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TezakContinued from Page A-1Floyd’s death might be traced back to him, according to testimony. “He didn’t just want him killed. He wanted the body completely destroyed, no trace,” Shannon said.Tezak eventually changed his mind about having Floyd killed but paid Shannon $1,000 for his aborted efforts in arranging the hit, Shannon said.Dan Webb, one of Tezak’s flock of defense lawyers, called Shannon’s story “preposterous.”Shannon will be cross-examined by defense attorneys when the hearing resumes.Shannon admitted to being a habitualcriminal. He is serving an 18-month sentence for being in possession of stolen mail.Tezak has pleaded guilty to hiring others to burn down an unprofitable Crest Hill bowling alley, which he owned, to col-lect insurance money.The former coroner also has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Nikki Leber, his ex-lover and former daughter-in-law, if she testified against him in court.Under the terms of a plea agreement, the government will drop charges that Tezak conspired to torch a Joliet building he owned that housed the Will County Private Industry Council, but Tezak admitted his guilt in that incident.That Joliet blaze was set, according to Tezak, to collect insurance money and to destroy records that were wanted by a federal grand jury in an investigation ofPIC.In other testimony heard Monday, widow Lisa Graczyk said then-Will County Coroner Tezak arranged to have her husband’s apparent suicide in 1979 declared an accident to allow her to collect insurance money. Tezak then demanded and was paid $5,000, she claimed.“That’s not right. He was an official,” Graczyk told the judge.
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Frankfort Star
Frankfort, Illinois, US
Thu, May 19, 1994
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