Dan Tondevold and Chad Johnson?

[Big3sCompanyFan]

Was there ever any resolution to either of these cases? It's been so long that if they haven't resolved them by now then it doesn't look promising.

You know Tondevold was the guy who lived with that rich old southern lady and then secretly looted her accounts that supposedly showed up dead in a suicide but it was rumored that he found a body double and killed him to make it look like he committed suicide. Did they ever find out what really happened?

Chad Johnson (last name?) was the kid who was from Wisconsin who went to the seedy south side of Chicago for a purported narcotics deal that went bad and he was found dead in a car in close garage from carbon monoxide poisoning. Did they ever catch his killers and find out what really happened?

Both of these case were on today's 3 AM Central showing of UM on LRW.

[justins5256]

Originally Posted by Big3sCompanyFan

Was there ever any resolution to either of these cases? It's been so long that if they haven't resolved them by now then it doesn't look promising.

You know Tondevold was the guy who lived with that rich old southern lady and then secretly looted her accounts that supposedly showed up dead in a suicide but it was rumored that he found a body double and killed him to make it look like he committed suicide. Did they ever find out what really happened?

Chad Johnson (last name?) was the kid who was from Wisconsin who went to the seedy south side of Chicago for a purported narcotics deal that went bad and he was found dead in a car in close garage from carbon monoxide poisoning. Did they ever catch his killers and find out what really happened?

Both of these case were on today's 3 AM Central showing of UM on LRW.

Chad Maurer.

[mozartpc27]

I went a-searchin' for stuff about Chad Maurer, and the first artilce I found was this. In the article, this little detail which is not mentioned in the UM segment is briefly given:

Chad's memory is kept alive at Rockford, too. Every year, the track holds a memorial race in his honor. The plaques have a photo of him racing. The early ones also carried a logo that friends designed in his honor after his death: a cross-boned smiley face, with pencil-thin X for eyes and a C attached to the top of the head. Chad's friends tagged it all over the East Side of Madison after his death. The cops mistakenly thought it was a gang thing.

Now, I don't want to go assuming things about people based on the behavior of their friends, but this strikes me as a little odd. The article itself describes what his friends did as "tagging" which is the polite word for "illegally spraypainting," and the logo, as described, is more than a little disturbing. If these are the types of things his friends would do as tribute, it becomes a little easier to understand how a "nice boy" like Chad was found on Chicago's south side. This is not to say that everyone who makes graffitti is necessarily a drug dealer, far from it.

But, as they say, where there's smoke, there's fire, and the fact that he turned up dead under suspiscious circumstances and had friends who evidently were attracted to elements of street culture lends credence to the idea that he may have been more heavily involved with that culture than people suspected...

It's always been clear from the segment that Chad must have been involved in something more dangerous than his parents suspected, of course.