Across the border, beyond the law

Daniel Carrillo, left, talks in the presence of his parents, Jesus Carrillo and Maria Guadalupe Campa, and his brother Cuberto Carrillo, right, at his father's wood shop in Rincon de Tamayo, Mexico. Carrillo is a fugitive charged with molesting two girls.

Felix Ralph Bergollo, killed in 1990, holds daughter Tiffany in a family photo.

Esmeralda Mendez, second from left, named her daughter Sonia Hernandez, 13, far left, after her mother Sonia Naranjo, shown in a framed portrait. At right are Mendez's sister Brenda Molina and their brother Mario Mendez.

Recently retired Joliet police chief Fred Hayes expressed frustration at not being able to apprehend fugitives accused of violent crimes who escaped across the U.S. border. Hayes called the U.S. extradition system "broken."

Brenda Molina becomes emotional as she remembers her mother, Sonia Naranjo, allegedly killed by Kyung Ho Song in an accident about 15 years ago. Song, charged with drunk driving and reckless homicide, later fled to South Korea.

Larry Flores, 13, hugs his grandmother Ana Maria Chavez, while visiting Alma Chavez's gravesite.

A photo album belonging to Stephen and Saundra Browning shows their 18-year-old son Armand with his sister Amber Egwele.

Arcelia Flores' parents Crecenzia Perez, 68, and Marciano Flores, 70, in their home in Agua Rosada, Mexico.

Chavez family and friends hold a rosary prayer in their Pisen home for Bonifacio Chavez, Alma's father, who died in 2007 without finding his daughter's killer.

The house in Emiliano Zapata, Mexico, where Pedro Aguilar has been living according to neighbors, records and his youngest brother Armando Aguilar, who lives nearby.

Araceli Ayala, wife of fugitive Roberto Valdez-Calixto, holds her 17-month-old daughter Palmira Valdez outside her house in Texcapilla, Mexico.

Tribune reporters found Carlos Castillo living in this home, which is owned by his mother, in the Mexican town of San Francisco de los Romo.

International fugitive Carlos Castillo said he has been overwhelmed by shame and fear after fleeing the U.S. in 2009 to avoid prosecution for a Chicago hit-and-run accident that killed DePaul University student Rachel Gilliam. Castillo vowed to return to Chicago to face justice. Tribune reporters found Carlos Castillo living in this home, which is owned by his mother, in the Mexican town of San Francisco de los Romo. San Francisco de los Romo, a town of about 14,000 people in central Mexico where Carlos Castillo fled in 2009 after allegedly being involved in a Chicago hit-and-run accident that killed DePaul University student Rachel Gilliam.

Oscar Hernandez's common-law wife, Maria Dolores Nieves, holds their 7-month-old son Juan Angel Hernandez in El Estudiante, Mexico, where they live. Hernandez is a fugitive charged with the murder of Armand Browning.

Siblings of Tombol Malik -- from left, his brother Samil, sister Shiera and brother Sati -- grieve during a candlelight vigil held in the 1500 block of South Sangamon Street, where Tombol was beaten to death. One of the suspects in the homicide, Muaz Haffar, fled to Syria and is a fugitive.

Juan Rios, third from left, and his sister Maria Bergollo, second from right, look at family pictures, including some of their slain brother Felix Ralph Bergollo, with their children. Humboldt Park store owner Abdulrafiu Shokunbi was convicted in absentia of killing Bergollo in 1990. Shokunbi fled to Nigeria and remains at large.

Stephen Browning holds an angel's trumpet flower from the plant he and his wife placed in their backyard in honor of their slain son.

A dog sits by the entrance of Oscar Hernandez's home in El Estudiante, Mexico.

Oscar Navarro sits in his Northlake home with his daughter Karen. Arturo Daza, who fled to Mexico, allegedly helped to conceal the 2009 homicide of Eric Navarro.

Tiffany Bergollo, 29, daughter of Felix Ralph Bergollo, talks about her father.

Shiera Malik holds a photograph of Hyde Park taken by her brother Tombol Malik, who was beaten to death with a bike lock. The man accused of killing him, Muaz Haffar, fled to Syria in 2005.

Blanca Iris Jusino, mother of Felix Ralph Bergollo, and her husband, Eleuterio Gonzalez, in their home on Chicago's Northwest Side. A portrait of their son hangs on the wall in the background.

Saundra Browning, mother of 18-year-old murder victim Armand Browning, holds a photo album containing photos of her son. Oscar Hernandez, charged with killing Armand, fled to Mexico.

Armando Aguilar, brother of fugitive Pedro Aguilar, talks to Tribune reporters in Emiliano Zapata, Mexico.

Family photo of Arcelia Flores standing next to her husband Jorge Coronel. Coronel is wanted for killing Arcelia in Rogers Park in December 1997. He remains a fugitive.

Attorney Steven Saltzman, right, and Nabil Haffar, center, leave the bond hearing for Haffar's son Muaz, accused of beating a student to death. Muaz Haffar fled to Syria after posting bond.

Ana Maria Chavez tends the gravesite of her daughter Alma Chavez.

Fugitive Daniel Carrillo talks to Tribune reporters in Rincon de Tamayo, Mexico, where he's been living since he left Chicago in 2001.

A woman rides her bike past a wall in Rincon de Tamayo, a Mexican town where Tribune reporters found two fugitives from the Chicago area.

Muaz Haffar leaves the Cook County Jail at 26th and California after bond was posted. He is accused of killing Tombol Malik. Haffar fled to Syria.

A lit candle sits between framed photographs of Alma Chavez, right, and her father Bonifacio, on the family's altar in their Pilsen home. Bonifacio died without finding Alma's killer.

Ana Maria Chavez sits on her daughter Alma Chavez's bed. The room has remained unchanged since Alma was allegedly killed by her ex-boyfriend Raul Tolentino on Jan. 7, 2000.

Abraham Caudel at his brother's tannery shop in Guadalajara, Mexico. Caudel is a fugitive charged with sexually assaulting his daughter in 2003 in DeKalb.

Stephen and Saundra Browning, parents of 18-year-old murder victim Armand Browning, stand in front of an angel's trumpet plant they placed in their backyard in honor of their son.

Family photo of Arcelia Flores with her three children pictured in her Rogers Park apartment before her murder in 1997.

A photograph of Sonia Naranjo, killed by a car after her station wagon broke down on the way to a casino, is on display in the home of her sister Esmeralda Mendez.

Rachel Gilliam, 25, was killed in a hit-and-run accident at this Lincoln Avenue intersection.