$3 Million Dollar Bail for Murderer Escobar

3 million bail for fugitive
Death penalty, natural life not options if convicted

February 15, 2007
By staff writers Lauren FitzPatrick and William Lee

Bail was set at $3 million this morning for a 31-year-old man whom authorities said fled to Mexico after fatally stabbing his girlfriend in her Chicago Ridge home.

If convicted of murder, Viliulfo Escobar will not face the death penalty or a sentence of natural life in prison as conditions of his extradition from Mexico.

It took nearly a year for authorities to extradite Viliulfo Escobar to Cook County to face charges that he killed Melissa Stromek on New Year's Day 2004 in her condominium.

On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. marshals handed Escobar over to Cook County sheriff's police and Chicago Ridge police at O'Hare International Airport, sheriff's police spokeswoman Penny Mateck said.

Three years ago at the same airport, Escobar boarded an airplane to Mexico after ditching Stromek's 2000 Ford Focus less than a mile from O'Hare, police said.

Federal marshals apprehended Escobar in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, a year ago on a first-degree murder warrant issued about three weeks after the murder. Escobar had been staying with family members who lived in Guerrero's capital city, Mateck said.

Escobar neither fought extradition nor did he make a statement while awaiting extradition, she said.

Investigators believe Escobar fled to Mexico within a day or two of Stromek's murder inside her condo in the 10300 block of Ridgeland Avenue. Police say Escobar killed the Northern Illinois University graduate because she wanted to end their two-year relationship.

Stromek, 26, a project manager at Pollution Control Industries in East Chicago, Ind., and an amateur boxer, was stabbed at least six times.

The crime originally was investigated by the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force, working with Chicago Ridge police.

William Lee may be reached at
wlee@dailysouthtown.com
or (708) 633-6747.

Bail is not usually given for a murder. My god what has america become. If he gets bail he will never be tried. He will disappear into the criminal alien communities and more than likely receive citizeship when our government hands out amnesty.

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Originally Posted by Beckyal

Bail is not usually given for a murder. My god what has america become. If he gets bail he will never be tried. He will disappear into the criminal alien communities and more than likely receive citizeship when our government hands out amnesty.

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And sad as that if something could be,
i read yesturday a child molseter and a murder served out timeon the child porn charge and got bail on 10,ooo property bond his american girl friend put up her house
he cant be found

NO BAIL FOR SOON TO BE DEARLY DEPORTED CRIMINAL ALIENS

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Bail was set at $3 million this morning for a 31-year-old man whom authorities said fled to Mexico after fatally stabbing his girlfriend in her Chicago Ridge home.

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Genius, let's give bail to a murder suspect who has already fled to another country to escape justice. Does anyone realistically think that if he gets bail he won't do the exact same thing? Talk about flight risk, this scum is the epitome of the term flight risk.

I would say the Judge should be thrown off the bench!!
nothing will change until Judges are held accountable!!