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Prosecutors in the Christopher Vaughn murder case have asked John Hancock Financial services to turn over information on life insurance policies held by the family in an effort to determine a motivation for the killings.

Charles Pelkie stated:

“It’s part of an exhaustive investigation of the case, but beyond that, we can’t comment,” said Charles Pelkie, spokesman for State’s Atty. James Glasgow, who is personally prosecuting the case. Source: Chicago Tribune

As we continue to follow the case, the lack of information has been interesting as the murder of the Vaughn family by the accused, Chris, has been in and out of the news systems. This is the first update in almost a month since he was extradited back to Illinois after an abortive attempt to forestall a possible death penalty.

Vaughn is accused of murdering his family in June of 2007, and we have covered this because we also had him as a boss in 2002. This is of more than passing interest to us, and our previous articles on him are:

Christopher Vaughn Comments from the gallery
One of our ex bosses is charged with killing his family part one
Christopher Vaughn

We will keep updating this as we come across new information. As the police search for a motive for something that is generally not understandable, it will be even more interesting to see what happens when this thing goes to trial. We will be covering that as well, but at the rate things are progressing, we probably won’t see a trial date until well into next year.

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