Bruce Rouse, 44, a businessman who owned several gas stations, had his lower jaw blown away by a second shotgun blast and was bludgeoned with the butt of the gun before he was killed by five knife wounds to his heart. As his parents slept, Rouse crept into the bedroom with a shotgun and shot his mother point-blank, then turned the gun on his awakened father, clubbing and stabbing him as well. "You did the most hateful, most shockingly evil thing, devoid of all mercy and compassion," Lake County Associate Judge Victoria Rossetti said in frustration that, because of the law at the time of the murders, she could not sentence Rouse to life in prison. After graduating from Yale College in 1991, he worked for a few months in Japan before moving to Manhattan to pursue an acting career. Rouse confessed to killing his parents, Bruce and Darlene Rouse, on June 5, 1980. [26] Norton won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor[27] and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category for his role in the film. Their bedrooms were on the second floor of the mansion. [151], Norton has served as a member of the board of trustees of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit developer of affordable housing founded by his grandparents, since 1998. He portrayed Brown University Professor Bill and his identical twin Brady Kincaid in the comedy Leaves of Grass, and convicted arsonist Gerald "Stone" Creeson in the crime film Stone. [170][171][172] He feels it necessary to keep his off-screen life to himself and opts for a "normal life. He is also the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity. Bruce and Darlene Rouse were self-made millionaires who took up residence in a 13-bedroom mansion in unincorporated Libertyville at 2057 N. Milwaukee Ave., a few blocks north of Route 137. [73] It grossed over $211 million worldwide. Courtesy of Illinois Department of Corrections. Lake County First Assistant State's Attorney Jeffrey Pavletic led the prosecution's case that solved a notorious murder in his hometown. [28][37] He also has two Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Primal Fear and Birdman, winning for the former.[27][179]. [178] His biggest commercial successes are Red Dragon (2002), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Incredible Hulk (2008), and The Bourne Legacy (2012), all of which grossed over $200 million worldwide. [119][120][121] Norton worked again with director Anderson for the 2018 stop motion film Isle of Dogs, in which he voiced Rex, a member of a pack of five dogs. [59][60][61] In the horror film Red Dragon, Norton starred as retired FBI profiler Will Graham, who is assigned to track down a mysterious serial killer utilizing his psychological abilities. Booking photo of William Rouse on Oct. 14, 1995. Fred Rouse was later. [97], He also starred in the crime drama Pride and Glory (2008) as Ray Tierney, an honest detective assigned to investigate the precinct run by his older brother. "The bad things that happened did not happen in our town," said Weppler, 63, in a phone interview later. He and his wife, Darlene, were well-known in Libertyville and lived in a 13-room house with an indoor pool and horses on their estate. On June 6, 1980, they were murdered in their bed. "[174], Due to his controversial opinions, Norton has earned a reputation for being difficult to work with. He played kids show host Sheldon Mopes, who quickly rises to fame for his character "Smoochy the Rhino", in the black comedy Death to Smoochy. When told of William Rouse's confession, she replied, "Everybody knew that from the beginning.". During the trial, Rouses lawyer claimed the confession was coerced and suggested Rouses older brother was the real killer. [22] The playwright was impressed with Norton's rehearsal performance and cast him for its world premiere. He abides by Skanes' no-nonsense approach to coaching. [8] His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" Rouse, was an English teacher who died of a brain tumor in 1997. Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. [96] Norton later claimed that he chose not to play Hulk again because he "wanted more diversity" and opted against associating himself with one character throughout his career. With three members of the family dead, another in prison and their home burned, all that misery, sorrow and horror is reduced to memories. Today, the house is once again a single-family residence, and its quiet facade belies the horrors that took place within. [64] His other lead role was in the action thriller The Bourne Legacy, the fourth installment in the Bourne series. [9][10] Norton's maternal grandfather, James Rouse, was the founder of real-estate developer The Rouse Company and co-founder of the real estate corporation Enterprise Community Partners. Bruce Rouse made his fortune owning gas stations. Since then, the Rouse murders have come up from time to time in the news. James Wilson Rouse (April 26, 1914 - April 9, 1996) was an American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company. [136] He narrated the four-part National Geographic documentary Strange Days on Planet Earth (2005), which examines earth system science. As a strikebreaker, he crossed both union and racial lines. [136] In 2003, he collaborated with oil company BP to develop the Solar Neighbors program, which aimed to install photovoltaic panels on rooftops of households in Los Angeles. [9][11] He has two younger siblings, Molly and James. After losing one of the biggest matches of her career to Liv Morgan at SummerSlam, Rousey was understandably upset. