{"id":554465,"date":"2026-01-30T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:55:09","slug":"man-charged-in-murder-of-oswego-woman-seen-being-chased-on-home-cams-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554465\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in murder of Oswego woman seen being chased on home cams \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murder charges have been filed against a suburban Chicago man after a woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/suburban-woman-found-dead-after-husband-sees-man-chase-her-on-home-camera\/3882901\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was seen on her surveillance camera <\/a>being chased into her garage before police found her dead inside her home this week, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Oswego Police Department announced Thursday that 44-year-old Ryan Dodd, of Aurora, was charged with first-degree murder, home invasion, armed violence, residential burglary and aggravated stalking in connection with the killing of 41-year-old Ashley Stewart. <\/p>\n<p>Police said they were first called Tuesday afternoon to Stewart&#8217;s home in the 400 block of Valentine Way after her husband called 911 believing &#8220;his wife was in danger.&#8221; The husband reported he saw on his home surveillance cameras footage of his wife being chased by a man into their garage. He believed the man chasing Stewart was her ex-husband. <\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they found Stewart unresponsive inside the home. She was later pronounced dead at the scene, with an autopsy determining she died of multiple &#8220;sharp force injuries.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation determined that Dodd, who was the victim\u2019s ex-husband, followed her as she entered her residence and attacked and killed her with a knife,&#8221; police said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>A witness reported seeing a man fleeing the area and a manhunt began, with officers using drones and canine teams to search around Wolfs Crossing Road. A vehicle description and plate number for a possible suspect were also provided, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, police spotted a vehicle and driver matching the description of a possible suspect on Harvey Road near Hathaway Lane and the driver was taken into custody a short time later. <\/p>\n<p>Dodd is expected to appear in court for a hearing Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murder charges have been filed against a suburban Chicago man after a woman was seen on her surveillance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":554466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,61575],"class_list":["post-554465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-oswego"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115985339176329996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}