US professor kills boyfriend to fulfill sex fantasy
ILLINOIS (AP) — The fatal stabbing of a Chicago man was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chat room between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then themselves, prosecutors told a Cook County judge on Sunday at a bond hearing for the men.
An Illinois prosecutor shared disturbing new details about the July 27 slaying, describing to the court how hairstylist Trenton CornellDuranleau, the 26-year-old boyfriend of microbiology professor Wyndham Lathem, was stabbed 70 times at Lathem’s Chicago condo.
Lathem, 46, had been communicating for months before with British-based Andrew Warren, 56, about “carrying out their sexual fantasies of killing others and then themselves,” Natosha Toller, an assistant Cook County state’s lawyer, told the court.
Lathem picked Warren up at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport a few days before the killing, the prosecutor said.
On July 26, one day before the killing, Lathem booked a room for Warren near the condo, Toller said.
Cornell-Duranleau had been asleep in Lathem’s highrise Chicago condo when Lathem let Warren into the 10th-floor unit around 4:30 a.m. on July 27.
As Warren stood in a doorway, Lathem crept up to Cornell-Duranleau and began plunging a 15 cm drywall saw knife into his chest and neck, Toller said.
When Cornell-Duranleau awoke, he began screaming and fought back; Lathem yelled at Warren, asking him to help subdue Cornell-Duranleau, the prosecutor said.
Warren ran over to cover the victim’s mouth, then struck him in the head with a heavy lamp. As Lathem continued to stab the victim, Warren left the room and returned with two kitchen knives, Toller said.
Warren bent over CornellDuranleau and joined Lathem in stabbing him, the prosecutor said.
She said the victim’s last words were to Lathem: “Wyndham, what are you doing?”