Bahaa Sam beat his wife with a weightlifting curling bar as their 4-year-old son watched, Will County prosecutors claimed at the Tinley Park man's hearing. Sam is charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $5 million bail.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
UPDATED: 7:27 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20 A Tinley Park man beat his wife with a weightlifting curling bar Wednesday as their 4-year-old son watched, Will County prosecutors said Thursday at a hearing for the 47-year-old man. Bahaa A. Sam was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Nermeen Gamal Sam, 38. An autopsy report stated she was hit in the head more than 10 times. Bahaa Sam is being held on a $5 million bail. READ: Husband Charged With Murder in Wife's Death in Brookside Glen If Sam posts bond, which is $500,000, he must turn in his American and Egyptian passports to the Will County Sheriff's Office. His next court date is Jan. 11. "If he walks out those jail doors, I want those passports," said Judge Roger Rickmon. …
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Bahaa A. Sam, 47, faces first degree murder in the death of his wife, Nermeen Gamal Sam, 38, according to police. The husband has a history of domestic battery charges, court records show.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tinley Park resident Bahaa A. Sam, 47, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife, Nermeen Gamal Sam, 38, according to police. Nermeen Sam had been beaten Wednesday by a blunt object, and her body was found outside her home in the 19700 block of Silverside Drive, near a neighbor's yard, said Tinley Park Police Chief Steve Neubauer. READ: Son to Cops: 'Daddy Killed My Mommy' Police responded at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, to an ambulance call to the home, a police press release stated. A public works employee had spotted Nermeen Sam's body next to a tree outside and called 911, Neubauer said. Bahaa Sam was immediately taken into custody, the release stated. He was charged Wednesday night and booked in to …
lynie
4:44 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
I can't believe someone can be so violent to a woman he loved and chose to marry. Also, to think that this has been going on for so long. God will heal those injured but can't bring there mother back. God help this world in which we live and help us follow Jesus who teaches us how to love one another. more ›