GUILTY IL - Kimberly Vaughn, 34, & 3 children slain, Channahon Twp, 14 June 2007

[NJUSTICE4ALL]

Hmmm... He took off a week before, to scout out his new life in Canada??? He had a $1Million policy that had a suicide clause that recently expired?? Cassandra and Blake strained in their seats before being shot... I can't imagine the terror...http://www.topix.net/wire/city/oswego-il

 

[hollyjokers]

Blood spatter expert on now - might be it before prosecution rests. Kim's blood from left nostril, mouth & chin was gravity flow. No blood spatter on her shirt. Blood drip stains on center console, Kim's seatbelt & passenger side floor where gun was found belonged to Chris Vaughn. Small blood spots on center console were wiped or smeared while still wet, but NOT by Kim.

 

[hollyjokers]

Chris' jacket had to have been in contact with source of Kim's blood for her stains to be on his jacket. - Kish

Blood drip stains on Kim's seat belt & shorts were consistent with CV. No other way for those stains to be there except source of blood was directly over those areas.

 

[hollyjokers]

Kish: KV was shot before CV was shot. She was immobile when CV's blood was dripped on her.

 

[hollyjokers]

Defense requests mistrial over statement KV shot before CV. Expert used phrase "the facts of the case are KV was shot before CV"

Mistrial denied.

 

[hollyjokers]

Kish is done, defense tried to poke some holes in the blood evidence but I think it speaks pretty loud & clear. Last witness was ISP Gary Lawson's supervisor, I think. The defense had tried to insinuate that Lawson was taken off the Vaughn case because of the way he acted on those interrogation videos. He was the guy who kept calling Vaughn "unlucky Chris." supervisor said no, Lawson was an asset. Transfer had been for other reasons.

They are done for the night. Prosecution did not rest yet.

 

[hollyjokers]

State: evidence shows that four people were shot to death inside that vehicle. Also shows only person to walk away from that scene was CV.

State rests.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

This case doesn't make any sense to me. I suppose that none of these cases make sense, but in this case, why didn't he just leave? If he didn't want to continue to be a parent and a husband, why didn't he just leave them? He could have simply divorced his wife and left.
If he was going to go live in the wilderness like a druid dude did he need big bucks to sustain that? He was going to live off the land.........what was his motivation? Why did he have to end their lives?

 

[hollyjokers]

Those questions are a big reason why a lot of us have stayed with this case all this time: Why? How do you put a gun in the face of the 8-year old mirror image of yourself & pull the trigger twice? What did he tell Kim to get her to agree to pile everyone in the car at that early hour when the kids had activities that you normally don't blow off for a spur of the moment trip, and no arrangements had been made for their pets? I suppose the money was to entice Maya to give up the pole and come away with him.

Case expected to go to jury late next week. What's the defense got up its sleeve to take that long?

 

[joe jones]

I expect they have experts who will try to explain away the blood that should not be in places it was found if it happened how he said it happened,

he is just another in a long line of men/women who murder there families and believe they are so smart they will get away with it,

 

[MagicRose99]

This case doesn't make any sense to me. I suppose that none of these cases make sense, but in this case, why didn't he just leave? If he didn't want to continue to be a parent and a husband, why didn't he just leave them? He could have simply divorced his wife and left.
If he was going to go live in the wilderness like a druid dude did he need big bucks to sustain that? He was going to live off the land.........what was his motivation? Why did he have to end their lives?

It's spelled M - O - N - E - Y.

These monsters don't want to lose money by supporting ex-wifes and children so they think it gives them a license to kill them.

:banghead:

 

[seattlechiquita]

It's spelled M - O - N - E - Y.

These monsters don't want to lose money by supporting ex-wifes and children so they think it gives them a license to kill them.

:banghead:

Before the Peterson case, I was able to read "Erased Women, Murdered Wives", which is an amazing attempt at explaining why these sickos do what they do. I highly recommend it.

