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In this episode of American Greed Lieutenant

Joseph Glenowitz is a small -town cop

gunned down in the line of duty.

It was real scary. Things like that don't happen in Fox Lake.

As police search for three suspects, the community mourns

the loss of a leader.

Everybody who knew Joe.

Just loved him and adored him.

There were tons of little kids holding signs with his picture on it. They

up to him as a hero. Everybody did.

But when the investigation hits a dead end, all eyes turned to the officer

himself and the youth group he runs.

It's supposed to develop the next generation of cops.

But has G .I. Joe, as he's known, lost his moral compass?

Is this hero merely enriching himself?

The lieutenant is a Jekyll and Hyde.

Who could have foretold that this was going to happen?

That he would hatch this kind of scheme?

And how far would he go to protect his image?

It's one thing to steal money. It's another thing to cheat on your wife.

It's another thing to try to kill somebody.

It's the morning of September 1st, 2015 in Fox Lake, Illinois.

Summer is winding down in this sleepy town on the outskirts of the Chicago

suburbs.

Lieutenant Joseph Glenowitz is driving into the Fox Lake Police Department to

start his daily shift.

A 30 -year veteran of the force, Lieutenant Joe is just a month away from

retirement.

But before he can make it into the office, at 7 .52 a .m., Glenowitz makes

detour.

He spots some suspicious men and wants to investigate.

The concrete plant is in the secluded part of town, a wooded area hidden

an industrial park and bordering a large swamp.

Three minutes after his initial call, Glenowitz radios in again.

Within

minutes,

backup officers are on the scene.

They find Joe's car parked on a gravel road, but there's no sign of the three

suspicious men or Lieutenant Glenowitz.

Officer's report that the scene is quiet.

The only sound is the wind rustling through the trees.

Suddenly...

A distant muffled gunshot breaks the silence.

Officers try to radio Lieutenant Glenowitz.

740, what's your location?

Fox Lake Unit 6740, checking your status.

There's no reply.

792 on location.

Try him on his cell phone, please.

Officers don't see any suspects or hear any more gunshots.

Fox Lake Unit's on honing, checking status on 6740.

Guns drawn, the cops head toward the swamp, where they think the gunshot came

from.

After a couple of minutes of searching, their worst fear is confirmed.

Joe Glenowitz is dead.

Officers say the lieutenant is found in the tall grass.

and his gun is missing from the holster.

He was face down, and when they turned him over, blood was coming from his

and nose.

Officers find Joe's pepper spray on a path off the gravel road.

It's been opened and used.

His nightstick lies just a few feet away from the mace.

It appears the lieutenant was in some kind of fight.

As for the three men that Joe was pursuing, they vanished without a trace.

It was a really frenzied sense that they thought they had a cop killer on the

loose. Phil Rogers is a reporter for NBC5 in Chicago.

We've got three suspects, we've got a description on them, and they must be

carrying the officer's weapon so they're armed.

Police officers swarm the village searching for the killers.

A perimeter is set up, roads are closed, and the community is put on high alert.

We're asking residents in the Fox Lake area to please be on the alert if they

see anything suspicious to dial 911 immediately.

My daughter came bursting in, and she's like, Mom, there's a killer on the

loose.

Ruth Hogan owns a jewelry store on Fox Lake's main drag.

And she's like, I just heard on the scanner that, you know, a policeman has

shot, and he's dead.

Fox Lake is a small town, just over 10 ,000 residents.

The shocking news spreads like wildfire.

My daughter was panic -stricken. I mean, I've never seen her like that.

She was yelling at me, we've got to lock the doors, we've got to lock the doors.

Within the hour...

The town is overrun by law enforcement.

When you shoot a police officer, that pushes the on switch, and it pours in

resources. It's an automatic response.

The manhunt was absolutely insane.

I've never seen that many police officers or even that many law

agencies in one small area.

More than 400 officers joined the hunt.

including state police, county sheriffs, U .S. Marshals, the ATF, and the FBI.

We are using many resources.

We're using numerous air units to search from above and look below. We're using

numerous canine units that are trying to sniff out and grab a hold of the scent

of the offenders.

It was like something out of Vietnam where a helicopter would land and a

guys would jump off and a couple guys would jump back on and the helicopter

would take off again.

I've never seen anything like it.

It was like a movie playing out right in front of you.

There was every cop car, every police officer from all over was showing up.

At first, Hogan doesn't know who the fallen officer is.

