Innocent woman set alight on Chicago subway ‘by serial criminal’ freed on ankle monitor by soft touch judge in horrific echo of Iryna Zarutska murder | 23 Nov 2025 | The woman set alight by a lunatic on a Chicago metro train is a 26-year-old analyst for Caterpillar who suffered burns to 60 percent of her body. Bethany MaGee, 26, was doused in gasoline and set alight on the city’s Blue Line on Monday night, but managed to flee the train and survive. MaGee, from Upland in Indiana, works as a business research analyst at Caterpillar after graduating with a bachelors of science at Purdue’s Polytechnic Institute. Her Facebook profile photos revealed that she is an animal lover and churchgoer… MaGee’s father Dr Gregory MaGee is a professor of Biblical studies at Taylor University, a Christian college in Indiana. The man police named as her attacker, 50-year-old Lawrence Reed, is a serial criminal with 72 prior arrests freed months earlier by a judge after he allegedly attacked a social worker.