Biography of joe majczek

Polish-American men, framed for killing a Chicago police officer in 1932

Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz were two Polish-American men arrested and convicted of the murder of 57-year-old Chicago police officer William D.

Lundy^[1] on December 9, 1932.^[2] Initially, officials held 10 youths in custody on suspicion of killing the officer.^[3] Some 11½ years later in 1944, following the intervention of Chicago Times reporters John McPhaul^[4] and James McGuire, both men were exonerated of the crime.^[5] The real killers have never been identified.

The exoneration of Joseph M. Majczek, 11 years after he had been wrongfully convicted of the murder of Chicago Police Officer William D. Lundy.

Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz were two Polish-American men arrested and convicted of the murder of year-old Chicago police officer William D.

Majczek, who was.

Following his release from prison, Majczek worked as an insurance salesman and with Cook County Circuit Court in several Chicago suburbs.

Described by Life magazine in March , Joe Majczek was convicted in of killing a police officer in a “tavern holdup.

The details of the case formed the basis of the 1948 film Call Northside 777 starring James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, and Richard Conte.

Background

On October 10, 1944, a classified advertisement appeared in the Chicago Times: "$5,000 REWARD FOR KILLERS OF OFFICER LUNDY ON DEC.

9, 1932. CALL GRO 1758, 12-7 P.M." The ad was brought to the attentio