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Thursday, April 25
Bond has been denied for two women who lured two guys whom they talked to on a telephone dating chat line to their apartment -- where their boyfriends ordered them to strip at gunpoint as they taped their eyes and mouths shut and tied their arms with shoelaces. A firefight occurred Sunday night when one victim escaped and a boyfriend shot him in the street; an off-duty rail policeman witnessed it, then an off-duty Chicago police officer drove by and assisted. The women were charged with kidnapping and murder, and the other boyfriend is still at large. Apparently they had done it at least once before.