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In the fall of 1987, O'Dubaine confided to his brother Kevin that he was tired of Suh's late night outings w/girlfriends and was about to break upw/her. Then, on October 6, 1987, Suh's mother was murdered. "He called me at work, and he was very upset, in tears," remembers O'Dubaine's mother, Margaret Nolan, a nursing supervisor who now lives in the western suburbs.
According to Nolan, O'Dubaine told police he had picked up Suh that morning at her family's house in West Peterson Park, and that they planned to go out for breakfast. They called Suh's mother at the dry cleaners to ask if she wanted them to bring her anything,Air Jordan 14 Black Red, but when no one answered the phone, O'Dubaine said, they decided to go to the shop. When they arrived, the police were already there. Elizabeth Suh had been stabbed 37 times,Air Jordan 3s For Sale, her throat slit.
Chicago police sergeant William Johnston, who led the investigation into O'Doubaine's death in 1993, characterizes Elizabeth's murder as "a temper thing. It was overkill," he says. By the time cops arrived at the Suh's house an hour later, the place was in a shambles, and Elizabeth's picture was overturned on the mantel-"the ultimate sign of disrespect for Asians," Johnston says. He now believes Suh trashed the house looking for the mother's life insurance policy.
Catherine insisted that she had been w/O'Dubaine at the time of the murder, but she remains the chief suspect in the unsolved case, Johnston says. Evanston police refuse to comment on the case.
Soon after Elizabeth's murder, O'Dubaine moved into the family house w/Catherine and Andrew. Neighbors immediately noticed a difference. "Their lifestyle changed dramatically," says the unidentified neighbor. "Both children began wearing nicer clothes, and they bought a brand-new Mercedes. We actually thought the boyfriend might have had something to do w/the murder, because the whole situation seemed so strange. She died, and then he moved in directly afterwards."
Margaret Nolan says that O'Dubaine, who was very protective of his younger siblings during childhood , had simply found a purpose in life-taking care of Suh and her brother. "I think he felt responsible for them," she says.
There was, however, the matter of money. Elizabeth had a life insurance policy worth around w/a total estate of according to Sergeant Johnston. Catherine managed to collect on the hefty policy w/out a problem, although the murder was unsolved.
"When Robby was 18, he always said he would be retired and driving a used Jaguar by the time he was 25," sayshis sister Carolyn Parise. "He never had any idea how he would get the money for this. I'm sure he never imagined it would kill him in the end."
Elizabeth's grisly death shocked the tight-knit Korean community in Chicago. "It was top news," recalls Chan Joung, a restaurateur and friend of the family who helped the elder Suhs get their jobs at the steel factory. But the community-100,000 strong here, w/its own groceries,tods shoes sale, churches, restaurants,and daily newspapers-had long been confounded by Catherine Suh, says Joung. At the Korean Catholic Church, where Joung is a member and the Suh family worshipped occasionally,paul smith france, members had been well aware of the squabbles about Catherine's dating Caucasian men. It wasn't long before rumors started circulating that she might have had a hand in her mother's murder.
"People saw them fighting," Joung says. "Most Korean parents are not comfortable w/their children dating Americans,Beats by dr dre pro. South Korea is a free country but they don't want their kids to be too free, going out and staying out late."
Joung, whom Suh liked to call "Uncle" remembers running into herat a now-defunct Korean-owned bank after her mother's death. She pulled up in her Mercedes, w/tinted windows. Mouths dropped. "Everybody look at her," Joung explains. "She look young but she has a Merecedes. She's wearing a nice dress, dark sunglasses. Korean girls are not like that. Korean girls are more traditional."
At that point, O'Dubaine was helping Suh manage her family finances. They briefly ran and then sold the dry-cleaning business. They hired a Polish maid who lived in the basement and smoked cigars. The two then began buying and rehabbing rundown prperties on the Near North Side. O'Dubaine did most of the work himself. Later, the couple bought a Glenview Nightclub, Club Metropolis, an enourmous place w/billiard tables and a stage for rock bands.
In 1991 they moved into a house on the 1600 block of North Hermitage Avenue in Bucktown. O'Dubaine added a sunken living room, a 35-foot glass atrium, a security system, and a backyard goldfish pond. Andrew-then a senior, an honor student, and president of the student council at Loyola Academy in Wilmette-moved in w/them,Air Jordan 1 Black Varsity Red.
Since the mother's murder, O'Dubaine and Catherine had been Andrew's de facto parents. He bought Andrew a used car, and she attended his parent-teacher conferences at school. But by 1993, Catherine and O'Dubaine had been dating for six years, and their relationship had cooled. Both had begun seeing other people, and they fought often. "Toward the end, through arguements and fights, she would get physical w/him," says his sister Kim Lewis. "Even in the beginning he would say, 'She tries to beat me up and I grab her by the wrists and shove her away.' Towards the end, she was pushing him. Did he strike her? Yeah, he struck her. One day she kept on himand he slapped her. He was crying afterwards."
In the August before Andrew's sophomore year at Providence College in Rhode Island, he and O'Dubaine argued and O'Dubaine ordered him out of the house. Around that time, O'Dubaine also told his sister Kim that he was going to break up w/Catherine.
