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Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life Nearly Two Years After Cop Husband's Death
June 2, 2017 - Veteran Chicago Police Officer Dina Markham was found by a family member unresponsive in the bathtub on Sunday after ingesting pills.
Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life Nearly Two Years After Cop Husband's Death
June 2, 2017 - Veteran Chicago Police Officer Dina Markham was found by a family member unresponsive in the bathtub on Sunday after ingesting pills.
Chicago police recently sought the FBI's help in reinvestigating the apparent suicide nearly two years ago of a sergeant after officers raised concerns about how evidence was collected at the scene, a source told the Tribune. Then, over the Memorial Day weekend, the renewed probe took a stunning twist after the sergeant's wife, herself a veteran police officer, was found dead in the couple's same Northwest Side home, records show.
Dina Markham, 47, a 22-year veteran of the force, was found by a family member unresponsive in the bathtub on Sunday after ingesting pills, according to police. The Cook County medical examiner's office has not ruled yet on the cause of death, but a police spokesman said the case was being investigated as a suicide. The tragic turn of events came as the FBI, in an unusual move, was re-examining the September 2015 death of Markham's husband, Donald. He had apparently shot himself in the home in the city's Norwood Park community after a drunken argument with his wife, police reports show.
Dina Markham, left, and Donald Markham
The death was ruled a suicide at the time by the medical examiner's office. But the source said Superintendent Eddie Johnson sought the FBI's help after an officer had raised concerns about how evidence was handled at the scene. Johnson reviewed the case before deciding to contact the FBI. Documents obtained by the Tribune through an open records request show that Johnson's general counsel had been reviewing the Donald Markham case in February, when the Evidence and Recovered Property section sent records of evidence collected at the scene to the superintendent's office. The investigation was still ongoing as of Wednesday. The city's Inspector General's Office was also involved.
Police reports obtained by the Tribune show Dina Markham told police her husband, 51, had locked her out of their home the night of his death after the couple had been out drinking and argued after leaving a bar at about 1 a.m. She said she discovered her husband dead in their bed after one of her children let her in the house, the reports said. She said she then called 911. Her husband was pronounced dead at 3:34 a.m. at the house in the 5900 block of North Newark Avenue by a doctor from Presence Resurrection Medical Center, the records show.
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