Paul Modrowski Biography, Age, Salary, Chicken Massacre and Modrowski’s allegations, Prison blog, Appeals

Paul Modrowski Biography

Paul Modrowski is an American “serial killer” serving a life sentence for the murder of Dean Fawcett. From 2009 to 2015 Modrowski produced a prison blog titled “Paul Modrowski- On the Inside”, which was featured in a four-part series of episodes of the Reply All podcast in 2016.

Faraci and Modrowski were both tried for the murder of Dean Fawcett by two separate juries. The prosecution argued that the three men were involved in a check writing scheme and that Fawcett was murdered on the night of December 28, 1992, after threatening to come forward to police.

It is believed that Fawcett was shot in the head, then his body was dismembered in an effort to prevent identification – Fawcett’s head and missing limbs were never located. Both men were tried for the murder.

Officer John Robertson testified that Modrowski confessed to lending Faraci his car to carry out the murder. Modrowski denies this in his blog. Modrowski says that he was at the home of his sister the night Fawcett was murdered.

Modrowski also claims that his defense attorney William Von Hoene refused to dispute Robertson’s testimony and did not allow any witnesses to testify on his behalf (including Modrowski’s sister who reports that Modrowski was with her the night of the murder).

Van Hoene also did not reveal Modrowski’s diagnosis of autism to the jury. Modrowski has made allegations that this led jury members to mistake his awkward body language, lack of eye contact and aloofness as lack of remorse and proven guilt.

Rose Faraci admitted in court to lying to authorities in an attempt to direct blame away from her then-husband and towards Modrowkski and a friend. From 2009 to 2015 Modrowski produced a prison blog titled “Paul Modrowski- On the Inside”, which was featured in a four-part series of episodes of the Reply All podcast in 2016.

Paul Modrowski Age

Paul Modrowski is an American man serving a life sentence who was born on November 30, 1974. Modrowski is 44 years old as of 2018. Faraci, Modrowski, Fawcett and a few others allegedly took part in a check scheme, where they bounced checks against an account that had been opened with a minimal deposit. Faraci had a lengthy prior criminal record, which included prison time for charges of forgery and drug use.

Paul Modrowski Net worth | Paul Modrowski Salary

Paul Modrowski is an American “serial killer” serving a life sentence for the murder of Dean Fawcett and who has an estimated net worth of $3 million dollars as of 2019. Paul Modrowski earns a huge salary of $50,000.

Paul Modrowski Brown’s Chicken Massacre and Modrowski’s allegations

It was initially alleged that Modrowski was responsible for the Brown’s Chicken massacre, due to the proximity, timing and brutal nature of the two crimes. Although Modrowski was never charged in the Brown’s Chicken murders, he remained a prime suspect, until the arrest of Juan Luna and James Degorski in 2002.

Faraci and Modrowski were both tried for the murder of Dean Fawcett by two separate juries. The prosecution argued that the three men were involved in a check writing scheme and that Fawcett was murdered on the night of December 28, 1992, after threatening to come forward to police.

It is believed that Fawcett was shot in the head, then his body was dismembered in an effort to prevent identification – Fawcett’s head and missing limbs were never located. Both men were tried for the murder.

Officer John Robertson testified that Modrowski confessed to lending Faraci his car to carry out the murder. Modrowski denies this in his blog. Modrowski says that he was at the home of his sister the night Fawcett was murdered.

Modrowski also claims that his defense attorney William Von Hoene refused to dispute Robertson’s testimony and did not allow any witnesses to testify on his behalf (including Modrowski’s sister who reports that Modrowski was with her the night of the murder).

Van Hoene also did not reveal Modrowski’s diagnosis of autism to the jury. Modrowski has made allegations that this led jury members to mistake his awkward body language, lack of eye contact and aloofness as lack of remorse and proven guilt.

Rose Faraci admitted in court to lying to authorities in an attempt to direct blame away from her then-husband and towards Modrowkski and a friend. Modrowski and Faraci were tried at the same time in one Courtroom.

Each defendant had his own separate jury and each jury was brought in and out of the Courtroom based on the testimony that would be presented. The jury hearing the case against Faraci found him not guilty.

Faraci was later convicted in 2002 in an unrelated fraudulent check scheme and sentenced to 24 years in prison (in which he was released after serving 8 years). Two days later Modrowski’s jury found Modrowski guilty of murder, determining that his statements to police proved his accountability.

On April 27, 1995, Modrowski was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by Associate Cook County Judge Sam Amirante, who told Modrowski, “I am going to give you the same hope that you gave to (Fawcett): no hope. You deserve the term of natural life in prison.”

Paul Modrowski Prison blog

From 2009 to 2015, Modrowski produced a blog from prison by hand-writing letters which were published in blog format by his family. His blog described what daily life was like at Stateville Correctional Center and also provided readers further information about his case, arrest, and trial.

Modrowski has never seen the blog since his prison does not allow internet access. Since 2015 Modrowski is no longer publishing his blog. Modrowski alleges that this is due to his mother censoring the content of his writing before it was published.

Paul’s mother censored his blog and refused to point out that Paul was an atheist, and on the Reply All podcast, she confessed that she refused to have people know that Paul is an atheist for fear that other people would judge Paul because of his religious views. In late 2018, a new website dedicated to his case was launched, titled “Justice for Paul”.

