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Thivel waives extradition A Medford man accused in the 1996 murders of a young couple in the Chicago area waived extradition Monday. Jackson County Judge Ray White gave Illinois authorities 15 days to retrieve James Justin Thivel, 27, who also waived his right to a pre-extradition identification hearing scheduled for Monday. Those hearings establish a defendant is who the state says he is. Thivel remains in custody at the Jackson County Jail on a no-bail detainer. Thivel was arrested May 24 in Medford in connection with the deaths of Eva Caudell, 20, and Robert Farberger, 24, whose bodies were found Jan. 10, 1996, in a car in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines. Authorities said the couple died from multiple gunshot wounds to the backs of their heads. Thivel moved to Oregon shortly after the shootings. At the time of his arrest, he worked for National Flora, a telephone and Internet order-taking service for florists. Des Plaines police said Thivel knew the victims and always was a suspect in the case. He was even arrested early on but quickly released because of insufficient evidence. The second arrest was based on new evidence and witnesses, police said. They otherwise refused to discuss the case in detail. According to published accounts, both victims had ties to the Latin Kings gang in Chicago. Farberger also had a long record and once served prison time on a conviction for car theft. Mail Tribune Copyright � The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA