Yorkville Mass Killer To Be Released Again

YORKVILLE, IL — A convicted mass murderer is set to be released from the Dixon Correctional Center — again. Carl Reimann, convicted of the 1972 murders of five people during a robbery, began parole Monday, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Reimann, 78, had been previously paroled in April 2018 after serving just shy of 45 years.

He was moved out of La Grange after school district officials raised concerns about the proximity of his new home — owned by local church members who had visited him in prison — to several schools and a park, according to Kendall County Now. So The Illinois Prison Review Board moved him to a fully furnished sober living house in Calumet City.

The Illinois Department of Corrections then agreed to move him again for similar reasons — that home too was a block away from an elementary school, a park and a recreation center.

Since Reimann was technically in violation of parole by living in these areas, he was sent back to the department of corrections.

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Though his parole has technically begun, he has not been released from the state's Board of Corrections yet, Kendall County Now reported. He is "still under supervision parole and will be for the foreseeable future," said Jason Sweat, spokesman for the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, according to the KCN report.

A condition of Reimann's parole is that he not enter Kendall County, according to the outlet.

Reimann's parole ends on June 18, 2039. He would be 98 years old.

The Murders

On the night of Dec. 29, 1972, Reimann and his accomplice and then-girlfriend, Betty Piche, made stops at two Plano bars before heading to the Pine Village, then situated at the corner of Route 47 and Route 34. Five people were inside the restaurant when the pair walked in, according to court documents. Once inside, Reimann pulled a gun and Piche proceeded to take money from the cash register.

During the robbery, a family walked into the Pine Village and were told that if they sat down they wouldn't be harmed, court documents note. But before Piche and Reimann left, Reimann "methodically, carefully and slowly shot and killed" the five people originally at the restaurant. The family was spared when Reimann ran out of ammunition.

The dead were Pine Village employees George T. Pashade, 74, of Aurora, John H. Wilson, 48, of North Aurora and Catherine M. Rekate, 16, of Plano; along with patrons Robert E. Loftus, 48, of Bristol and David M. Gardner, 35, of Yorkville.

In a twist of fate, Reimann's son, Matthew J. Reimann, would also become a convicted killer. The younger Reimann was sentenced to life under stricter laws for brutally murdering his neighbor, 41-year-old Sharon Rollins, in DeKalb 14 years after the Pine Village slayings. Matthew Reimann is in custody at Lawrence Correctional Center in Sumner, Illinois.