Key experts were never called to testify. Blake had been shot in the forehead and near his left underarm indicating he had raised his arm defensively. Five years later, Chris was convicted of murdering his family and is now serving four life sentences. It didnt make sense that a guy, like Chris, an expert computer forensic investigator, would leave damaging evidence on his computer if he were contemplating killing his family. Pritzkers press secretary declined to comment. At Vaughns 2012 trial, jurors heard that Vaughn had been discovered limping and bloody along the frontage road by a man on his way to work. She was athletic and played volleyball. They are lucky they were allowed to be at the funeral. Kimberly Phillips was born on December 12, 1972, to Del and Susan Phillips of Saint Charles, Missouri. At the National Innocence Conference in Cincinnati in April 2011, I ran into an old friendRob Warden, Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Law School. The family all dressed in water park attire because thats where they believed they were going. Courtesy Melville Vaughan When the FBI took up the case, in 1923, agents badly bungled the probe. Who would more likely use his jacket to conceal a gun? Camren Wynter hit a three-pointer with 0.7 seconds left to give Penn State a 68-65 victory against Northwestern. "When you first opened the door, it looked like they all should be sleeping," he said. Our crime scene expert Tom Bevel used a dowel rod to determine the bullet trajectory. Prosecutors said blood evidence suggested Vaughn was moving over Kimberlys body after her death, and none of it pointed to a struggle. But at one point in the tape, a weary and disheveled Vaughn is seen saying: 'I couldnt have done this; she couldnt have done this.'. For the first few months, I had assumed this would be a sentencing case. Accused Family Killer Christopher Vaughn Read Articles About Staging Crime Scenes: Prosecutors Updated: Monday, 27 Jun 2011, The documents show the Vaughn family s trip to Knight s Water Park in Springfield also was planned the night before the murders, reached after Vaughn s wife accused him of spending too little time with their kids. Kim looked at me and said, You will not take my kids. Kim fired at me. When investigators arrived at the scene, they noticed blood stains on the strap of the seatbelt. "It crushes my heart," she said of being separated from her sister. Its unlikely that Vaughns recollection of the murders from 2007 was useful. Gov. Press J to jump to the feed. In this video, I visit the location where they we. He traveled all over the U.S and Mexico downloading computer hard drives and mobile devices for some of the largest law firms, Navigant clients. He allegedly murdered his family so he could move to a . He told a nurse, You should call my wife. On Saturday, Vaughn was arrested in St. Charles and Unholy Rollers January 21 2014 22min TV-14 Subtitles Subtitles English [CC] His children, 12-year-old Abigayle . he did it and heres what proved it: he had an article about hw to make a murder look like suicide, claimed he didnt read it but somehow followed some of the suggestions listed in the article. By analyzing the blood evidence on the wifes right thumb, it all comes together to prove it was the wife who unbuckled her own seatbelt, after her husband had been shot. It was only after police showed him the photos of his dead family that he began to refer to them in the past tense. Joliet Drug Dealer Arrested On Briggs Street: Police, Walgreens Pharmacist Attacked After Man Visits Wrong Store: JPD. He had re-secured the strap on the topper, got back into the vehicle, noticed that his leg was bleeding, but had no memory of being shot. On Monday, Vaughn was wearing a tan jacket and white collared shirt. Hargon received life in prison in the third slaying. "Our hearts ache with the knowledge that they were priceless to everyone but the one man who should have loved them more than his own life," she said of her four slain family members. So far, I have not found much Reddit discussion on it. first-degree murder in the deaths. , Your post contains more evidence than the seven hours of this podcast so far. It's believed the killings began around 12:45 p.m., but they weren't discovered for nearly 12 hours. Lol, Gave up early on as the host seemed to be going seriously Sarah Koenig on Mr Vaughn, Im not going to take anyone seriously if they hit me with the very silly he didnt have a killers eyes crap. 