She frantically works the phones to find out any more information.

After two tension -filled hours, a friend tells her the news.

Her first words out of her mouth were, it's Joe.

And I couldn't believe it.

If anybody, it wouldn't be Joe.

And we all just sat and cried.

Ruth has been friends with Glenowitz for over 25 years.

She says the officer is well -known throughout the community.

Joe was a great guy.

He was friends with everybody.

Every town event, Joe was there, and Joe was there protecting everybody.

He was a cop's cop.

He was just this larger -than -life, I am the great American hero cop, and

he portrayed it every day.

Grunowitz cuts an imposing figure.

Many know him as G .I. Joe.

I mean, he drove around in a Humvee. He wore combat boots and fatigues most of

the time. That haircut, you had that jarhead haircut going on.

So he was really G .I. Joe.

Residents began pouring into the streets to show their support for the fallen

officer.

Tonight, not only did Fox League lose a family member, I lost a very dear

friend.

Our community is having a very difficult time.

Many residents remember him as someone deeply committed to Fox Lake, to the

profession, and his fellow officers.

Ruth and her daughters dutifully join in the public mourning.

Everybody was hugging each other, and we were all crying, and we all couldn't

believe that this was happening.

Fox Lake's a very close community.

It became a situation where the entire town needed to lean on one another for,

you know.

Comfort. A massive manhunt underway right now for the three suspects. The

manhunt makes national news.

Lieutenant Charles Joseph Glinowitz, gunned down. His alleged killer still on

the loose. We're all kind of hoping that something happens soon and they catch

these people.

I believe FoxLink had no idea how to handle it.

There's so much media and they're just this little town.

All of Chicagoland is on the lookout for the suspected cop killers.

But by late afternoon, despite the overwhelming police presence, the cops

haven't found any suspects.

At the very beginning, a lot of us were saying, you had a perimeter set up so

quickly, how could they have gotten away?

They know they're there because Glenowitz said they were there, and

dead.

So somebody must have shot it, but yet they couldn't find anybody.

The grapevine makes for a toxic environment.

Everybody that came through my doors at the jewelry store, you know, you

wondered, you questioned.

Everybody was pointing the finger at somebody else, saying that this person

it. There was never a time when I believe police did not get a tip from

saying that maybe you want to look at this person.

By nightfall, the manhunt is still in full force, but no arrests are ever

Residents waiting for any good news head home disappointed.

At any minute, we thought they were going to come over and tell us we caught

them, and it was going to be a celebration.

And when that didn't happen, it was scary.

I always sleep with a 9mm, and that night I had it under my pillow.

Next on American Greed, Fox Lake's hero gets a legendary send -off.

Thousands are expected to say goodbye to the popular cop many simply knew here

as G .I. Joe.

Throughout the years of 2014 and 2015, several high -profile police shootings

dominate the news.

American cities

like Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, and Chicago become battle zones.

The Black Lives Matter movement protests what they perceive as unfair treatment

by police.

In September 2015, some believe the murder of Lieutenant Joe Glenowitz is a

backlash.

Now, police are the targets.

Now, some of this is the current atmosphere and thinking that law

had been sincerely violated, and people got caught up in the fervor of that.

Yep, Blue Lives Matter.

And that's not just for Joe, that's for all our police officers.

They put their lives on the line every day.

Tammy Revet works in a sign shop in Fox Lake.

To show her support for Lieutenant Joe, she begins printing signs and stickers

to honor the fallen hero.

Myself, my husband, my other co -workers at the time walked around passing out

the stickers and signs.

We wanted people to have...

Thousands of signs blanket the community.

They were literally everywhere you looked.

We couldn't make them fast enough.

The signs helped build the legend of Lieutenant Joe.

Suddenly, you had this hero cop that everybody suddenly just

lionized.

We would run into people up there that said, well, I didn't really know him and

I'd really never heard of him. But what I've learned about him now, I'm really

impressed with.

The outpouring of grief is tremendous.

The night after Glinowitz's death, a candlelight vigil is held in his honor.

It was probably the saddest thing I'd ever been to.

There wasn't a dry eye there.

The outpouring of love for Joe was unbelievable.

We love you, Joe.

Glenowitz leaves behind a widow and four sons.

Joe was my best friend, my world, my hero, the love of my life for the last

1⁄2 years.

She brought her boys, and she was talking. That really got me.

You know, somebody's husband was taken, somebody's father was taken. That's the

real tragedy.