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Rouse, washing the blood off his arms and hair in the utility room, thought, "I've got to make it look like somebody else did it." Suspicion for years had turned to his older brother, Kurt, who looked the part of a hippie in 1980, with straggly blond hair, according to news reports. [19] Norton insisted that he was not romantically involved with Love, and the two were only friends and colleagues. [63][64] Norton also co-produced and featured in 25th Hour, a film about post-9/11 New York City. It's all about intellectual debate," Ratner told The Times in 2003. He was raised in Columbia, Maryland. Libertyville, Illinois, on June 5, 1980, and Bruce and Darlene Rouse were murder in a brutal attack that shocked the entire community. Pavletic and Assistant State's Attorney Claudia Kasten insisted Kurt had nothing to do with the murders and that Billy never shared information with either sibling. Billy Rouse didn't testify during his trial, but his attorneys raised the specter that his brother was the killer. [69] Rolling Stone praised his character as "perversely magnetic" despite giving the film a negative review. 1941. He went upstairs and cleaned his shotgun before opting for his dad's semi-automatic shotgun. In the film, Norton portrayed retired Air Force colonel Eric Byer, who decides to terminate an illegal operation after it is exposed to the FBI, and kill everyone involved. Four months later, a surveyor wading into the river during a road-widening project stumbled upon guns and a garbage bag of items that included a purse and wallet with a driver's license. For the first years, Darlene worked by his side. [40] Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival. Pool photo by Thomas Delany Jr./Sun-Times Media. That didn't work," said Rouse, who fractured his father's skull before he went to the kitchen to fetch a knife. [111] The Los Angeles Times lauded him for successfully portraying the volatility of the character,[112] and Newsday complimented his "truly moving" poetic delivery. Today, friends recall the Rouse murders with a mixture of curiosity, fear and dread. He finished every time., Lifes a beach under the basket for Lemonts Miles Beachum. "I don't know how many times I hit him. In a videotaped confession, Rouse said he killed his parents after a confrontation with his mother over his drug use in which she threatened to send him to military school. He opened drawers in his parents' bedroom and grabbed some of his mom's jewelry and her purse to make it look like a robbery. [130][131][132], Norton appeared on the PBS genealogy series Finding Your Roots in January 2023, where it was confirmed that Pocahontas was his 12th great-grandmother. "It was creepy-scary," said Cindy Hutson, 54, who lived in Mundelein, where the Rouses were also well known. [123], Since coming to fame in the mid-1990s, Norton has opted not to discuss his personal life in public, saying that he "believes that excessive media coverage can distract him from fulfilling his role as an actor". He's going to try to rescue the film. [42][43] While the film divided contemporary critics,[44][45] Norton's role was widely applauded. [108], In 2014, Norton played in two Academy Award-winning films, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). [91], The Incredible Hulk received generally favorable reviews upon release. While the film was criticized for its narrative, Norton received plaudits for his acting. Friends said Bruce was a workaholic who beat his wife. [70] During this time, Norton co-founded a production company, Class 5 Films, with Yale classmate Stuart Blumberg and film producer Bill Migliore. It was early Friday in Key West when Rouse gave a videotaped confession to investigators from the Lake County Major Crime Task Force. [22] Norton recalled that he was inspired by Al Pacino, who also began his career in theater while struggling to establish himself in New York. No, he said, because all "I had to deal with then was gone." The film, as well as Norton's performance, was well received by critics. [102] The film was acclaimed by critics[103] and grossed over $68 million. [159], During