In the days leading up to his death, George Nellessen, of Arlington Heights, told people that he feared his troubled 19-year-old son might kill him, authorities said Monday.
His son, Mathew G. Nellessen, is charged in the slaying last week of the 55-year-old widowed tool-and-die maker.
Cook County prosecutor Maria McCarthy said Monday that the son organized the plot, recruiting three young
Chicago men also charged in the murder.
At a hearing in Rolling Meadows branch court Monday, she recounted how Mathew Nellessen forced his father to make out a personal check to him for $100,000 just before he repeatedly hit him in the head with a baseball bat and then stabbed him with a kitchen knife.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2011-04/60993856.jpg (broken link) Mathew Nellessen, 19, is charged with killing his father. (Arlington Heights police photo / April 18, 2011)
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