Kept in Jail?

How does DuPage manage to keep violent offenders in custody?

• The 19-year-old Westmont man charged with murdering a 30-year-old pregnant woman in Downers Grove on Monday will remain in custody as he awaits trail.

  DuPage County Judge Joshua Dieden denied pretrial release for Nedas Revuckas during a hearing Thursday morning. Revuckas is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing Eliza Morales 70 times, mostly in the head and neck, and then setting her apartment on fire over an online sale gone wrong, according to prosecutors. Eliza, who was five months pregnant, leaves behind her husband and toddler, both of whom were not home at the time of the incident.

It's not like the offender was a habitual criminal:

• Revuckas has no prior criminal background, worked as a painter and complied with police. But Dieden said that if he was released and placed on home confinement, the entire community would be in danger.

But somehow, they managed to keep him in jail.

It's odd to say the least.