Joe's funeral is an overwhelming event.

Mourners pile into a local high school for the memorial service.

When we were growing up, we all knew Joe was a hero.

But now the nation knows he's a hero.

The funeral procession is witnessed by thousands.

Fellow officers travel from as far away as California and New York to pay their

respects.

This one was off the charts of the outpouring of support from the law

enforcement community from around the United States.

The governor of Illinois orders flags to be flown at half -mast.

Joe is memorialized at a Chicago Bears football game.

and honored on the floor of the U .S. Senate.

Lieutenant Glenowitz really made a difference in his life.

It is sad to lose him.

But while the community bonds over their fallen hero, there is still a sense of

danger in the air.

The police have yet to catch any suspects.

Then as the days had gone on and they still weren't finding him, then we

thought, okay, where were they?

Did they get into somebody's house?

That's when the police were going door to door on people's roof.

I mean, it was scary.

It was like wartime.

False calls are routine.

One woman says she spots the killers just outside of town.

Two people jumped out of a cornfield and tried to get into her car.

Turned out it wasn't them, and the story was completely made up.

One night I sat listening to the scanner as the helicopters were closing in on a

suspect, and then it was a deer.

I was like, no.

Next on American Greed, police finally get the clue they need.

A surveillance tape shows three men that match Joe's description.

I believe that the subjects are dangerous. They murdered a police

they're capable of doing anything.

To help crack the case of Lieutenant Joe Glenowich's death, The Lake County

Major Crimes Task Force descends on Fox Lake, Illinois.

Comprised of police officers from surrounding communities, they hold press

conferences nearly every day.

Two days after the crime, they publicly announce they found Joe's gun.

There were some questions asked about a weapon recovered yesterday.

I can confirm today that it was the officer's weapon that was recovered at

scene.

The gun is discovered in the weeds near the lieutenant's body.

The news contradicts earlier reports that the suspects made off with the

weapon. His gun was taken.

Where did his gun go?

Then all of a sudden, oh, well, they found it in the bushes.

Then they found it next to him.

We had no idea what to believe.

Dr. Thomas Rudd is the Lake County coroner.

He says foreign DNA is discovered on the weapon, but it's inconclusive.

The only DNA that was in the officers was at the base of the clip, but it

in the DNA registry of criminals in this country.

Investigators get one of their best leads when they locate surveillance

from homes and businesses in the vicinity of the crime scene.

I think we're optimistic about all of these videos right now because there are

different cameras that are putting a storyline together.

The cameras allegedly capture images of the men that match the lieutenant's

description.

But the excitement is short -lived.

In the following days, those men are located and questioned by police.

They're local day workers, and they have a solid alibi.

They were eating breakfast when Lenowitz was killed.

It turns out the three people were not the people that were involved in this.

One of them had a receipt with a time stamp on it showing that they were in a

different location.

Despite early dead ends, the investigation finally makes inroads when

force examines Glenowitz himself.

Lieutenant Joe is the leader of the Fox Lake Explorers, a Boy Scout offshoot

that teaches teens the basics of law enforcement.

The community of Fox Lake Club Explorers, I mean, it was a bunch of

were learning how to become police officers.

The Explorers meet weekly at the old Lions Club building in downtown Fox

Each week was different, so like one week we would have a classroom portion.

Like one of them could have been about gun safety or how to clear a room,

officer safety, traffic stops, anything like that.

Jennifer Anderson is a former Explorer.

She's also the former girlfriend of Joe's son, DJ.

She says Lieutenant Joe is nothing less than an ideal role model.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and Joe kind of filled the dad void that I

needed. He was like that with a lot of Explorers. It wasn't just me.

She says Joe is strict but dedicated to the teens he works with.

We started the demolition three months ago.

We trained and we trained hard.

That speaks volumes about you guys.

He really wanted to get kids in the neighborhood that were on drugs or

in trouble.

He wanted to change people's lives.

But Joe has a unique way of running the Explorers.

The former army sergeant places heavy emphasis on military techniques.

Keep going. There you go.

Explorers are trained in SWAT tactics.

He had effectively created this sort of militia.

Police, come on up!

Police, come on up!

Big boy boys!

And observers of that say that it was just going off in weird tangents.

Imagine that in an 8 by 10 room, folks. What was the delay on that? That is

flipping loud.

Far more extreme than it needed to.

Rather than just exposing kids to law enforcement, this was flak jacket, SWAT

team helmet wearing.

Very extreme.

