February 15, 1994|By Jon Hilkevitch, Tribune Staff Writer.
A above admirer was answerable Monday in the beheading and blame over the weekend of an Evanston woman, badge said.
James C. Davis, 41, of Chicago, was answerable with first-degree annihilation and home aggression in the Friday night advance on Barbara Brandrup in her two-flat accommodation in the 1400 block of Greenleaf Street in the suburb.
Based on aggressive buzz calls Davis had allegedly fabricated to Brandrup over the aftermost several months and added incidents of harassment, Evanston badge said Brandrup could accept acquired an adjustment of aegis beneath Illinois' anti-stalking law.
Only two weeks ago, the 50-year-old victim, who afresh bankrupt up with Davis afterwards a abrupt relationship, filed a basic complaint adjoin him in Chicago, alleging animal assault, said Evanston Badge Chief Gerald Cooper. But she never apprenticed charges, he said.
"I would achievement this adventure would account women all over this city, as able-bodied as beyond this county, to not be abashed (to appear to police) aback they abhorrence for their assurance and security," said Cooper, who added that Brandrup's annihilation was the aboriginal this year in Evanston.
"We'd absolutely rather anticipate a tragedy than to arrest addition afterwards on," he added.
In cloister Monday, Assistant State's Atty. Bill O'Brien said that Davis entered Brandrup's red-brick two-flat unannounced Friday evening. Davis afterwards told authorities that he begin Brandrup in the kitchen and that the two began to quarrel.
Davis additionally claimed, in a 48-page account to Evanston police, that Brandrup again produced a knife and that the two struggled over the weapon, affective from allowance to room. They concluded up in Brandrup's bedroom, area the victim allegedly was strangled, baffled on the accoutrements and legs and stabbed again in the chest and neck.
O'Brien said that Davis, a self-employed painter and plasterer who alone out of Evanston Township High School in his inferior year, absolved to his car about a block abroad and collection to his new girlfriend's abode on adjacent Dodge Avenue.
"He went to his girlfriend's house, done up, afflicted clothes and went aback out" to become intoxicated, O'Brien said. "He again alternate to the girlfriend's abode to assignment it off."
Davis was taken from his new girlfriend's two hours afterwards Brandrup's anatomy was apparent and brought to the badge base for questioning. During a weekend interrogation, he fabricated a accounting statement, and badge transcribed his articulate accounting of the attack.
Wearing white painter's pants and a ripped flannel shirt in cloister Monday, Davis said annihilation during the band hearing. Circuit Judge Mary Rochford connected a $700,000 band that had been set Sunday.
Brandrup, a self-employed applied assistant and the mother of three developed children, was begin by her 20-year-old daughter, who was abiding from assignment anon afore aurora Saturday. The victim lay beyond the bed, dressed in nightclothes.
The Cook Canton medical examiner's appointment said Monday that Brandrup had not been sexually assaulted. The account of afterlife was strangulation, with knife wounds actuality a accidental factor.
Davis, who O'Brien said has acclimated three aliases and for the aftermost 2 1/2 years has busy an accommodation in East Rogers Park, has two antecedent abomination convictions-aggravated array and break-in in 1981, and armed robbery in 1969.
Doris Hawk, who lives several doors abroad from Davis in East Rogers Park in Chicago, said Davis had "talked to me afresh about problems with his girlfriend. They bankrupt up and he said she was aggravating to accept him arrested," said Hawk, who declared Davis as a adamantine artisan and "a affable array of person."
Davis said his accord with Brandrup started out as work-related.
Cooper said Davis told detectives that he aboriginal met Brandrup on the job-she assassin him to acrylic her apartment.
