Former boss arrested for murder in teen's 2002 disappearance

By Associated Press

10:39 PM CST, February 26, 2010
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — McHenry County authorities say that seven years after Brian Carrick vanished from a grocery store in the northwestern Chicago suburb of Johnsburg, his former boss has been charged with killing the 17-year-old stockboy.

Johnsburg police Sgt. Keith VonAllmen said Fox Lake police and an FBI agent arrested 26-year-old Mario Casciaro of McHenry late Friday afternoon, a day after he was indicted for first-degree murder and concealing a homicide.

Casciaro was being held on $5 million bond. A shift sergeant at the McHenry County Jail said late Friday she did not know if he had an attorney

Carrick disappeared on Dec. 20, 2002 from his job at Val's Foods. No body was ever found, but police said they found traces of his blood inside the store.

In 2009, Casciaro was acquitted of perjury charges stemming from Carrick's disappearance.

Posted by Thomas A. (Tad) DiBiase, No Body Guy