A little more than three weeks after becoming top cop in Buffalo Grove, Brian Budds and his department were thrust into the national spotlight on the morning of Nov. 30, 2022.
A well-being check at a home on Acacia Terrace brought the discovery of something the new police chief could only describe as “horrific” — the slain bodies of a woman, her two young daughters and her mother-in-law by her estranged husband, who then took his own life.
