http://www.dailyherald.com/news/illinois_story.asp?intID=3841520"A white supremacist awaiting sentencing for soliciting the murder of Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow denied his supporters could be involved in the execution-style killings of her husband and mother, saying in a statement released Thursday, "I totally condemn it."
"There is no way that any supporter of mine could commit such a heinous crime," Matthew Hale said in the statement released by his mother after her weekly telephone call to him at Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Hale said "only an idiot" would think he ordered the killing, the statement said.
Police have said white supremacist groups are just one avenue of their investigation into the slayings. Authorities are analyzing several pieces of evidence from the home and neighborhood, including a broken window with a fingerprint, a bloody footprint and cigarette butts. They also released sketches Wednesday of two white men described as "persons of interest" who were seen near the Lefkow home the day of the killings."