Ill. murder registry tops 500

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SPRINGFIELD — Hundreds of murderers living in Illinois have entered their names and addresses on a new registry that went online in January.

According to the Illinois State Police, a total of 528 killers who have served their sentences and are back on the streets are registered on the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registry.

The 3-month-old registry is the product of a law approved by the General Assembly last year that is patterned after the state’s sex offender registry, which requires sex offenders to register with state authorities.

The legislation was named “Andrea’s Law” after Andrea Will, who was an 18-year-old student at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston when she was murdered in 1998 by a former boyfriend. Her mother, Patricia Rosenberg, said the website would give people the ability to know whether a convicted killer is living nearby

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