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On June 13, 1988, more than six years after Alan reported his wife missing, Keating, Corbitt and Alan were arrested on charges of first-degree murder. Following trials that included a lot of finger-pointing and self-serving half-truths, all three men were found guilty.
Alan Masters, 65, a southwest suburban lawyer whose 1989 trial for plotting his wife’s murder exposed widespread corruption and spawned a television mini-series, died Monday, Oct. 9, in the...
In 1989 Corbett was convicted of conspiracy in plotting the death of Dianne Masters, the wife of Alan Masters, an attorney with ties to the Chicago mafia. Corbett received a sentence of 20 years. He was released from prison in 1998, two years early, after helping the FBI solve several mob-related crimes.
The investigation into the 1982 murder, rebooted after a separate federal investigation uncovered new evidence, found that Masters’ killing was covered up by sheriff’s Lt. James Keating, Willow Springs Police Chief Michael Corbitt and Dianne Masters’ husband, Alan.
UPDATED: August 20, 2021 at 11:03 a.m. Before he died last year in prison, corrupt south suburban lawyer Alan Masters acknowledged for the first time that he masterminded his wife’s mysterious...
An enraged Alan Masters listened to a secretly recorded conversation between his wife and her boyfriend in February, 1982, and promptly vowed to have the woman killed, a key prosecution witness...
With the assistance of Randall Turner, the brother who was convinced that Alan Masters was responsible for his sister's murder, the Gibsons give an absorbing, chronological account of Dianne Masters's death and the subsequent trial of her husband. A great addition to true-crime collections.