the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, Norton supported but did not actively campaign for the Democratic nominee Barack Obama, saying that "it's much more interesting to encourage people to engage than to suggest that people should model themselves on me and my views". Impressed by his acting, she introduced Norton to the executives of the noir drama Primal Fear, an adaptation of William Diehl's 1993 novel. Sixteen years later, he would confess and be convicted of their murders. Later, the abandoned building was demolished, leaving room only for memories. His mother, Cheryl Rouse, was stunned. Father Bruce, a self-made man who built his fortune starting with a couple of gas stations and expanded into cable TV and real estate, built a 13 room mansion in Libertyville, an affluent suburb on Chicago's North Shore. [64] Norton also produced the comedy-drama Thanks for Sharing (2012) under his company Class 5 Films. Rouse told investigators he had squandered the approximately $300,000 he had collected from his parents' insurance fund. "I hope now," she said, "they'll leave this house alone. "My big concern is they want to talk about the gambling. [152] The company has invested $9 billion in equity capital, pre-development lending, mortgage financing, and house building for low-income Americans. Owning a chain of gas stations and cable services, they became prominent members of the Libertyville community. Almost from the start, the three Rouse children-Kurt, then 20, Robin, then 16 and William, then 15-were regarded as suspects by Lake County authorities. This originated with his concerns over environmental issues and sustainable development in addition to housing problems. It was the manager of one The Rouse House Revisited: Unraveling the Enigma of Murder, Police Corruption, and Organized Crime by Terry M. Mors, Ph.D. "For a small community like Libertyville, it was a big deal," remembers Lake County First Assistant State's Attorney Jeffrey Pavletic, who grew up in Libertyville but was attending the University of Dallas when the crime occurred. ", Lou Carlozo and Tribune Staff Writer. Even the house, dubbed Murder Mansion, Hell House and other names in various TV shows about the crimes, couldn't recover. Norton emerged as a filmmaker in the 2000s. The confession of William Rouse may close the chapter on not only a savage murder case, but also a failed American Dream. This toad sitting on an oil pipe will not overthrow itself." Rouse used his inheritance to buy a home in Key West, but he couldn't stop his life from spiraling out of control. "The first thing he wanted to see were photos of the murder scene," remembers Fagan, who provided large color photos of the grisly remains of Billy's mother. The fight ended with Batman's son being impaled on the sword of his evil . 5:30 PM. [138][139], Norton is a supporter of the African Wildlife Foundation and its "Say No" campaign which raises awareness and fights against illegal poaching of elephants and rhinoceroses for ivory and horn. The. And through the years, the house on Milwaukee Avenue became known as "Murder Mansion," a reputation reinforced when it was sold and turned into an illicit casino. It received negative critical feedback for its plot. He is married to Canadian film producer Shauna Robertson, with whom he has two children. Only 15 when he killed his parents in a notorious Libertyville crime in 1980, William "Billy" Rouse was convicted of their murders in 1996. Rouse is avoiding the traps that led him to squander two Division I-A football scholarships and landed him in jail for two months. "[19] AllMovie remarked that Norton attained "almost instant stardom" following his 1996 film debut in Primal Fear and could have risen to even greater fame. Booking photo of William Rouse on Oct. 14, 1995. "With the way the bodies had been treated -- brutally -- it must have been a crime of hate," Lake County Sheriff Tom Brown proclaimed that morning as police searched for clues in the rambling 13-room house with hidden passages, an indoor pool and a bucolic 7-acre estate the Rouses shared with their three children north of Libertyville. [164][175][176], In November 2020, Norton criticized then-US President Donald Trump for his unfounded claims of election fraud at the 2020 United States presidential election, as a "contemptible, treasonous, seditious assault on the stability of the country and its institutions. [2] In The Observer, Peter Preston noted that his image was unlike that of conventional screen "stars" because his most memorable characters are unlikeable, specifically a neo-Nazi in American History X. Preston likened his characters to those played by Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, whom Norton admires. He is a trustee of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization which advocates for affordable housing, and serves as president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He