The New Year didn't start out all that great for everyone.
The New Year turned five days old today. And out of those five days, the Will County Courthouse was only open for three of them. That may not be a lot of days, but they were still action-packed and exciting. How action packed and exciting? Well, let's take a look: Are you a fan of true crime? Then come like our Facebook page.
Thankfully, it was a short week.
It was a three-day week at the Will County Courthouse, so there wasn't a lot going on. It was nice while it lasted, because that's all going to change next week, starting with Monday's sentencing hearing for quadruple-killer Christopher Vaughn. Vaughn was convicted in September of murdering his wife, 34-year-old Kimberly Vaughn, and three children—Blake, 8, Cassandra, 11, and Abigayle, 12—in June 2007. Vaughn is going to get life in prison. But that's next week. In the week that just ended, we saw Coal City woman Tiffany Unland, 30, fail to convince a judge to further reduce her bond from $120,000 to $50,000. Unland already got it lowered once from $200,000. Unland allegedly killed a Palatine man in a drunken crash on Route 6 in Channahon …
The judge in the Drew Peterson murder trial may allow testimony from a man Drew Peterson supposedly wanted to pay to find him a killer.
Prosecutors will find out Friday morning if they have recaptured vital testimony from a man who claimed Drew Peterson offered him $25,000 to find someone willing to kill his third wife, Kathleen Savio. The testimony from the alleged hitman headhunter, Jeffrey Pachter of Braidwood, looked to be lost on the very first day of Peterson's murder trial when Judge Edward Burmila ruled prosecutors goofed by failing to notify defense attorneys that he would be testifying. But the prosecution renewed their bid to get Pachter on the witness stand late Thursday and Judge Burmila said he would take the matter under consideration. Peterson supposedly made the startling offer to Pachter in late 2003. At the time, the two men were working together at a …
Ann C. Piasecki
10:33 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
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