Threatened judge finds bodies of husband and mother

A US judge, who was once the target of a failed murder plot by a white supremacist, returned to her Chicago home from work last night to find the bodies of her husband and mother.

Joan Lefkow stumbled across the bodies of lawyer Michael Lefkow, and Donna Humphrey, 89, who was visiting.

Police gave no indication whether the two deaths were related to Judge Lefkow’s involvement in the case of a white supremacist who was convicted last year of soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill her.

Michael Lefkow, 64, and Humphrey were each shot in the head. No weapon was found but police did recover two .22 calibre casings.

FBI spokesman Ross Rice confirmed that agents had been called in to help with the investigation.

Judge Lefkow received police protection after white supremacist Matthew Hale was arrested in 2003.

Prosecutors alleged that he was angry after Lefkow ruled that he could no longer use the name World Church of the Creator for his group because another organisation had a copyright on that name.

Hale, 33, is currently awaiting sentencing.