Naperville slayings: Boy stabbed 100 times, girl 50 times

Chicago Tribune ^ | November 1, 2012 | Christy Gutowski, Melissa Jenco and Vikki Ortiz Healy

[ConservativeStatement]

Bail was denied this morning for a Naperville woman accused of stabbing to death her young son and a 5-year-old girl she had been watching in a townhome in a quiet cul de sac.

Elzbieta M. Plackowska, 40, stabbed her son Justin 100 times and Olivia Dworakowski 50 times, prosecutors disclosed during the bond hearing.

[ConservativeStatement]

This is one messed up person.

[Slump Tester]

If only this poor tormented woman would have had free government contraception ...

Oh wait - the poor little girl was someone elses child. Nevermind.

[Thane_Banquo]

Looks like this happened a couple miles from my house. Naperville has a reputation for having almost no crime, so this is a major story.

[Boogieman]

There is something about Naperville that seems to make people want to kill their offspring. There is a story like this every few years out of that town. Maybe it’s the particle accelerator underground, bombarding their brains with cosmic radiation.

[Ignatz]

When you are brought believing that morality is relative and human life has no value in the womb, it may not take much for some to believe that it has no value outside the womb either.

[KC_Conspirator]

I grew up about 2 blocks away from this incident.

[proud American in Canada]

Oh my gosh—I grew up in Des Plaines, so I’m familiar with Naperville.

This is a horrible story. 100 times?? Uncontrollable rage and/or mental illness. How was she able to care for another parent’s child? Did she appear normal and then somehow snapped?

Very tragic, any way you look at it.

[mosesdapoet]

Very unusual. Slavic surnamed victims and perpetrator. Hope “The Trib” follows this up because it sounds like this was drug induced. If so; What was this woman taking ? So we get it off the market.

[soozla]

I grew up in Naperville of the 1950’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s. It is a town with a Mayberry mentality (and I mean that in a good way) but with growing pains and problems of any major metropolis. Life is very good for most Napervillians and they enjoy a multitude of amenities - affluent suburban life in close proximity to a city of world class proportions......how many kids can study the mummies of ancient Egypt and get on a bus for a field trip to a museum to view the real thing?? Many of the town's founding families have descendants still living and working there and the vision of “Hooterville”, when the population was 5,000 and a murder occurred once every 20 years, is hard for them.....me.....to give up.

[going hot]

Death by baseball bat, in the town square.

[going hot]

Death by baseball bat, in the town square.

[ne1410s]

....how many kids can study the mummies of ancient Egypt and get on a bus for a field trip to a museum to view the real thing??
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Or, they could simply go over to Naperville Central HS and visit “Butch”. NCHS has a peculiar claim to fame as the only high school to have their own mummy.

I have lived in Naperville since the late ‘80s. It is still as you describe it. I’m sure that the entire community grieves over this horrendous crime - it’s certainly hitting me hard.