Former cop, 61, 'who planned to dismember, torture and kill businessman in extortion plot hangs himself with a bedsheet in jail'

A former police officer accused of plotting to torture, dismember and bleed a businessman to death as part of a plan to extort millions from him has died in jail in an apparent suicide. Gary Engel, 61, was found hanged in his cell by a bedsheet on Monday morning, McHenry County Deputy Coroner Robert Locke told the Chicago Sun-Times.

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