Three weeks ago, late on a Monday night, Mike Ruckman Sr. got a phone call. The person on the other end of the phone wanted to come visit. Sure, come on over, Ruckman said. He wasn’t sleeping anyway.

Peter Ruckman, who police say shot his two sons to death, had been a professor of political science at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois Chris Harris has been a senior true crime reporter for ...

HARRISONBURG - He usually waits until after Thanksgiving, but this year Mike Ruckman had his Christmas tree up in his apartment a week before enjoying turkey and mashed potatoes. “It’s time to ...