Police

Arrest in Lily Burk killing

By Kevin Roderick | July 27, 2009 9:04 AM

Police announced that a 50-year-old man named Charlie Samuel has been booked on suspicion of murder in Friday's killing of 17-year-old Lily Burk. A press conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. Sources tell the Times that Burk was apparently abducted near the Southwestern University School of Law, where she went to pick up some papers for her mother.

Previously: Lily Burk, 17


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