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Ex-Northwestern Professor To Stand Trial In Fatal Stabbing

CHICAGO (CBS/AP) -- A former Northwestern University professor is set to stand trial in the stabbing death of his boyfriend.

It's part of what prosecutors said was a sexual fantasy he shared with another man who was charged in the case.

According the Chicago Sun-Times reports that jury selection, opening statements and testimony from at least one witness are expected to happen Monday in the trial of 47-year-old Wyndham Lathem.

He is charged in the July 2017 killing of Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau, a 26-year-old hair stylist from Michigan who was stabbed dozens of times in Lathem's Chicago high-rise condominium.

Lathem, a renowned microbiologist, and Andrew Warren, an Oxford University financial officer, were arrested in California after an eight-day manhunt. Warren pleaded guilty in 2019.

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