Donnie Rudd dies in prison: Ex-attorney was convicted of killing his wife in a staged car crash 45 years after her death

Donnie Rudd and Noreen Kumeta, pictured during their 1973 wedding. She would die in what was then believed a car crash less than a month later.

Rudd was an attorney and school board member in suburban Hoffman Estates in 1973 when his wife of less than a month, 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta, died from what police believed at the time were injuries from a car crash in Barrington Hills, with Rudd behind the wheel.Despite some of the unusual circumstances of the case — including that Rudd had been living with another woman and her children up until his wedding to Kumeta — Rudd remained a free man for four decades.

Later that year, Rudd was arrested in Texas and charged in his wife’s murder. He was convicted in 2018, despite his continued assertions of his innocence. Rudd’s former stepdaughter, Cindy Mulligan, said Friday she was still processing the news of his death. Mulligan’s late mother, Dianne Hart, married Rudd in 1974, months after Kumeta’s death.

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