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Robert E. Horan, Jr., ’83, who served as Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney for forty years before retir- ing in 2007, died on October 28, 2022 at the age of ninety. He graduated from Mount St. Mary’s College in 1954 and subsequently joined the Marine Corps, during which he met his wife, Monica. They were married on October 26, 1957. He then attended Georgetown Law School and graduated in 1961. Robert entered private practice, spent two years as an assistant prosecutor, and was appointed to the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s posi- tion in Fairfax County in 1967. Robert prosecuted many high-profile cases during his forty years, handling the trials himself, including James L. Breeden, convicted of killing four people in a walk-in refrigerator at a Roy Rog- ers restaurant; Mir Aimal Kausi, convicted of killing two employees and wounding three others at the CIA; Lee Boyd Malvo, convicted of killing ten people in northern Virginia, the District and Maryland; and Alfred Prieto, convicted of killing two people in Fairfax. Robert was an avid golfer and once won a Mercedes Benz for hitting a hole in one in a tournament in which he was competing. Robert continued in the Marine Corps Reserves and re- tired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1992. Robert is survived by Monica, his three sons and three grandchildren.
H. Gilbert Jones, ’74, was ninety-five when he passed on November 29, 2022. Gil was born in Fargo, North Dakota, received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Yale University in 1947 and his J.D. from UCLA in 1956. He founded a medical malpractice defense firm and continued his active trial practice through much of his ‘90s; he even had one case pending at the time of his passing. Over the course of his career, Gil tried more than 200 cases to verdict and argued several significant matters before the Supreme Court of California and various appellate courts. In 2014, Gil was honored as the Best Personal Injury Defense Attorney in Orange County, California. He was named National President of ABOTA in 1989 and remained an active member of that organization until the time of his passing.
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William J. Kunkle Jr., ’89, died November 19, 2022. Probably best known for his successful prosecution of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, Bill could have coasted on the celebrity of that case for the rest of his career but instead used the experience to travel the country to teach others about the trial and its legal peculiar- ities. He prosecuted several other high-profile cases.
He was a special prosecutor of the “DuPage 7”— the seven law officers accused and later acquitted of cooking up evidence to convict Rolando Cruz in the 1983 kidnap- ping, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in Naperville Township. He headed an unsuccessful defense of disgraced Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge, accused of tor- turing dozens into false confessions. And he helped con- duct the congressional inquiry that forced former House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, to resign. Before becom- ing a prosecutor, Bill worked as an assistant public de- fender in Cook County. Bill left the Cook County State Attorney’s Office in 1985 for private practice. He was Chairman of the Illinois Gaming Board from 1990 to 1993, then served as a Cook County judge until retiring in 2014. Bill enjoyed cross-country motorcycle trips he organized with colleagues and friends since 1978, some- times spanning 1,500 miles, with stops for camping at national parks. “He planned everything: where you were
George Kargianis, ’81, was ninety-three at his death in what we believe was September 2022, but there was no obituary, so the details are not clear. We do know that George graduated from the University of Washington Law School in 1953. He served four years as an admin istrative law judge and focused his practice on complex class action litigation.
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