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Obama has done it. Durbin has done it. Now Daley’s gonna do it. The “it” in question? Lobbying for alleged murderer Hans Peterson’s extradition to the United States. The story’s old hat by this point: Peterson supposedly confessed to killing dermatologist Dr. David Cornbleet last October in his office on Michigan Avenue. Unfortunately his confession fell on French ears, as Peterson had fled to the isle of St. Martin, where he invoked his Gallic heritage...

The French have spoken. Overseas officials have denied U.S. requests to extradite Hans Peterson back to the States to stand trial for the murder of Dr. David Cornbleet. The 29-year-old Peterson allegedly confessed to killing Cornbleet, his former dermatologist, due to a prescription drug that left him impotent. Despite pleas from U.S. senators Durbin and Obama, the French embassy returned a rejected verdict, with the explanation that they won’t sell out a French national. After...

After months upon months of pounding the pavement and posting in cyberspace, the Cornbleet family allegedly has their man. Dermatologist Dr. David Cornbleet was murdered last October in his Michigan Avenue office. Since then, his son Jon has worked seemingly ‘round the clock to track down his father’s killer. Taking a tip from an unspecified source, officials arrested Hans Peterson, 29, Aug. 6 on the French island of St. Martin. For the time being, Peterson...

Here are some other news items of note while we're at Millennium Park enjoying Muhal Richard Abrams and Reginald Robinson: The U.S. attorney's office has joined an ongoing Cook County probe into the rogue actions of an elite squad of the Chicago Police Department . Blue Line passengers can expect (more) delays starting this weekend. The sculptor who created Berwyn's spindle claims that the shopping plaza where it sits is "prostituting" the sculpture under...

The news broke late yesterday of an arrest in the case of Dr. David Cornbleet, the dermatologist who was murdered in his Loop office last October. Authorities filed a warrant for 29-year-old Hans R. Peterson, who was arrested August 6 on a federal fugitive warrant for unlawful flight on the French Caribbean island of St. Martin. After his arrest in St. Martin, Peterson, who lists his occupation as an "Internet gambler," allegedly confessed to the...

We were so sure it would lead to something, anything, but such is not the case. Once again we return to the case of Dr. David Cornbleet, the dermatologist heinously murdered in his office in October 2006. Last month we told you about the efforts of Dr. Cornbleet's son, Jon, to enhance surveillance footage taken of a "person of interest" in the case. Tapes from the downtown office building and a Lincoln Park Home Depot were shined up and distributed to the media, as well as posted on Jon's MySpace account. Things looked promising.

Back in October, we alerted you to the brutal murder of dermatologist Dr. David Cornbleet in his downtown office. In the midst of tying up the doctor and stabbing him to death, the would-be killer was captured on surveillance cameras entering and leaving the building at 30 N. Michigan. More information trickled out in the form of added security camera footage from a Lincoln Park Home Depot, showing a man making an odd purchase, in...

Up in the Great White North, a murder took place in a nightclub parking lot on Nov. 17. 22-year-old Ryan Milner was stabbed to death in Hamilton, Ontario, after a Sean Price hip-hop concert. Surveillance video from the club was checked out by local police, who were apparently at a loss. They then considered the demographic of the concert attendees and the fact that the assailant appeared to be a younger man. Their next move?...

What with all the disaster and drama associated with the Dexter Building fire on Tuesday, it was easy to overlook that a dermatologist was stabbed and killed downtown that same evening. Dr. David Cornbleet, 64, was in his 12th floor office at 30 N. Michigan around 5 o'clock, when an unidentified assailant came in, stabbed him more than two dozen times, then left. Cornbleet was found by his daughter around 8 p.m. that night after she became worried that he hadn't called her.