Overview
- Barklow, 68, was flown from Peru to Chicago on Friday and appeared in court Saturday, where a judge ordered him held without release.
- He is charged with first-degree murder in the 2004 shooting of Kent Projansky, and authorities also obtained a warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
- Modern testing by the Illinois State Police Crime Lab matched Barklow’s fingerprints and DNA to clothing and a .32-caliber revolver found in a duffel bag days after the killing.
- Detectives say Barklow lived across the street from Projansky at the time, and prosecutors alleged a connection to cannabis sales and large sums of cash during the detention hearing.
- After a 2019 arrest by U.S. Marshals, Barklow fled to Ecuador; investigators later learned he traveled to Peru, where U.S. and Peruvian agencies coordinated his detention and extradition.