Psycho Pleads Guilty

In the interest in Officer Safety, we'll quote extensively from the article so that members can take appropriate measures to protect themselves and loved ones:

• It’s been a mystery for more than five years.
  
  Who threatened to avenge the police shooting of a wild cougar in Chicago by torching Mayor Richard M. Daley’s vacation home? For more than five years after Chicago Police shot dead the big cat as it prowled the streets of Roscoe Village, it remained a riddle.
  
  But on Thursday in federal court, a lanky Southwest side botanist finally admitted he was behind the sick 2008 letter to Daley that included the line “F - - - your dead son.”

Is he an arsonist,too?

• Under a plea deal that leaves unresolved who actually lit an April 24, 2008 fire that spared Mayor Daley’s Michigan lakefront retreat, but destroyed a neighbor’s multimillion-dollar home, Rich Hyerczyk, 54, admitted he’d mailed an anonymous letter just three days earlier in which he vowed to “BURN down the Daley house in Michigan.”
  
  Hyerczyk, of the 5200 block of South Natoma, told U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman he was guilty of mailing a letter threatening that police should “Prepare to DIE like the Cougar you killed.”
  
  And he admitted he’d written 90 threatening letters since 2003 to schools, police, religious institutions and officials, including Daley.

Dude has problems. And it's not just elected officials and cops he's threatened:

• A week later Hyerczyk mailed multiple copies of a letter in which he said he’d kill “PIGS” at the annual St. Jude Memorial march, and made threats against police officers “wives” and “children.”

Our wives and children,too. And of course, he's a loner with no friends and gets along with fungi:

• The ugly language in Hyerczyk’s letters contrasted with the round-shouldered, gray-haired man who spoke in a meek voice to declare himself “guilty” Thursday, then fled the courthouse without comment.
  
  The unmarried St. Xavier University grad, who has just one Facebook friend, works at a La Grange Park moulding company and has an interest in lichen that led him to found the Chicago Lichenological Society, records show.

Remember, that's Rich Hyerczyk, who pled guilty to threatening your wives and children. Be aware Officers.