Naperville Crime
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Trial continues for man accused of killing familyAug 22, 2012 10:43 pm - Witnesses testifying at the trial of an Oswego accused of killing his wife and three children say that in the moments after the slayings he was preoccupied by damage to ...
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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...