The military gear comes courtesy of the government program known as LESO, the

Law Enforcement Support Office.

The program is designed to divert surplus military gear to local police

departments.

The LASSO program thinks it's sending this stuff to the Fox Lake Police. The

Lake Police never saw it.

Investigators say Glenowitz often forges the police chief's signature to obtain

the gear.

He was obtaining ridiculous amounts of materials.

Helmets, flak jackets, radios, body armor, you name it, he

was getting it.

We went into that basement and found boxes and boxes of stuff that it looked

us like it had never even been opened. And the question is, what was he going

do with it?

As for the Explorer's operating budget, the group is swimming in cash.

From 2008 to 2015, more than $250 ,000 passes through the program.

Boy Scout programs, scouting programs, always operate on a shoestring, but this

one was getting a lot of money and was operating at a much higher level. So Joe

would go out and raise money, and every year businesses would write a $500 check

to the Explorers.

And it just, I mean, it just continued on for years and years and years.

Next on American Greed.

Joe's pint -sized police force faces an uncertain future.

Glenowitz had operated largely unnoticed and unmonitored for years.

Suddenly, he had someone for the first time asking questions.

For nearly 30 years, Lieutenant Joe Glenowitz appears to be a model officer.

But after his death, investigators dive into his official police file and find a

much different story.

I was absolutely shocked by it. There was many, many things were being said in

there and many complaints about Joe that none of us ever knew.

Joe is suspended at least five times in his career and is accused of violating

numerous rules and regulations.

He used his squad car for an out -of -state vacation.

He allowed friends to use the village gas pumps.

He once got in an argument with a police dispatcher, and she says he threatened

to put, quote, three bullets in my chest.

If you go back and you look at the personnel file, you, especially in the

years, don't see a lot of examples of amazing law enforcement feats.

The file also contained a letter written to the mayor in 2009 by a group of

anonymous Fox Lake cops.

The officers complain about the lieutenant's appalling behavior.

They said that he was conducting himself in a manner that was not befitting of a

police officer, that he was drinking at all hours in bars.

He was known to go out at night and get rip -roaringly drunk. He was found once

passed out in his truck with his foot on the gas pedal and revving the car up

when they found him.

The officers say Joe groped women's breasts at Christmas parties and had an

inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate.

He was kind of a serial fornicator. He pressured, I know, one officer into

sexual favors, one female officer.

He was known to have many a mistress within the town.

It was far from the image of this G .I. Joe character that he had cultivated to

the public.

These were allegations of sexual impropriety, of debauchery in public.

In addition to Joe's behavior at the police department, investigators

there's trouble at the Explorer's post.

What they found was that there were some financial issues that were going on.

There was missing money from the Fox Lake Police Explorer unit.

Bank records show Glenowitz uses Explorer funds for his own personal

He spends the cash on dinners, vitamin supplements, gem memberships, and porn.

Some of the allegations are almost comical.

Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, movie tickets, clothing, adult website.

Dating life.

The biggest expenses are a nearly $8 ,000 trip to Hawaii and a $15 ,000

loan payment.

Over a seven -year period, investigators officially say Joe's theft reaches five

digits. Sources tell American Greed that the total could be as much as $80 ,000.

He had nothing to show for it.

It's not like he went out and bought an 80 -inch TV or something. Like, it was,

you wouldn't even tell.

I don't think to this day anybody alleges that he was getting rich off of

There was just a suggestion that there was improper use of the phone.

The FBI recovers text messages from Glinowich's cell phone.

They learn that in 2014, a change at City Hall threatens Joe's cash flow.

Fox Lake brings in a new administrator, Ann Maron, to manage the village

expenses.

Marin requests audits of various departments, including the police and

Lake Explorers.

Ann Marin had done something very simple. She had called him in and said,

to see some accounting for the equipment and for the funds.

Not a radical thing to say at all.

Joe sends numerous texts to friends and family.

Investigators say the texts from this period show that Joe is in a panic.

Joe Glenowitz, in the text messages, makes clear that he is no friend of Ann

Mirren and, in fact, sees her as a big, big threat.

One message reads, she hates me, and I've never said more than three

to her the year she's been here. If she gets a hold of the old checking account,

I'm pretty wealthy.

In another text message, Joe is worried about money he loaned to his son. He was

asking for money from his son to... Pay back the Explorer account or you would

be visiting me in prison.

