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1 Northwest Herald nwherald.com Friday, July 13, 2007 Page 5C PLAINFIELD: WOMAN MISSING FOR MONTHS Police name husband person of interest' Authorities say foul play possible Call my lawyer." In a phone interview, his divorce attorney Dion Davi said that he believed that police had considered Stebic a person of interest all along and that Thursday's public pronouncement "is just a tack the police are using to try and force Craig's hand to intimidate him." Davi said he had counseled Stebic not to allow the children to be questioned and added that the youngsters already talked to authorities a day or two after the disappearance. "There does not appear to be any new information upon which to question them," Davi said. The attorney said his client is trying to make sure his children have as normal a summer as possible. During the news conference, the police chief said authorities had found no signs that Lisa Stebic left the house "of her own free will." Friends and family members whom detectives have interviewed said she never would have abandoned her' children, and authorities are "now focusing on the scenario that she is most likely the victim of foul play," Bennett said. Bennett declined to answer any reporters' questions.

The case also made news earlier this week when a TV reporter covering the case was videotaped wearing a swimsuit at Craig Stebic's home and posted on rival TV station WBBM-TV's Web site. Reporter Amy Jacobson, who said she was just aggressively pursuing a source on her day off, was then fired by WMAQ-TV "Police have logged thousands of hours in this investigation and have pursued every viable lead," Bennett said. "Unfortunately, Mr. Stebic had denied investigators the crucial opportunity to conduct a thorough, in-person interview with his children." The children were among the last people to see their mother, the police chief said, and authorities believe that they might have "valuable information that will assist in the investigation." About an hour after the news conference, Stebic drove past reporters posted outside his spacious, two-story home and parked his pickup truck in the garage. Inside the home, he started shutting windows, and when a reporter approached, said: "You know I can't talk to you guys.

mailed off a petition seeking to remove Craig Stebic from their home. He was the last person to report seeing his wife on the evening of April 30; there has been no activity since on her credit cards, checking account or cell phone. At a news conference, Plainfield Police Chief Donald Bennett said that during the 10-week investigation, Craig Stebic had "offered only minimal assistance to detectives" and refused to participate in any searches organized by his wife's family and supported by police. Bennett said that Stebic had twice refused requests by police and the Will County state's attorney's office to let investigators talk to his children, ages 10 and 12, about their mother's disappearance. By MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press PLAINFIELD The estranged husband of a suburban Chicago woman missing for more than two months was named a "person of interest" Thursday by police, who also said they fear that Lisa Stebic was the victim of foul play.

The couple were going through a divorce, but they still lived together with their two children in the family's Plainfield home. On the day of Lisa Stebic's disappearance, she had BARRINGTON: MOTORCYCLE, CAR COLLIDE Carpentersville man's actions may have helped save life pentersville was traveling on Route 59 when the accident happened. He stopped and used a tourniquet to stop bleeding from Murawski's left leg, badly injured by the impact of the accident, Parma said. "He is probably credited for saving the life of the gentleman," Parma said. by Flight for Life to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge after a Honda Accord struck Murawski's Harley-Davidson motorcycle on Route 59 between Penny and Bartlett Roads, South Barrington police Sgt.

Sam Parma said. Murawski was in fair condition Thursday night, hospital officials said. By EMILY PREVITI eprevitinwnewsgroup.com BARRINGTON A motorcycle crash Thursday landed a Hoffman Estates man in the hospital, but it could have been worse without a fast-acting passer-by police said. Michael Murawski, 36, of Hoffman Estates was airlifted Thursday night. Alcohol and drugs did not appear to be factors, Parma said.

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