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 The video, turned in Wednesday night by a Fox Lake homeowner from
near where the shooting occurred, was being processed by the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, Lake County Major Crime Task Force
Commander George Filenko told a news conference.
Filenko said the task force expected results back from the video as
soon as Thursday evening. He said officials believed the video was
"significant."
"I believe we are making some progress, some significant progress
today," Filenko said.
The gun of the slain officer, Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles
Joseph Gliniewicz, 52, had been recovered, Filenko said, declining
to say where it was found, whether it had been fired or if there
were fingerprints found on it.
 Evidence taken from the crime scene had been turned over to a crime
lab, Filenko said.
Investigators are getting an influx of significant leads and believe
there is a good probability the suspects are still in the area of
Fox Lake or surrounding communities, Filenko said.
The investigation veered to a nearby area for a few hours on
Wednesday night after an Illinois woman said two men resembling
suspects tried to get into her vehicle but ran into a cornfield
because they feared she was calling police, authorities said.
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About 85 federal, state and local police, 11 canine units and three
aircraft searched five hours without finding any sign of the
suspects before Kristin Kiefer told investigators she had lied to
them because she wanted attention, the Lake County Sheriff's Office
said in a statement.
Kiefer, 30, of Vernon Hills, Illinois, was charged with two counts
of falsifying a police report, the sheriff's office said.
Gliniewicz was killed about 5 miles north of where Kiefer said she
saw the suspects.
(Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales; Additional reporting by David
Bailey in Minneapolis and Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by
Mohammad Zargham and Peter Cooney)
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