You all remember the thread about the woman and her kids shot in the SUV and the dad with the thigh wound...
Wife shoots herself and 3 children




well, here's the update...
Man charged in deaths of wife, 3 kids - Yahoo! News

JOLIET, Ill. - A suburban Chicago man found shot near the bodies of his wife and their three children in the family sport utility vehicle earlier this month was charged Saturday in their shooting deaths.

Christopher Vaughn, 32, was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder, prosecutor James Glasgow said at a news conference in Joliet.

Missouri authorities arrested Vaughn on Saturday morning at a funeral home near St. Louis just before the scheduled start of services for 34-year-old Kimberly Vaughn and her children — Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8, Glasgow said.

Their bodies were found June 14 in a 2004 Ford Expedition parked on a service road near Interstate 55 in Channahon, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Kimberly Vaughn was shot once and the children were shot twice.

"We are hopeful Kimberly Vaughn and her three beautiful children can rest in peace," Glasgow, who declined to discuss possible motives, said on Saturday. "Everyone who came in contact with this case was moved by what they saw."

The bodies were discovered after police received a 911 call from a passer-by flagged down by Christopher Vaughn, authorities have said. A handgun was found at the scene.

Vaughn, who works as a computer forensic adviser, had been shot in the thigh and was released from a nearby hospital later that day. Police initially said he was not a suspect.

The Vaughns, who once lived in Missouri, moved from Washington state to the Chicago area about a year ago. They lived briefly in Aurora before relocating to a spacious home in Oswego.

Glasgow said he hoped Vaughn would be extradited from Missouri to Illinois soon. He said Vaughn indicated he intended to fight extradition.

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Well, it didn't surprise me!! I am glad her name is cleared. I felt so bad for her family - still do, but at least she won't be thought to be a killer now.

This story really bothered me when I read about it when it was initially posted. I couldn't believe they kept saying he wasn't a suspect. And wasn't there a huge time lapse in the time it happened and the time that he flagged someone down, like 2 hours? That poor family!

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I never doubted that it was not her. I am saddened that it was him, but relieved that she can have her name cleared even with being gone. How very sad.

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Shaking in my boots (well, if I was wearing them in the middle of summer!), but glad to be back!

Thank goodness they finally cleared her of this. But I don't think
anyone really thought it was her anyway. I just feel so bad for
her family. Their in my prayers.

The last I had heard is police took the family's cable box because of similarities
to an episode of Law and Order that was shown in May.

May the family rest in peace

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Between this and the Ohio woman -- it is just heartbreaking. What are these men thinking?

I knew it was that no good bastard, UGH!

If we take the statistics, men are much more likely to kill their partner/wife and own children than women. I think the police now state that the husband/partner isn't a suspect so they can investigate and get the man to cooperate with the investigation because he thinks he's "not a suspect." All the while, he is the MAIN suspect. What do you all think about this. There have been other recent cases in which the police state the man isn't a suspect.

I live in Chicago so this case was closely watched on all the newscasts. I told my husband it had to be him all along and I was right. His story just didn't add up and they never found gun powder on her hands.

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