GUILTY IL - Jacob Wheeler, 22, & Jessica Evans, 17, White County, 25 Aug 2012 - #1

[88keys]

There's a lot of reasons aside from race, like height, weight, hair color. Couldn't we either list a variety of reasons instead of one?

I did. I pointed out that the guy at the door could have been taller, heavier, had gray hair and a beard, etc.

 

[88keys]

I have a very unsettling feeling that he made Jacob watch the whole thing and killed him last.

What a monster.

The report says that Jacob was killed first. He probably eliminated the bigger threat first.

 

[lillygator]

http://www.whitecountyjail.com/active.php

COSTON, DANNY K.
Age: 36
Sex: Male
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 190 lbs.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Inmate ID#: 211737

Booked: 9/1/12
Agency: WCSO


Case search name:
http://www.judici.com/courts/cases/case_search.jsp?court=IL097015J&litigant_name=Coston,+Danny+K

who is that a picture of?

There's a lot of reasons aside from race, like height, weight, hair color. Couldn't we either list a variety of reasons instead of one?

race is clearly the most easily distingishable.

so sad, rip.

what is the motive?

 

[georgiasblu]

"Bizarre and frightening". WTH is going on here? Those poor kids.

 

[concernedmother]

I just saw this and it is heart breaking. She saw him shoot Jacob so she must have knew while he was molesting her that he was going to kill her too. What a monster.

 

[Salem]

What a monster is right. Those poor kids and poor Jessi. May she and Jacob rest in peace. My heart aches for them and for their families

Salem

 

[MagnoliaMom]

I am sick to my stomach and blinking back tears. Why should our precious youth not be able to go on a camping trip, enjoy themselves and return safely? It makes me so angry that we have so many bad people in society that the good people have to constantly look over their shoulders.

How did this man slip through for this long?

May God send strength to Jessie and Jacob's families. I would be a rabid dog.

 

[mrfy07]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...5215934914.157525.299509864914&type=1&theater

A picture of him being led to the courthouse.

 

[concernedmother]

Im reading IL doesnt have the DP.

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

WHITE CO.—The 17-year-old girl who was a victim of homicide during a weekend camping and fishing trip was also sexually assaulted, according to information turned up in the investigation.

Jessica Evans was the victim of this alleged crime, this, information reveals, occurring after her boyfriend, Jacob Wheeler, 22, was shot in the head.

Information just filed in the case by White County State’s Attorney T. Scott Webb contains five separate counts of First Degree Murder of both Evans and Wheeler; two counts of Aggravated Battery with a Firearm; one count of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault; and one count of Concealing a Homicidal Death.

Danny Coston, 36, of Centerville, charged with the crimes, is scheduled to appear in front of the judge in White County this morning at 9:30. We’re here covering the hearing.

Authorities close to the investigation are characterizing the details of the crime as “bizarre” and “frightening.”

We’ll have more information as we can get it to you but for now, this is the preliminary report from court this morning.

http://www.disclosurenewsonline.com...ted-details-of-crime-are-bizarre-frightening/

Oh Jeez...

sexual assault, too!

I was so hoping this was not the case!

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

I started reading this thread sometime this afternoon, which would be Monday, 9-3-12.
This had to have been tense, it reminds me of another case when I was there through the several days. Your working relationship was great, but it must have been really difficult waiting for Jake to be found. If that guy hadn't lost his plate, who knows what would/could have happened, but, thankfully, it didn't happen that way this time.
It was my intention to refrain from comments and I did write several comments out, and then I'd just let them disappear because they weren't relevant to what happened because I knew from the beginning that Jake wasn't found alive because of the title on the thread.
It wasn't relevant what rank he could be, what rank he was, whether he was on leave or discharged. It wasn't necessary to explain how long basic training was, or how his AIT could make a difference in how long he was in training. It doesn't matter that my military training was a certain way or someone else's wasn't. It didn't need to be explained that everyone, the army, the reserve and the national guard all have the same basic training. All that mattered by the time I was reading was that the case was solved and it didn't turn out well for Jessica or Jacob. My impressions were irrelevant, because maybe there would be another time when that information would be necessary, but it wasn't now.
It does matter that courtesy is part of the SOP. TOS, whatever. It matters that intentions aren't to offend. I did want to let you all know that it must not have been easy for those of you that spent the last week working thru this case, and that I sympathize with you. I don't imagine any of you got much sleep the night they announced they had a confession and Jake wasn't all right. I did end up at the end of the thread after I'd gotten as far as the guy was arrested, so I still don't know all the details, but I didn't go thru it the way you all did. I did this in several hours. I don't think there's any one of you I didn't feel bad for, I felt like I got to know some of you as I read thru the thread.
I ended up here because I was checking on something, but once I got started reading what the thread was about, I couldn't leave. I had to know what happened. The whole thing is just so sad. So heartbreaking. One of you has a saying at the end of your posts. Something about seeing some of the worst of humanity and being able to work with some of the best of humanity with the people here. It's a good saying.