'You've been here all day. He said, Every time I would come up with something that the evidence would suggest or support or you would be able to at least follow the evidence to come to a logical conclusion, basically I was just given some other crazy way that this could have occurred or they would change their theory of what happened to try to match the evidence rather than letting the evidence dictate to you the events that occurred. I am new to Reddit. The podcasts host, Lauren Bright Pacheco, said the theory offered in Thursdays episode, its ninth, has already been tested in a crime-scene reconstruction July 15 in Kentucky. When he got back inside the car, he saw that his leg was bleeding, so he got out again and proceeded to walk up the road to get help. Ahhhhh. At first blush, it looked like Chris was guilty. After hearing the evidence that supported our defense theory, he recruited a defense attorney to assist pro bono. "She's happy on the outside, but you'll see, ladies and gentleman, she was troubled on the inside," Lenard said. But what we see on the left thumb is seepage of blood from the wound, creating large patterns of passive blood drops. He said Thursday he wants to find out when Vaughns memory returned. Madison digs deep into his mother's past, examining every member of his family as the possible culprit. The night before the killings, Vaughn also visited a shooting range, according to trial testimony. . , updated Raw and intimate, HBO's new four-part docuseries Murder on Middle Beach follows new filmmaker Madison Hamburg as he attempts to solve the murder of his mother Barbara, who was attacked in her own front yard in Connecticut in 2010. They lived briefly in an Aurora apartment . His blood is on her side of the car. Approved by the FDA to treat epilepsy and seizures, Topamax has an off label use for the treatment of migraine headaches. He replied, Well, it would increase the risk of suicidal thoughts.. blood stains occur not only during the bullet impact or exit (back spatter or forward spatter) but also following blood seepage or dripping from the wounds. We hear about inconsistencies, such as when the murder weapon was transported to the morgue, covered with cloth, and then washed. He told investigators he had been too busy to read the magazine. He brutally murdered them in June 2007 The sergeant tells . That spring he went on a vacation alone to explore the Yukon. I may need to up my standards. Vaughn is being held in Pinckneyville Correctional Center, records show. Why take a shot like that at a dead woman?! In this case, the seatbelt latch was soaked with Chriss blood. Gone was the Capital Litigation Trust Fund, a $20 million statewide fund created as one of the reforms to level the playing field by providing funding for defense experts, investigators, and experienced criminal defense attorneys. Chris pleaded with police to get the video so he would know what happened to his family. We asked the doctor who prescribed the Topamax about his patients email to her husband. On the way, Kimberly started to feel sick, so he got off I-55 around Channahon and took the quiet frontage road. Around 5:20 a.m. on June 14, 2007, a man driving to work along the frontage road of Interstate 55 south of Joliet, Illinois encountered Christopher Vaughn, 32, limping away from the Ford Expedition he had been driving. That made it a little more personal for me, but I would have been thoroughly grossed out regardless. 'Abigayle, Blake,' the detective adds. He said he wanted the family to be taken care of financially. Transfer stains occur when an object, like a thumb, comes into contact with a bloody object. Doesnt make him some kind of hero. "You could lock him up for 500 lifetimes and it would not compensate the victims in this case or the family members.". Judge Clifton Newman agreed on . 2020 UNSOLVED MAGAZINE All Rights Reserved. A potential family annihilator unhappy in his marriage that seems 100% guilty just based on the fact he is the biggest threat to the attacker, but is not killed. Then, later, he adds: 'She shot me, she shot the kids.'. (CBS), Christopher Vaughn, Prosecutors said Vaughn shoved his Taurus handgun under Kimberlys chin from outside the SUV and shot her, then reached over her to shoot his children. Traces of his flesh and blood, and denim and polyester fibers consistent with the jacket and jeans were found on the bullet. Vaughn happened to use the same gun to practice shooting at a range the night before the killings, Mills mentioned. There was no sexual contact, not even a lap dance. 10. . Christopher Vaughn (second from left) sits with his family in his Oswego home before they were murdered in 2007. . first-degree murder in the Christopher Vaughn is accused of murdering his wife and three kids in 2007. . And in Stone, Vaughn has enlisted the same attorney who represents Marni Yang, the woman convicted of killing the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle another case being challenged. For some inexplicable reason, this report, received before the probable cause hearing, was marked draft. (Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune). 