{"id":369538,"date":"2010-02-27T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/arrest-made-in-cold-case-murder-of-stock-boy"},"modified":"2010-02-27T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:15:29","slug":"arrest-made-in-cold-case-murder-of-stock-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/369538","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made In Cold-Case Murder of Stock Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOX LAKE\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 — Seven years after McHenry County teenager Brian Carrick vanished from a neighborhood grocery store, a former co-worker has been charged with murdering the 17-year-old stock boy and then disposing of his body, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nCarrick\u2019s one-time boss, 26-year-old Mario Casciaro, allegedly killed the teen while he worked at Val\u2019s Foods in far northwest suburban Johnsburg, McHenry County authorities announced late Friday.<\/p>\n

\nThe charges filed against Casciaro brought a measure of comfort to Carrick\u2019s father, who said he always believed that family members would see murder charges brought in the notorious case.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI think it was inevitable,\u201d Carrick\u2019s father, William, said of the charges, praising police and prosecutors for never halting their efforts to determine what happened to his son.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI knew they weren\u2019t going to quit and it was just going to be a matter of time,\u201d Carrick added. \u201cThis is the culmination of a lot of real, real hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nBrian Carrick disappeared on Dec. 20, 2002 when he left his Johnsburg home and walked across the street to Val\u2019s Foods.<\/p>\n

\nThe high school junior never returned home, but police later found traces of his blood–and signs of a disturbance–inside the store. His body, however, has never been found.<\/p>\n

\nBut throwing an unusual twist into the charges filed against Casciaro is the fact that he already has been tried and acquitted of perjury charges stemming from Carrick\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

\nThat 2009 acquittal didn\u2019t stop a McHenry County grand jury this week from indicting Casciaro on charges of first-degree murder and concealing a homicidal death. The indictment alleges that Carrick died after being struck in the head while he was at the store, authorities said.<\/p>\n

\nCasciaro was arrested Saturday in Fox Lake.<\/p>\n

\nCasciaro was charged in 2007 with perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury investigating Carrick\u2019s disappearance. A former acquaintance testified at his trial last year that Casciaro had admitted that he and another man had been involved in Carrick\u2019s disappearance. Casciaro, however, denied implicating himself in Carrick\u2019s disappearance and he ultimately was acquitted of the charges by a McHenry County judge.<\/p>\n

\nAuthorities wouldn\u2019t say Friday what prompted the indictment, but said they never lost hope of some day filing charges in the teen\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe\u2019re committed, regardless of the time, to pursue justice and bring closure to the family,\u2019\u2019 said McHenry County State\u2019s Attorney Louis Bianchi, who declined further comment on the case.<\/p>\n

\nCasciaro is jailed on $5 million bond. He is scheduled to appear Saturday in bond court in northwest suburban Woodstock on the charges, which could send him to prison for as long as 65 years.<\/p>\n

\nCarrick\u2019s mother, Therese \u201cTerry\u201d Carrick, died of cancer last November, still grieving over the disappearance of her son–one of her 14 children. But William Carrick said he believes his wife, always a devout Catholic, knows that murder charges finally have been filed in the case.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cShe\u2019s watching from the balcony,\u201d William Carrick said of his wife.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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