Naperville Crime
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Peterson offered $25K to kill 3rd wife, witness testifiesAug 22, 2012 8:00 am - A witness testified at Drew Peterson’s murder trial Wednesday that the former Bolingbrook police sergeant offered him $25,000 to hire a hit man to kill his third wife ju...
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Slain wife’s father, sisters testify in Vaughn caseAug 21, 2012 9:00 pm - The trial of an Oswego man accused of killing his wife and three children continued with testimony from the woman’s father and sister. Christopher Vaughn is charged with...
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Peterson jurors wear color-coordinated outfitsAug 21, 2012 4:00 pm - There's apparently a daily color-coordination memo circulating the jury room at Drew Peterson's murder trial. Jurors hearing the case in Joliet have entered court each ...
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Judge allows evidence that Peterson sought hit manAug 21, 2012 6:00 am - The judge in Drew Peterson’s murder trial handed prosecutors a legal victory Tuesday by giving them the go-ahead to introduce evidence in coming days that the former Bol...
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Aurora man charged with money launderingAug 17, 2012 5:37 pm - An Aurora man was arrested this week on charges of laundering more than $140,000. A statewide grand jury Aug. 9 indicted Mario Alvarez-Vargas on 26 counts of unlawful st...
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Peterson judge bars hearsay testimony about alibiAug 17, 2012 11:55 am - The judge overseeing former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson’s murder trial on Friday barred important hearsay testimony meant to undercut his alibi in the deat...
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Pathologist testifies Savio was murderedAug 16, 2012 10:00 am - A forensic pathologist who performed a second autopsy on Drew Peterson’s third wife years after she was found dead in her dry bathtub testified Thursday that there’s jus...
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Peterson judge again chastises prosecutorsAug 15, 2012 7:00 am - An increasingly exasperated judge at former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson’s murder trial delivered his strongest rebuke of prosecutors yet on Wednesday after...
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Judge to rule Wednesday on Peterson mistrialAug 14, 2012 7:59 am - The judge at Drew Peterson’s murder trial on Tuesday lambasted prosecutors who for the third time in as many weeks broached a subject they were told not to mention in fr...
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Jury selection begins in 2007 family killingsAug 13, 2012 6:55 pm - Jury selection has started in Will County for the trial of an Oswego man charged with shooting to death his wife and three children five years ago. Attorneys are expect...