'I just don't know I think I panicked or something.'. Have the Vaughns considered that the reason their in laws didn't want to visit them is because they are jerks? Much of the trial focused on blood evidence that prosecutors said proved Vaughn murdered his family. I can breathe again. He posted wistful Internet messages about building a cabin and. Five years later, a jury found Chris guilty of murdering his family; today, he is incarcerated for four lifetimes. During my investigation, I found a June 2003 American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology article entitled Back-Spatter Patterns: Hands Hold the Clues for the Forensic Reconstruction of the Sequence of Events that showed an illustration of the same orientation of a self-inflicted gunshot wound: Blood spatter is mostly expected on the back of the thumb that is used for pulling the trigger . The gun had not been jammed under her chin, as investigators initially suspected. The 51/2 week trial included testimony from two former strippers whom Vaughn plied with cash and an FBI expert who translated 140 pages of runic writings that Vaughn, who had an interest in druidism, had scribbled in a notebook while in jail awaiting trial. He is at Menard Correctional Center, one of the most violent prisons in Illinois. He spent over $4,000 on one stripper during two visits a week apart. Feb. 28, 2023. . The bag was still sitting on the table untouched about an hour later. Nearly nine years after a judge handed four life terms to an Oswego man for the murders of his wife and three children, an effort is underway to free the person convicted of one of suburban Chicagos most troubling crimes, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. On June 14, 2007, the Vaughn family from Oswego loaded up the family vehicle and headed for Springfield, IL to spend the day at Knight's Action Park. If he isnt guilty why wasnt he looking for who did it? The letter said Vaughn trusted investigators to get to the truth. Updated 11/27/12 - 4:05 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) -- An Oswego man has been sentenced to life in prison for the horrifying murders of his wife and children . whose wife and three children were found fatally shot in the Mr. Vaughn is quirky. (By Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune), Investigators collect evidence from the Vaughn She was one of Susans three daughters with Del, an attorney. family. .I froze and I looked down and my leg was bleeding. To have that memory in his mind of what happened next would be too painful to bear. The fact it was either him or his wife that was the shooter. On the second day, when police pressed him to try to remember what happened by telling him do it for your children, he had a fragmentary memory. He had two survivable gunshot wounds. On Saturday, Vaughn was arrested in St. Charles and charged with eight counts of. His three children had each been shot twice, and his wife had a single gunshot wound under her chin. Each of the murders resulted in a life sentence for 46-year-old Vaughn. That would be significant, he said. 'The only thing I can think is that Kim somehow got a hold of my gun,' Vaughn said. Because he drove her to visit friends?! Her father is expected to take the witness stand Tuesday. His case seems to be that the ballistics did not 100% line up with the state's theory. Our expert called me and said he was convinced by watching the 20 hours of video that Chris may be innocent. One bullet pierced his left wrist, while another went through his left leg. However, a state police ballistic expert from ISP crime lab who was present when he made this remark disputed this chauvinistic assumption saying that her own hand was able to test fire the weapon with no difficulty. Kimberly suffered an angle-contact gunshot wound under her chin, records show. When he was questioned by detectives in the following days, Vaughn told them conflicting versions of how the shooting happened, Mills said, and video of the various interrogations will be shown to the jury. Family Annihilation: The Vaughn Family Murders. His wife passed a certification course and practiced shooting at a Seattle range. November 27, 2012 / 10:33 AM / CBS Chicago. "Mr. Vaughn does not show his feelings or emotions to anyone under any circumstances," said attorney George Lenard. To this day he maintains no memory of what occurred that tragic day 20 years ago. It was a sickening feeling, as the architect of our defense experts and strategy, watching the case swirling around the toilet bowl. SHARE. 