protection of the United States Marshals Service. On May 18, 2005, Judge Lefkow testified before the U.S. Congress on the problem of providing security for judges, placing some of the blame for the attack on her family on rhetoric against judges issued by persons such as Pat Robertson. Neo-Nazi radio host and FBI informant Hal Turner asserted that comments of his (which called for Lefkow's death) may have inspired the murders. Perpetrator On March 10, 2005, the Chicago Police Department and federal agents announced a possible break in the case. According to investigators, a van was stopped during a traffic stop in West Allis, Wisconsin, at 6:00p.m. on March 9. As West Allis police officer Rick Orlowski approached the vehicle, the driver, identified as 57-year-old Polish electrician Bart Allen Ross (born Bartilomiej Ciszewski), shot and killed himself. Later that night, a suicide note was found in the car, confessing to the murders of Lefkow's husband and mother, allegedly providing details about the crimes which would have been known only to the actual murderer. Ross had been a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case that Lefkow had dismissed. Investigators found over three hundred .22 caliber shells in the vehicle, casings of the same caliber that were found in the Lefkow home. DNA evidence from Ross allegedly matched the cigarette butt found in Lefkow's home. Ross sent a handwritten letter to WMAQ-TV describing breaking into the Lefkow home with a plan to kill the judge. Financially stable, with a house, prior to contracting a rare mouth cancer, Ross underwent multiple surgeries and treatments. These completely cured his cancer, but left him massively disfigured, in constant pain, financially wiped out with deep debt, and living in his van. His attempts to sue the medical system may have been intended to jump-start the remainder of his life, but with no actual case of wrongdoing, they were inevitably dismissed. References External links Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, splcenter.org; accessed November 18, 2014. 1944 births Living people Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton People from Nemaha County, Kansas United States magistrate judges Judges of the United States bankruptcy courts 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges 20th-century American women judges 21st-century American women judges