Brian Dugan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Brian Dugan

serial killer

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1956

Place of Birth: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Profession: serial killer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Brian James Dugan (born September 23, 1956) is an American rapist and serial killer active between 1983 and 1985 in Chicago's western suburbs.
He was known for having informally confessed in 1985 to the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville, Illinois, which was a highly publicized case.
He was already in custody for two other rape/murders, one of an adult woman in 1984 and the other a female child in 1985.
He was sentenced to life after pleading guilty to the latter two crimes.
Rolando Cruz and Anthony Hernandez, both from Aurora, Illinois, had earlier been indicted in the Nicarico case and were convicted of Nicarico's murder in 1987 and sentenced to death.
After appeals and new trials, Hernandez was convicted a third time and sentenced to life in prison.
Cruz was acquitted in 1995 after a witness recanted testimony, and new DNA evidence was introduced excluding him from that found at the crime scene.
State charges against Hernandez were also dismissed that year and he was freed.
In 2000 these two and Stephen Buckley received a settlement for wrongful prosecution from DuPage County in 2000.
In 2005 Dugan was indicted for Nicarico's murder based on DNA evidence; he pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced to death.
After Illinois governor Patrick Quinn signed a new bill to abolish capital punishment in 2011, Dugan's sentence was commuted to life in prison.