'Murder in Illinois' also explores the details of Chris Vaughn's family. The screening of his police interview video has been the most dramatic part of the second week of testimony at Vaughn's trial in Joliet, according to the Chicago Tribune. He, along with Edward Deli, were convicted of killing two people and critically injuring a third in . Instead, the trip turned into a bloody scene with Vaughn's wife and children all dying after being shot, leaving Vaughn as the sole survivor. Why not ask to be hypnotized so u can remember. While prosecutors flashed grisly photos of his wife and three young children slumped dead and bleeding in the family SUV, Christopher Vaughn sat expressionless, calmly jotting notes. . She said the results will be aired during the weekly podcasts 11th episode. 'Theyre dead. While his family wore summer clothes befitting an excursion to a Springfield waterpark, Vaughn donned cowboy boots, blue jeans, a T-shirt with a long-sleeved shirt over it, and a fleece jacket he purchased on a secret trip to the Yukon, said Assistant State's Attorney Deborah Mills. Transported to the hospital, Chris Vaughn believed his family was still alive. Chris Vaughn and his family are driving to a water park when their lives are tragically ended in a roadside shooting. The gun was thrust into his jacket above the right pocket for the second shot. Then, the surviving husband and father revealed that he had been getting threats. The jury in Alex Murdaugh 's high-profile murder trial will visit the scene where his wife Maggie and son Paul were brutally gunned down in the summer of 2021. He said Kimberlys arm blocked it. She married Christopher Vaughn in 1994. He allegedly killed his family so he could live by himself in the Canadian wilderness. In some cases the memory may be restored days later, or not at all, according to the DSM-IV. I am in the middle of the 9 part podcast about the Vaughn family murders. The ISP CSI described how the phenomenon of tunnel vision infected the Vaughn case. Later, under pressure, Vaughn is asked to guess what happened. Murder of the wife and children in the suburbs, Kimberly. Jurors found Vaughn guilty of the June 14, 2007, murders of his wife Kimberly, 34, and their children: 12-year-old Abigayle, 11-year-old Cassandra, and 8-year-old Blake. Hargon, 45 . The bullet was recovered from the motor of the drivers door window mechanism. "No, thank you," he told Judge Daniel Rozak in a soft voice. Prosecutors say Vaughn of Oswego killed his wife and three children in . Funding his defense reverted back to Will County. Vaughn at first insists his wife, Kimberly, could not have been responsible, as he had initially claimed. But Thursday, Waukegan defense attorney Jed Stone told the Sun-Times he recently signed on as lead counsel for Vaughn and has been looking down a number of avenues, all of which lead to actual innocence. Stone and another longtime investigator on the case, Bill Clutter, said they will start by seeking clemency for Vaughn this year from Gov. He was calm and did not display any signs of panic. Learn more about this story in the video above. The best defense evidence was developed when we went to inspect the family vehicle stored in the old Joliet Penitentiary. Murder in Illinois follows the complicated circumstances that led to Vaughn's conviction, as well as the forensic evidence his supporters believe proves his innocence- in . Alex Murdaugh called 911 on June 7, 2021, to report he found his wife Margaret, 52, and son Paul, 22, shot dead outside their Islandton home about an hour from Hilton Head Island, the South . Thank you very much in advance. Vaughn got out of the family SUV to look at the luggage rack on the roof. Then the doctor was asked what the significance would be taking both medications Nortriptyline and Topamax together. There were two holes in his jacket. [1] All four members of the family were shot in their SUV while on the way to a Springfield, IL waterpark. I was appointed as the fact investigator in 2007 after prosecutors declared their intent to seek the death penalty. ', 'They're gone,' Vaughn answers, his head bowed. Beloved wife of Christopher Vaughn; beloved mother of Abigayle, Cassandra and Blake; beloved daughter of Del and Susan Phillips The lawyer W.W. Vaughan, with his wife and several of their children. to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really Back spatter is defined as a fine mist of blood that travels away from the entrance wound and creates a conical shaped pattern of blood stains usually measuring less than a