As Joe's paranoia grows, investigators say he considers extreme solutions to

problems. Texts show he contemplates arresting Ann Marin for a DUI and

possibly... planting things on her. When the task force searched the

lieutenant's office in a desk drawer, they located a small quantity of

So the question is, is it mishandling of evidence, or was there another

intention with it?

Another text shows Joe wants to hire a hitman. Lieutenant Glenowitz had reached

out to a third party, and the tone of those text messages was to contact a

-level motorcycle gang member.

They were going to kill the administrator of Fox Lake and dump her

Volo Bog, and they were going to plant a large bag of cocaine on her to make it

look like a drug deal gone bad.

The Volo Bog is a dense and secluded wetland just south of Fox Lake.

Anne Maron has no idea what she's unleashed.

It's amazing that Celtic Soul Routine kind of set this whole thing in motion.

It's one thing to steal money.

Okay, it's another thing to cheat on your wife.

It's another thing to try to kill somebody.

Next on American Greed, G .I. Joe finally decides on a solution to his

problems.

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On November 4th, 2015, two long months after Lieutenant Joe's death,

the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force has finally come to a conclusion.

Residents are hopeful the police have made a breakthrough.

Did they finally catch the killers?

Unfortunately, the task force has much different news.

This extensive investigation has concluded with an overwhelming amount of

evidence.

that Glenowitz's death was a carefully staged suicide.

We have determined this staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal

acts that Glenowitz had been committing.

Investigators say the proof lies in the lieutenant's bank records and more than

6 ,500 pages of text messages.

There are no winners here.

Glenowitz committed the ultimate betrayal.

to the citizens he served, and the entire law enforcement community.

Ann Marin is stunned to learn of her role in the drama and that she was a

target.

It's a very scary thought that an officer who is sworn to uphold the law

even attempt to think to do something like that to an administrator.

The criminal accusations devastate the community.

Joe's friends have trouble processing the news.

Dad is not the guy I knew. You're just like, where the hell did that come from?

That's kind of, like, really crazy.

Our heads were spinning.

What do you believe?

They got it wrong.

They had to have gotten it wrong.

They need to do some more investigating.

That's your thought.

Many refused to believe the official line.

I'm not denying he didn't take money. Of course he took the money.

Proof is there.

Would Joe have killed himself over it? Not a chance.

He wouldn't leave his boys.

He wouldn't do that.

Joe's supporters want to believe anything other than the task force

There's still a lot of people out there who believe that, you know, it's

conspiracy theory and, you know, cops are hiding something and all this other

stuff. Maybe he was assassinated.

Maybe he was killed by his fellow officers.

Maybe he was killed by some folks he put in jail and they were seeking revenge.

All of those scenarios were being floated.

But suicide has been one of the leading theories since that fateful day.

Police reports show that one of the first responders immediately suspected

suicide.

Former explorer Jennifer Anderson says just hours after the incident, friends

the police force quietly told her Joe killed himself.

So that was really hard to keep my mouth shut because at that point, I really

wasn't supposed to know. Nobody really was supposed to know except the people

involved in the investigation.

But if suicide was so strongly suspected, why did the investigation

long? And why did police allow the manhunt to continue?

The first day of the search alone cost over $200 ,000 in police resources.

The final cost is likely close to $1 million in total manpower.

The coroner has his suspicions.

Law enforcement tried to cover up a suicide and make a dirty cop a hero.

This is just my thoughts. I can't prove it.

The task force disputes this accusation.

According to the group's commander, thorough police work takes time,

in a case involving the death of a fellow officer.

We don't jump to conclusions or assumptions based on the information

had. We proceeded as this was a homicide.

By creating a smoke screen, Linowitz successfully delays the exposure of his

criminal deeds.

He could have just killed himself, okay? But instead, he went to so much trouble

to make it look like a crime so that they would investigate it.

I'm sure, in many ways, he felt that if he was gunned down in the line of duty

and received a giant funeral. And, you know, that's the way he wanted to go

Commander Falinko says suicide didn't become a viable theory until

retrieved the text messages from Joe's phone nearly six weeks after his death.

We had no indication that there was any type of financial issues whatsoever

until we started getting those text messages and then putting all the pieces

together.

He went from hero to zero based on his actions.

Next on American Greed, a return to the swamp to piece together Joe Glinovich's

final moments. The thing that was shocking was when we lifted the vest and

thought, how does this happen if this is a homicide?

After the task force announcement, the death of Joe Glinowitz appears to raise

more questions than answers.