also starred in the film Fight Club (1999), which garnered a cult following . Robin age 16, and son, Billy age 15, lived in the main house. In 1984, while living in a transient hotel, Rouse went to jail for 60 days after he disrupted a chess game and stabbed a man. Timeka Gordon and Fred Rouse III stand behind 100 roses left at the site where Rouse's grandfather Fred Rouse was attacked 100 years ago at the Fort Worth Stockyards. [144], After the successful fundraising for the Maasai Conservation, Norton launched an online fundraising platform called Crowdrise in May 2010. "He was just a real cold kid with a lot of hate inside for his mother," Fagan says. Michael Blazincic and state's attorney's investigator David Ostertag to visit Rouse in a Florida lock-up. Albee found a new role for him instead and had Norton read for Fragments. He couldn't pay the taxes and lost his house. William. "It's just a field.". A shirtless Billy Rouse, 15, sits outside his family home on June 6, 1980, while police investigate the savage slayings of his parents in their bedroom. Something was not right today. The parents showered the kids with money, fancy cars, horses and other trappings. [153] In 2008, Norton initiated the company's plan to embark on green affordable housing. [19], After five months in Japan, Norton moved to New York City, where he supported himself working odd jobs. He then set to work building a chain of gas stations, owning his first at age 21. [15] He graduated from Wilde Lake High School in 1987. [19], In 1998, Norton starred alongside Matt Damon in Rounders, which follows two friends who urgently need cash and play poker to pay off a huge debt. In 2002, the mansion burned, attracting a crowd of observers. May this hero lead Russia one day. On June 6, 1980, they were murdered in their bed. People wondered if the children knew something, or whether the sons, whose drug and alcohol abuse led to clashes with their parents, had been involved in the slayings. The Bourne Legacy received lukewarm reviews[104] but has been Norton's highest-grossing venture so far, earning over $276 million worldwide. He continued to receive critical acclaim for his acting roles in films such as The Score (2001), 25th Hour (2002), The Illusionist (2006), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Both received weak reviews; Leaves of Grass was praised for Norton's performance but criticized for its conflicting tonal shifts,[100] while Stone was panned because of a clumsy plot with excessive twists. "He knew what the score was. Living under that cloud, Kurt took his estimated $600,000 inheritance, moved to California and forged a new life. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. [118] He played Whit Yardsham, an estranged friend and business partner of Howard Inlet (Will Smith) in the 2016 drama Collateral Beauty. The film was panned by critics for its incoherent screenplay. [125] Nevertheless, appearing on an episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Love stated they had dated for four years. [126] She said that Norton had been a "mediator" and "communicator" between her and her daughter Frances Bean Cobain, calling him a "force of good". 25 February 2023. "I got in the car and drove around," he said. [153] He attributed his involvement in community building to his upbringing in Columbia, Maryland, which is a planned city built in the 1960s and home to a diverse population. The killings were a. Documentary Crime In the town of Libertyville, IL, Bruce and Darlene Rouse appear to have everything: wealth, success and three wonderful children. "It's time to put the demons to bed," Fagan told Rouse. [17] He attended Yale College, where he earned a BA in History. He was living on a houseboat in Key West, having squandered his share of the $2 million fortune his father made with a chain of gas stations. [161] Norton spoke highly of Obama, crediting him as "a perfect framework" to explore contemporary U.S. He then rented a studio space near The Public Theater and presented his auditions of Shakespearean works to her. "[124] He also expects different approaches to projects with different collaborators and wishes for "happy" working situations as long as "the boundaries of the collaboration are well-established in the beginning. Oswego Easts Jehvion Starwood steps up with winning 3-pointer in OT. The June 6, 1980 murder of Bruce and Darlene Rouse went unsolved until Rouse was picked up by Florida police last fall as a robbery suspect. "We were extremely blue collar, and the Rouses were like having money. Toronto Star's Peter Howell praised Norton's direction, but thought the film was complex and too long. Her author profile at Penguin Random House notes that she . Born in Boston and raised in Columbia, Maryland,[1] Norton was drawn to theatrical productions at local venues as a child. 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