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Attorneys claim Mokena woman’s 2017 death a suicide, not murder

County investigators search the Outlaws' clubhouse Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, after Kaitlyn Kearns, a 24-year-old bartender from Joliet, was found dead from a gunshot in a rural area of Kankakee County, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
County investigators search the Outlaws' clubhouse Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, after Kaitlyn Kearns, a 24-year-old bartender from Joliet, was found dead from a gunshot in a rural area of Kankakee County, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
A missing persons flyer hangs in the window of Marie Roche's window Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, after Kaitlyn Kearns, a 24-year-old bartender from Joliet, was found dead from a gunshot in a rural area of Kankakee County, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
Friends of Kaitlyn Kearns, a 24-year-old bartender from Joliet, cry Nov. 16, 2017, along East Washington Street as county investigators search the clubhouse belonging to the Outlaws in Joliet, Ill. Kearns' body was found Thursday in a rural area of Kankakee County, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
Felix Sarver

Felix Sarver

Felix Sarver covers crime and courts for The Herald-News