Thomas Kokoraleis, 59, was released from a Chicago prison on Friday after serving 35 years, or half of his 70-year prison sentence, for abduction, rape and murder. Kokoraleis was part of a satanic cult known as the “Ripper Crew” that terrorized the streets of Chicago during the early 1980s, and …
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