Attorney warns celebrities
CHICAGO - An inmate at a mental health center who allegedly wrote threatening letters to Olivia Newton-John and dozens of other celebrities could be ordered released at a court hearing next munth, his attorney said.
The possible release of Ralph Nau was enough to prompt prosecutor who handled his murder trial to write warning letters to 40 prominent women with whom Nau has allegedly hash imagined relationships.
Prominent anong Nau’s infatuations is actress singer Newton-John, said Randall Stewart, an assistantLake County state’s attorney. The prosecutor said Nau twire traveled to Australia in pursuit of Newton-John.
Attorneys at a hearing Wednesday worked out details on what evidence can be presented in Kane County Circual Court in August on Nau’s petition for release from Elgın Mental Health Center, Lake Counts Public Defender David Brodsky, who represented Nau at his murder trial, said the hearing could determine whether Nau is released.
Nou was acquitted in May of murdering his 8-year-old step-brother after the judge refused to allow a purported confession into evidence. Nau lived in Antioch, where the boy’s body was found.
Stewart said Nau confessed to killing his stepbrother in 1984 and that he wrote hundreds of letters, many of which are clearly threatening.