A 66-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder as a juvenile 50 years ago is now accused of beating and stabbing his 88-year-old mother to death and hiding her body behind a bookcase in the basement of their Far South Side home.
Kevan Works was ordered detained on Friday by Cook County Judge Rivanda Doss Beal on charges of first-degree murder and concealment of the homicidal death of his mother, Daniest Graves.
Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Pekara said Graves went silent on March 27, failing to send her daily “good morning” texts to her sister, missing work, and skipping a planned grocery store outing. When she also failed to show up for Palm Sunday church services, her sister took a cab to the home Graves shared with Works. He seemed “startled” to see her and physically blocked her from entering, Pekara said…