CHICAGO -- The last of four men linked by police to the rape, ritual torture and murders of as many as 20 Chicago-area women has been sentenced to 70 years in prison in the slaying of a 21-year-old secretary.
Thomas Kokoraleis, 26, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to the May 1982 abduction, rape and mutilation murder of Lorraine Borowski, 21, said DuPage County assistant state's attorney Brian Telander.
Kokoraleis follows to prison three friends sentenced in a series of slayings believed to have been committed by the group of alleged devil worshipers.
Authorities suspect Kokoraleis, along with his brother Andrew, 23, Edward Spreitzer, 26, and Robin Gecht, 33, all of Chicago, may have been involved in as many as 20 murders of women on the North Side and in the western suburbs of the city between May 1981 and September 1982.
Police have said the men abducted, sexually abused and mutilated the women and used parts of their bodies in satanic rituals. Most of the victims were found with one or both breasts hacked off, police said.
After Gecht was arrested for the rape, abduction and attempted murder of an 18-year-old Chicago prostitute, authorities discovered evidence of santanic rituals in the attic of his Chicago home.
The body of Borowski, of suburban Elmhurst, was found five months after her death in a shallow grave in Clarendon Hills Cemetery, Telander said.
It took until now to sentence Kokoraleis because an 1984 conviction was overturned by the Illinois Appellate Court.
In April, Andrew Kokoraleis was sentenced to death for Borowski's murder and was sentenced to life in prison for another murder.
Gecht was sentenced to 120 years in prison for an attack on an alleged prostituted.
Spreitzer was sentenced to death and six life sentences for his part in at least five murders.