One of the biggest mysteries is that Joe's body shows he was actually shot

times.

The one thing that always bothered me throughout the entire investigation was

when you're committing a suicide, you don't shoot yourself twice.

But investigators believe Joe did indeed shoot himself twice that day.

Lake County Coroner Tom Rudd walks us through the crime scene.

The first piece of evidence is the setting itself.

It's an area that the lieutenant was very familiar with.

This is where G .I. Joe educated and trained his explorers to look for people

and to do various tactical exercises.

G .I. Joe knows this area like the back of his hand.

The coroner says Lenowitz parks his car and walks to the woods at the edge of

the swamp.

And at this point, he activates his mace.

He pops it, shoots it, and then drops it.

Then he goes down this way into the brush, and around here, he drops

his baton.

He knew that he had to essentially take them off the scent, so what did he do?

He created a sign of a struggle.

After setting the scene, the coroner says Joe draws his gun and pointed at

lower right abdomen.

He fires a shot into his bulletproof vest on the right side. It penetrates

vest and goes in, but does not hit or break the skin.

It does cause a bruising.

Investigators say the shot is the equivalent of being hit with a

But Gunowitz is in remarkable shape for his age and endures the pain.

He's going to go down. He's going to be woozy. He's going to take at least three

to five minutes to recoup from that shot.

After regaining his composure, he then makes the initial radio call.

By the time officers are on the scene, the coroner says Glenowitz is deep into

the swamp and prepared to fire the second shot.

He takes his gun, sticks it under his vest to about two to three inches, aims

in the heart, major vessel region, shoots himself, hits the pulmonary

He's drowning in his own blood, but he's still conscious.

So he can toss the gun several feet away and fall forward and die.

The coroner says Joe's uniform and vest are still roll -call tight, and his body

shows no signs of a struggle.

There were no defensive wounds on him whatsoever.

In other words, he wasn't fighting to try to prevent somebody from putting a

under his vest and shooting him.

First responders report hearing the fatal shot, but specifically say they

hear any other noises, nor do they see any paths through the thick swamp grass.

If somebody had shot him, where were they? What noise were they making? This

very, very thick brush. You're going to hear crunching and cracking, and

especially if you try to move fast to do a getaway.

As for the three suspects mentioned in the radio call, the coroner believes

Lenowitz spotted them on the street that morning.

He knows that there were these three day workers.

that walked by this area. So when he made the call in, he knew there would be

somebody here that they could pursue.

He had gone to so much trouble, and all of this was because he knew what the

response would be.

His plan worked perfectly.

As for the foreign DNA found on Joe's gun, it could belong to anyone.

They have since learned that Glenowitz liked to give it to people to hold, show

it off.

you know hey you want to hold my gun and that it's very very possible that that

was where the dna came from but why go through all this trouble of staging a

homicide scene joe's ego is likely the biggest culprit you have a person who

loved being a cop and loved the persona that he created in the village of fox

lake and should he be charged with crimes for embezzlement i think it would

really hurt him

His pension may have also played a role.

At the time of his death, Venowitz makes over $90 ,000 a year.

Suicide would severely affect his family's benefits.

If he was killed on the line of duty, his family would receive 100 % of his

pension. But if he kills himself, he's still eligible for 75 % of his pension.

G .I. Joe's secret life rocks Fox Lake.

My gosh, G .I. Joe went from a hero to a criminal.

The signs once honoring the town's hero become objects of scorn.

People destroying signs, writing loser and traitor.

He was the most horrific person you could ever imagine.

A couple days prior, he's the best person you've ever met in your life.

You know, how can people do that?

Some people kept the signs up just so that they could demonstrate that kind of

anger, which I thought was extraordinary.

It just showed the extent to which they felt that they had been had and that

they had been duped.

Conspiracy theories surrounding Joe's death still float around Fox Lake to

day. But many residents have made their peace.

I knew Joe as a good guy, as a protector, as a man who led the Explorer

That's the Joe I want to remember.

I wish I could have just talked to him and asked him why.

I wish we had more answers before he did what he did.

That's, I think, what kind of makes us mad. He just kind of, like, left us.

The legacy of Lieutenant Joe Glinowitz has left a permanent scar on this once

quiet community.

Anything now that happens in our town, oh, there's Fox Lake again on the news.

That is what we're known for.

I think you've got people that are embarrassed that they feel like they

had. And boy,

do I ever sympathize with those folks because they were had. They were

completely deceived and betrayed.