'Very emotional for everyone': On anniversary, Buffalo Grove chief recalls family murders

A little more than three weeks after becoming top cop in Buffalo Grove, Brian Budds and his department were thrust into the national spotlight the morning of Nov. 30, 2022. That’s when officers discovered something the new police chief could only describe as “horrific” — the slain bodies of a woman, her two young daughters and her mother-in-law by her estranged husband, who then took his own life.

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