millimeter in diameter. "There can't be a more fitting end for him than that. "There isn't a punishment that fits this crime," State's Attorney James Glasgow said. Be forewarned that some of the. Kimberly planned to get her degree in criminal justice and join him as a PI. I have read some of the flood of news articles following the Chris Vaughn trial. Was disappointed to hear the spin as well. Thankful to unload this and release some aggravation! She set up a total financial package, but when she suggested insuring the lives of his children, Chris declined. A member of Kimberlys family declined to speak to the Sun-Times. Theyre real people.' (CBS), Christopher Vaughn, On Tuesday's episode of Dr. Phil, "Murder in the Suburbs: Inside the SUV," see a reenactment of the crime scene based on Vaughn's claims in a letter he wrote that he says show he didn't murder his family. ", Steve Schmadeke and Chicago Tribune reporter. She had sex with her bf, why dont they have equal responsibility in the pregnancy? Before the execution could be carried out, Earnest was stabbed 30-times by a fellow inmate at the state penitentiary. Were ready for anything that occurs, Glasgow said. Rozak said before imposing his sentence that he was "very frustrated" by the state Legislature's restrictions, an apparent reference to Illinois' decision last year to end the death penalty. The . She slumped toward the drivers seat and a river of blood flowed onto the center console, causing secondary spatter stains on the side of the drivers seat adjacent to the center console. . In discussing his fantasy to trek into the wilderness, he suggested he could fake his own death so his stay-at-home wife could collect on his three and a half million dollar life insurance policy. Christopher Vaughn wanted to live in perfect freedom in the Canadian wilderness, prosecutors said, but instead he will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Will County judge sentenced him to four consecutive life terms Tuesday for the murders of Vaughn's wife and three children. That stripped away resources to defend Vaughn. 'Mandalorian' star Pedro Pascal, creators on new Grogu revelations and 'Last of Us' comparisons, Saved by the bell: Contestant ordered to keep mask on, in historic 'Masked Singer' first, Chris Pine admits 'it does look' like Harry Styles spit on him but this is what actually happened, Rebel Wilson 'collapsed' after Ramona Agruma proposal: 'I was so overwhelmed', Amy Grant recalls being 'so scared' to return to touring following serious bike accident. Abigayle "Abbi" Vaughn, 12, an accomplished student and athlete who had just begun wearing eye makeup, was slain while clutching a Harry Potter book and a stuffed animal. Also this past weekend on 07/25/21, the afternoon radio host (WGN Radio) was discussing the horrific "crime of the century" when Richard Speck brutally murdered 8 nurses in Chicago (07/14/1966). I couldnt buckle the belt. 113K views 10 years ago Three years ago, the murder of one man's family stunned a small Illinois town. According to the prosecution, he reportedly killed his family in order to survive in the Canadian forest. On November 9, 1971, 46-year-old accountant John List killed his entire family in their Westfield, NJ, mansion. Earnest was convicted of murder and was sentenced to death. They told him that after 911 cell phone towers were equipped with security cameras. Season 1 explored a different case. It would make me feel better if you'd at least eat some fries,' says Lawson. I had the exact same feelings about the podcast. . Previously running for mayor and a beloved activist. Vaughn, who was stockpiling camping gear and spending thousands of dollars at strip clubs in the weeks before the slayings, declined to address the court before he was sentenced. I got back in to check the kids. The Oswego family was reportedly taking a day trip to a water park in Springfield when Christopher Vaughn left Interstate 55 and drove onto a frontage road when his wife became ill. The jury returned the verdicts Monday, a few hours after hearing from prosecutors and lawyers for the former cattle truck driver. .. as if that means anything. Kimberly Vaughn, 34, who had recently completed an online degree in criminal justice, was killed first, prosecutors said. On Tuesday, Kimberly's identical twin sister, Jennifer Ledbetter, explained that she feared her looks and personality traits were a painful reminder for the rest of her family of Kimberly's absence and violent death. Whats become of Christopher Vaughn? In the video interview, he demonstrated raising his left arm between the gun and his head just as he noticed her pointing the gun at him. Its worth mentioning