Thank you for your heart felt post, EXIA.

Actually, I do feel your particular background, as each sleuther's particular background, helps bring more insight into these cases.

sometimes it can be the so-called seemingly side information that can lead torwards solution and/or justice.

thank you so much for serving our country!

I applaud you! :seeya:

 

[SyraKelly]

I can not even imagine the terror they must have felt on that lonely road in the middle of the night....DC deserves everything he gets in prison-IMO

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...5215934914.157525.299509864914&type=1&theater

A picture of him being led to the courthouse.

At least he is not smug and smirking like some perps we have seen...

but, then again, it could be an act.

does anyone think he could have done something like this before... And not been caught?

This is is extreme... It is hard to imagine a guy with traffic violations and poaching record, albeit many, could escalate to this depravity in one night!

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

Im reading IL doesnt have the DP.

Excuse my ignorance...

What is IL and DP?

TIA:seeya:

 

[SurfieTX]

IL is Illinois, and DP is death penalty.

 

[mrfy07]

http://www.disclosurenewsonline.com...ments-infer-shooting-happened-during-assault/

WHITE CO.—While there were several present in support of Jacob Wheeler and Jessica Evans, the majority of the large courtroom


Craig Poole and Doug Maier escort Danny K. Coston to the courthouse this morning for Coston’s first advisement of charges
this morning held supporters of Danny K. Coston as Coston’s first advisement of charges went underway at about 9:32.

This fact created a palpable amount of tension and prompted a host of police officials to pull security in the courtroom, as well as to and from the jail for Coston’s walk from there to the courthouse. Coston, however was not wearing a bulletproof vest as many murder suspects have in recent cases around the area. Seven deputies and/or police officers/ISP troopers took up various positions in the courtroom when Coston was brought in.

Coston, appearing ruddy-faced, was patted on the back in what appeared to be a reassuring gesture by Sheriff Doug Maier as he ascended the couple of steps up to the area that lead to the jury box. And as Coston took his seat, a man in the crowd shouted out to him “We love you Danny! We all love you.”

That very thing was addressed by Judge Tom Sutton, however, when he took the bench.

Sutton advised that there would be no outbursts of any kind in his courtroom, and that anyone who made any kind of remark, gesture, or anything at all disruptive would be removed.

That said, Sutton read the charges to Coston, and judging by the gasps and weeping in the courtroom, it was the first time many had heard the news that there was a sexual assault charge in the midst of the murder charges.

Coston is charged with five Class M felonies of First Degree Murder in the shooting deaths of Wheeler and Evans. Class M felonies are not probationable and carry with them a sentence of 20 to 60 years in DOC each. The first count is First Degree Murder with intent to kill or do great bodily harm to Jacob Wheeler; the second count is First Degree Murder for shooting Wheeler knowing such act would cause his death; and the third count is First Degree Murder for shooting Wheeler knowing that such act created a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to Wheeler.

Count 4 is First Degree Murder in the shooting of Evans, alleging intent to kill or do great bodily harm to her; and the fifth count is First Degree Murder in the shooting of Evans knowing such act would cause her death.


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[concernedmother]

It gets worse. This says he shot her while he was raping her.

 

[concernedmother]

http://tristatehomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=541512&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook
Coston faces nine charges, including murder, sexual assault, hiding a body and battery.
Not much in the article. Has a video that looks interesting but I cant get it to play.

 

[SurfieTX]

Oh.my.God. He shot her while raping her? And then shot her 2 more times?

I have no words......

 

[concernedmother]

Oh.my.God. He shot her while raping her? And then shot her 2 more times?

I have no words......

Count 6 is perhaps the most disturbing count.

The count lists that Coston “committed the offense of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault in that he committed an act of sexual penetration (sexual intercourse) by threat of force and personally discharged a firearm during the commission of the offense, which proximately caused the death of Jessica M. Evans.”

Thats the way I understood it. How friggin crazy.