This gets worse
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/30430769/death-of-fox-lake-officer-a-carefully-staged-suicide
The death of Fox Lake, Illinois, police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was "a carefully staged suicide," Lake County Major Crimes Task Force commander George Filenko said Wednesday. "This staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that Gliniewicz had been committing."
Gliniewicz was under increasing levels of stress from scrutiny into what the investigators found to be criminal activity, Filenko said.
The officer had been stealing and laundering money from the police department program that mentored young people hoping to become law enforcement officers, Filenko said. Gliniewic was a leader in that program, and had been stealing money for at least seven years, he said.
The investigation found that the officer -- who had experience creating mock crime scenes -- staged his suicide to make it look like a homicide.
The investigation indicates at least two others were involved in criminal activity, though that inquiry is ongoing, and police are not commenting further on this angle for now, Filenko said.
Gliniewicz, 52, was embezzling money through the program, funneling tens of thousands of dollars for personal purposes — including mortgage payments, travel expenses, gym memberships, adult websites and loans to associates, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko told reporters.
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Fox Lake Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz.
Lake County Sheriff’s Office
After pouring through emails and text messages looking for clues, police also determined Gliniewicz had been forging signatures and communicating about his alleged acts with at least two other people. The case remains ongoing.
Electronic communications show that the 30-year veteran knew village administrators were investigating his involvement with the Explorers and that he began to feel pressure about six months ago.
As part of the ruse, he left his pepper spray, baton and glasses strewn in strategically placed locations before shooting himself twice at the crime scene — a remote area of Fox Lake, Filenko said at a news conference