that when Christopher was interviewed by police they suggested that he had been stressed out, which caused him to shoot and kill his family. I left a scathing review and I never do that. Vaughn shot them all on a secluded section of the Interstate 55 frontage road just outside Channahon, Mills said. I am not sure how you get past this fact. Its drivers-side window was broken. Crime Scene Reconstruction and Blood Stain Pattern Analysis: The Case of Christopher Vaughn By Bill Clutter Director of Investigations, "Investigating Innocence" The Scene of the Crime Around 5:20 a.m. on June 14, 2007, a man driving to work along the frontage road of Interstate 55 south of Joliet, Illinois encountered Christopher Vaughn, 32, limping This could be due to my lack of search skills. The shots to the children in the back seat came from over the left shoulder of the front passenger seat, where Kimberly was found, records show. And so far no actual evidence that might show innocence, just story after story of all the stuff they did outside (???) John List. The bleeding man told the truck driver that he believed his wife had shot him. I have no problem delving into the evidence if theres something substantial pointing to a wrongful conviction, but the vitriol and complete lack of decency I kept hearing just became too much to take. However, the case AGAINST the guy seems pretty damn strong. He did this so he could later claim Kimberly shot him and the three children before turning the gun on herself, and that he was lucky enough to be the only one to leave the SUV with his life, Mills said. The two detectives leave Vaughn in the interview room for hours between discussions, alternating between courteous questioning and intense interrogation. After she enrolled in her online class, Kimberly began to experience migraine headaches that her doctor attributed to stress. She had no idea. A documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker's family, set in lower Alabama. The Will County board denied a completion budget and appointed a local attorney. He pulled the Expedition over, got out under the guise of checking a cargo compartment on the roof of the SUV, grabbed his wife through the open passenger window, stuck a pistol under her chin and blew her brains out, Mills said. Christopher Vaughn and his family were driving from Oswego to Knights Action Park in Springfield in 2007, but they never made it. Jurors didn't buy the theory, returning guilty verdicts in September after deliberating for just 45 minutes. The CSI said he was persuaded by the physical evidence that this was a murder-suicide committed by the wife. Not buying it. I am making a list s a form of therapy. She was one of Susan's three daughters with Del, an attorney. . When the mom says one of the daughters was a lot like Kim except she was warm and loving it made me irate. Forensic evidence emerges throughout the podcast series. Maggie Murdaugh/Facebook. Friday Raffle $66,230 and Fish Fry Special, NL VFW Top List Karaoke With Cheryl in the Bar Friday. Caption: WICS. The next night, Archie and his buddies went out in search of victim number one. Watch with discovery+ 5. very fascinating. I was brought on to the case by a St. Louis criminal defense attorney with whom I had worked before. The Illinois State Police declined this month to refer questions to the FBI about the case of Christopher Vaughn, the Oswego man convicted of the murders of his wife and three children who has become the subject of a high-profile exoneration effort. They released Blackie. This led him to question the states theory that Chris had killed his family. Vaughn told him, I believe my wife just shot me. The man called 911, police were dispatched around 5:15 a.m., and they found the bodies of Vaughns family in a Ford Expedition parked in a gravel path beside a cellphone tower. He also objectedwhile the jury was out of the courtroomto photos taken of Kimberly and the children when they were still alive being shown on the screen. I came here for this!!! Police then used trickery to illicit a confession. Christopher Vaughn, of Oswego, was was sentenced to four life terms on Nov. 27, 2012, for fatally shooting his wife and three children after pulling off Interstate 55 near Channahon, Ill., in Will . There were chat messages recovered from his computer to a guy in Canada revealing he was contemplating strapping on a back pack and leaving civilization and his family to disappear into Alaskas Yukon. During a case review with investigators and the crime lab, the States Attorney stated that a womans hand would be unable to squeeze the trigger of the 9mm Taurus. 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