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Months after Chicago firefighters discovered a North Lawndale man dismembered inside his burning home, authorities have charged the man’s live-in caretaker with shooting the man to death, trying to cut his body into pieces and setting fire to the home they shared to conceal his killing.

In the days following Michael Lipford’s March 7 death, prosecutors alleged that the caretaker, DeParris Slaughter, searched the internet querying, among other things, whether death is painful and what the best knife was to cut through a human arm.

“I’d been praying for this for a long time,” said Evelyn Moss, a sibling of Lipford. “I thought it was going to be a cold case.”

Read the full story from the Tribune’s Caroline Kubzansky

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