Paul Modrowski Allegations

On January 18, 1993, a woman and her daughter discovered a human body missing its head, left arm and right hand, along the railroad tracks in Barrington, Illinois. Through a note found in the victim’s clothing containing two phone numbers, the corpse was identified as Dean Fawcett, who had gone missing in late December 1992.

A few days before Fawcett’s body was discovered, Modrowski and the Faracis had relocated to Clearwater, Florida; where they resided for two months, before returning to Illinois on March 1993. At this point, Modrowski ceased living with the Faracis and began residing with his grandparents in Southwestern Chicago, up until his arrest.

On April 22, 1993, Robert Faraci was arrested for the murder of Dean Fawcett. Afterward, Faraci and his then-wife alleged Modrowski committed the crime. They also named Modrowski as the perpetrator in the nearby Brown’s Chicken massacre, which had occurred on January 8, 1993.

Based on these accusations, members of the Palatine Task Force arrested Modrowski on April 28, 1993, charging him as a second suspect in the Dean Fawcett murder.

Paul Modrowski Appeals

Following his 1995 conviction, Modrowski exhausted all of his regular set of appeals without success. His appeals were filed without supporting documents or affidavits and his final appeal to the highest supreme court was filed one day late.

After exhausting his regular set of appeals, Modrowski filed five unsuccessful clemency petitions to the Governor of Illinois. He recently submitted his sixth clemency petition and is also seeking out a post-conviction appeal through legal counsel and the University of Illinois Innocence Project, in which he requests to have his DNA tested.

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Why should an autistic man spend the rest of his life in prison not for committing murder, but for supposedly lending his car to a person who was acquitted? That is unfortunately what has happened to Paul Modrowski, an 18-year-old man in 1993 when he was wrongly convicted of accountability to murder for supposedly lending his car to his friend, Robert Faraci.

Robert, (aka Bob Faraci) fabricated a story stating that his former friend Paul Modrowski went into a chicken restaurant on the night of January 8, 1993, and killed seven people. The News media went crazy with the idea and Mr. Modrowski became the primary suspect.

Paul was arrested on April 28, 1993, and immediately he was taken into questioning. Because Paul asked for an attorney upon being arrested, he was told he wasn’t going to have one during his interrogations. He was interrogated by two police officers, one officer was a Palatine police officer.

He interrogated Paul as part of the Palatine task force to find out in Paul was the person who killed 7 in the chicken restaurant after Robert Faraci implicated his autistic friend in the killings, even though Paul has never been to the town.

The other police officer, John Robertson, also part of the Palatine Task Force was sent by the state’s attorney’s office to interrogate Paul. During his interrogation Paul was taken into a room where the windows were boarded up and despite his repetitious request for a lawyer during his interrogation, he didn’t have one for the whole interrogation and since he was truly innocent, he never talked

The allegations of the abuse that Paul went through were proven to be true. However, Sam Amirante, the judge in the Barrington trial, said the questioning policies the palatine police department used were allowed, even though they broke laws because of the then unsolved massacre Paul was falsely accused of.

During the trial, Robertson’s testimony had no evidence of Paul’s confession, other than his testimony, so no official confession was obtained, other than handwritten notes, which were likely fabricated by the officers. The confession wasn’t signed and written until 3 weeks after the original interrogation, leaving room for lots of time to fabricate or alter a story.

Robert Farachi’s wife, confessed that her husband was the real murderer and Paul was simply a scapegoat, as Then, to make matters worse, Mr. Faraci again falsely claimed that Paul Modrowski killed his friend Dean Fawcett to get the prosecution off of his case.

Even though Farachi confessed to the crime, he was acquitted after “testifying” that he was really innocent. 10 years later after Paul’s arrest, the real perpetrators to the Palatine massacre were arrested and confessed to the crime.

John Robertson not only physically abused Paul and threatened him to confess and denied Paul access to an attorney, but John Robertson was the officer who made a false statement that Paul Modrowski confessed to giving his car to Robert Faraci, and said Faraci told Paul he wanted to kill Dean Fawcett and Paul lent him his car.

The worst thing is that during his trial, Paul was told by his attorney William Von Horne not to testify especially after Faraci was acquitted, but after Paul argued with the attorney, he threatened that he would leave his case if he testified!

Despite the threat, Paul still wanted to testify, but the attorney also convinced Paul’s family not to testify that Paul was with his sister and brother in law’s house on the night of December 28, 1992 when Dean Fawcett was murdered. Paul was home because it was his father’s birthday.

Paul’s attorney didn’t want to Paul to testify because since Faraci was acquitted, there was no reason to keep Paul on trial since the person Paul was accused of lending his car to had been found not guilty. His incompetent lawyer didn’t notify Paul’s jury of the diagnosis of his autism.

His lack of emotional expression, and lack of eye contact as a result of his autism, the strong bias against him due to the belief that he was responsible for the Brown’s Chicken Restaurant in Palatine, was all the Jury needed to convict him all without any DNA evidence using just a statement from his interrogating officer and false allegations from his friend.

Had the jury known of his autism diagnosis, they would have very likely not have convicted him. During his interrogation Paul was taken into a room where the windows were boarded up and despite his repetitious request for a lawyer during his interrogation, he didn’t have one for the whole interrogation and since he was truly innocent, he never talked.

Later when the judge who sentenced to paul to spent the rest of his natural life in prison found out that Paul was autistic, he said that he would have never sentenced him to life had he known that he was autistic.

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