because "we couldn't give them (the women) the proper protection there." Albanese was being held in McHenry County Jail. Bond was set at $2.5 million. He also was charged with the attempted murder, by arsenic poisoning, of his brother, Michael an Allied Die Casting officer.

Investigators said Michael usually took his lunch to work and they believe Charles Albanese laced his brother's lunch with arsenic. Michael, 34, of Arlington Heights, is walking on crutches and still suffering from the effects of arsenic poisoning on his nervous system, Babcox said. The deaths at first were classified as resulting from unknown causes, according to authorities, but fingernail and other samples from the autopsy of Albanese's father showed an unusually high amount of arsenic. After that, all three bodies were exhumed, and high arsenic levels were found in them. The investigation was spearheaded by McHenry County Coroner Alvin Querhammer and Babcox, with McHenry village Police Chief George Pasenelli.

Sources said it was the persistent curiosity of Querhammer and Babcox that led to the arrest. banese slipped arsenic into their food, especially desserts, sources said. Albanese eventually prevailed upon Lambert to change provisions in her will, leaving her property to Mueller and bypassing Mueller's brother, Francis Lambert, also of Leisure Village, and Mueller's sister, Elizabeth Voges, of Park Ridge, sources said. Under terms of Mueller's will, her property passed to Albanese's wife, Virginia, sources said. Lambert's and Mueller's combined estates totaled about $150,000.

After they died, Albanese sold their Leisure Village home for less than its market value to realize some quick cash, sources said. The plot to kill his father and brother involved gaining control of the Allied Die Casting of which Charles Albanese is president, sources said. The family-owned business, estimated to be worth more than $1.5 million, provided that stock holdings of a deceased family member reverted to the firm, sources said. The poisoning of Albanese's father also involved food, investigators said. Albanese apparently took his father luncheon snacks of arsenic-laced cookies and coffee, sources said.

In addition to their shares in the business, the father and the brother carried $200,000 life insurance policies, sources said. Michael Albanese's widow, Clara, collected By Art Petacque and Thomas Burton 1981 Chicago Sun-Times CH ICAGO A suburban executive has been charged with murdering his father, mother-in-law and his wife's grandmother by poisoning them with arsenic, officials said. Charles Albanese, 44, who was arrested after a seven-month investigation, also is accused of the attempted murder of his brother. Sources close to the investigation told the Chicago Sun-Times that Albanese hoped to gain a family fortune worth more than $1 million, most of it from operations of the family-owned Allied Die Casting Co, in McHenry County, northwest of Chicago. Lake County Coroner Robert H.

Babcox said, "In my 20 years as coroner of Lake County, I have never encountered such a coldblooded, calculated, sordid destruction of two families." Officials involved in the seven-month investigation described a chain of events that sounded like an episode from television's "Quincy," the program about a dogged medical examiner. The chain started during a conversation between two curious coroners at a convention months ago and ended with the exhumation of the three bodies, and the positive identification of arsenic in them. Albanese, of Spring Grove, has been in trouble with the law before, being accused of armed robbery. Now he has been charged with the murders of the three relatives, who lived at Leisure Village, a wealthy, heavily guarded retirement center of ranch-style homes in Fox Lake. The dead are: Mary Lambert, 89, the grandmother of Albanese's wife, Virginia.

Mrs. Lambert died on Aug. 6, 1980. Marion Mueller, 69, Albanese's mother-in-law, who died 12 days after her mother, Mrs. Lambert.

Michael Albanese, 69, his father, who died on May 16. Authorities said Michael Albanese was the founder of Allied Die Casting. Charles Albanese "always wanted to be a big shot," says a longtime family acquaintance. Elizabeth Nix who has known the Albanese family since the early 1940s said Charles, the eldest son of the murdered Michael Albanese, was "a spoiled brat." The Sun-Times learned that Charles Albanese, apparently in need of money, allegedly constructed an intricate murder plot and began it months before the first death. Investigators believe Albanese began by insinuating himself into the household of Lambert and Mueller, who shared a Leisure Village home, sources said.

Albanese became a frequent visitor, often bearing presents of jewelry and other items, sources said. While dining with the two women almost daily, Al after I hanksgiyiiig- CLOSED THANKSCIVING DAY SPECIAL STORE HOURS: 8 A.M.-9 P.M. 8 A.M.-9 P.M. SAT; 11 A.M.-6P.M. SUN.

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