 

[hollyjokers]

After the prosecution rested, lead defense attorney George Lenard went through the formality of asking Judge Daniel Rozak to find Christopher Vaughn innocent without troubling the jury with deliberations. Judge Rozak denied the motion for a directed verdict.
Lenard then launched the defense case by calling criminologist Lucien Haag to testify.
The Arizona crime expert told how he made $350 an hour for his work on the Vaughn case, and that "there's been a lot of hours" of work to bill.

http://channahon-minooka.patch.com/d/articles/prosecution-rests-in-chris-vaughn-murder-case

 

[hollyjokers]

Defense requestioned ISP Gary Lawson this morning. On cross, pros asked about stipulations CV had put on interviews, defense objected that they weren't aware of any stipulations, judge sustained, then the defense requested another mistrial after the judge refused to have the question stricken from the record.

"you can't just ask a question, have it sustained and everything is fine!"

Rachel Vaughn (CV's sister) on stand, talking about phone conversations she had with Kim two weeks prior about her anxiety & emotional outbursts. Said she "freaked out" at the kids' school. (might have been when one of the girl's arm was broken by a bully). Lots of talk about the multitude of medications she was taking or being weaned off of.

Funny, this was the only phone convo Rachel ever had with her sister-in-law in 13-odd years.

 

[hollyjokers]

The defense is out of witnesses for today, expected to wrap up "early Thursday" Scratch that, Erica Wurst must have meant early Friday, then no court until Tuesday.

 

[joe jones]

I expected the defence to be much stronger, I thought they would have at least a couple of weeks of witnesses,

I guess he won't be telling his story, he couldn't keep it straight before the trial so he would have a difficult time trying to sell his story to the jury

 

[hollyjokers]

Me too. Sounds like even their $350/hr criminologist reaffirmed most of the pros case, except for explaining the broken glass from window on driver side may not have all fallen out immediately. Can't explain away his pooled blood on/near Kim and gun. Or her blood droplets on the console being smeared within seconds.

 

[Cubby]

Looks like they meant next Thursday:

Closing arguments in the Christopher Vaughn quadruple-murder trial are expected to happen one week from today, attorneys said in court this morning.

Vaughn’s defense attorney George Lenard said he expects to finish his case on Tuesday. Prosecutors would then put on their rebuttal witnesses later Tuesday and then Wednesday, and closing arguments would start next Thursday morning.

“We are very close to the end,” Judge Daniel Rozak told jurors before dismissing them for the day late this morning

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...s-expected-in-1-week-20120913,0,4454265.story

 

[hollyjokers]

The defense is going forward with painting KV as a heavily-medicated time bomb waiting for her husband to pull off at a desolate area before going off...

The neurologist Kim had been seeing for about 17 months on stand. Kim suffered from tension headaches & occasional migraines. He prescribed the Topomax in Sep 06, followed up with her & monitored her for signs of depression. Said she was always upbeat, pleasant to talk to. Started weaning her off the Topomax in Apr 07. That was their last appt.

Reiterates no signs of depression. If someone were in the throes of a major depression, considering suicide, it would be apparent. Doesn't happen overnight.

Family practitioner, Dr. Steslow, up next. Started seeing Kim in Sept 06 for hbp. Last seen may 07 for refill of hbp rx & mentioned increased anxiety, especially around menstrual cycle. Not depressed, which is "I'm sad" having anxiety is just plain old "I'm stressed out."

Done til Tuesday.

 

[hollyjokers]

Trying to finish up a degree would stress anyone out, especially someone with 3 busy kids needing taxied to/from school & other activities, while the other parent was constantly "working late" at Scores or on a weeklong "business trip" to Canada or wherever. I don't see the defense scoring many points with this testimony, and all the discussion about headaches only makes me think of Jason Young & his earlier attempt on Michelle's life. I wouldn't put it past CV to have slipped arsenic or something into Kim's meds.